China’s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics has sparked backlash from many who say the government’s countless human rights abuses warrant a boycott.
The communist country’s internment of more than a million Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic group from northwest China, is at the forefront of international scrutiny. Many Uyghurs who have escaped the Chinese government have described family members being taken away to concentration camps, forced sterilization and labor, and other atrocities.
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Other abuses include the government’s snuffing out of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019. Students and residents from across the semi-autonomous city-state fought tooth and nail in the streets against riot police while protesting an extradition bill that would have allowed political dissidents in Hong Kong to be extradited to China to stand trial.
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China is also accused of keeping the international community, not to mention its own citizens, in the dark at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and not being transparent about the virus’s severity or transmissibility.
Chinese officials have denied claims that it is conducting a genocide despite video evidence of the camps being widely reported in the West.
