‘No genocide games’: Activists protest torch-lighting for 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Published October 18, 2021 2:23pm ET



Several human rights activists attempted to sneak onto the site of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics flame-lighting ceremony in protest of the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the treatment of Uyghurs.

Protesters carrying banners breached the private event in Olympia, Greece, with at least three individuals successfully sneaking onto the site. The group displayed their banner reading “No genocide games” while waving a Tibetan flag before security intervened.

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