Winter Olympics top sponsors ‘silent’ over China’s human rights record

Human Rights Watch says it only received one reply after writing to 13 companies involved in Beijing GamesCorporate sponsors of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have been accused of “squandering the opportunity” to pressure China to address its “appall…

Human Rights Watch says it only received one reply after writing to 13 companies involved in Beijing Games

Corporate sponsors of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have been accused of “squandering the opportunity” to pressure China to address its “appalling human rights record”.

The Games’ top level sponsors, including Coca-Cola, Airbnb, Procter & Gamble, Intel and Visa, were on Friday accused of ignoring China’s alleged “crimes against humanity against Uyghurs” and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang as well the repression of free speech in Hong Kong.

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