{"id":454921,"date":"2022-01-02T17:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/jan\/02\/tory-to-lead-boycott-of-coca-cola-over-role-in-beijing-winter-olympics"},"modified":"2022-01-02T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T17:43:49","slug":"tory-peer-to-lead-boycott-of-coca-cola-over-role-in-beijing-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/02\/tory-peer-to-lead-boycott-of-coca-cola-over-role-in-beijing-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory peer to lead boycott of Coca-Cola over role in Beijing Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: sponsorship unacceptable given concern about human rights in China, says Robert Hayward<\/p><p>A Tory peer has vowed to lead a boycott of Coca-Cola products over the company\u2019s sponsorship of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, saying its bid to profit from an event organised by the Chinese government was shameless.<\/p><p>Robert Hayward, who was a founding chairman of the world\u2019s first gay rugby club and a former personnel manager for Coca-Cola Bottlers, said it was unacceptable for firms to help to boost the use of the Winter Games as a propaganda exercise given concerns over the treatment of 1 million Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang province.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/jan\/02\/tory-to-lead-boycott-of-coca-cola-over-role-in-beijing-winter-olympics\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/jan\/02\/tory-to-lead-boycott-of-coca-cola-over-role-in-beijing-winter-olympics\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: sponsorship unacceptable given concern about human rights in China, says Robert HaywardA Tory peer has vowed to lead a boycott of Coca-Cola products over the company\u2019s sponsorship of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, saying its bid to profit from a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,923,190,8951,2816,3385,6,1331,640,14,2030,1314,1641,40291,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454922,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454921\/revisions\/454922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}