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#WhiteTerror Spreads to #Sport Sector: Pro-China Legislator Condemns Hong Kong Athletes

Source: InMedia #Jun18

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#WhiteTerror Spreads to #Sport Sector: Pro-China Legislator Condemns Hong Kong Athletes

According to Hong Kong's Chief Executive #CarrieLam, the SAR Government had purchased the broadcasting rights for the #Tokyo #OlympicGames, and arranged for five TV stations to broadcast.

In the panel meeting on Home Affairs at the Legislative Council (#LegCo), athletes representative of Hong Kong were, however, attacked by the pro-Beijing DAB party.

For instance, Leung Che-cheung, a #DAB member, criticized the Hong Kong Ladies’ Foil Team members, for reportedly hand signing the pro-democracy “Five Demand, Not One Less” slogan during the 2019 World Cup.

The pro-China legislator comdemns it as an action "against the Government".

Leung continued to ask the Government to follow up with this matter.

Concuring with Leung, the Government's Commissioner for Sports Yeung Tak-keung claimed that “politics should be separated from sports”.

Yeung said that athletes must sign a guideline before participating in competitions, and should not express political demands on the Olympic occasions. Yeung emphasized that there is any violation, the game would be suspended and the personnel would be penalized.

Source: InMedia #Jun18
https://bit.ly/3gCIbV4

#HomeAffairs #FreeSpeech #NationalTeam
Two activists, Tibetan student and exiled Hong Kong activist, arrested in Athens for protesting against Beijing Winter Olympics

Greek police detained two women, 18-year-old Tibetan student Tesla Zoksang and 22-year-old exiled Hong Kong activist Joey Siu, after they attempted to hang banners from the Acropolis in Athens in protest at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics.

They deployed a Tibetan flag and a banner of “Free Hong Kong, Revolution Now”, and chanted slogans including “Free Tibet”, “Boycott Beijing 2022”, and “No freedom, no Games.”

The Olympic flame for the 24th Winter Games will be lit at Ancient Olympia on Monday and handed over to China at a ceremony in Athens' Panathenian Stadium on Tuesday. The International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board met in Athens on Saturday.

source: ABC News #Oct17

https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/arrested-athens-protesting-beijing-olympics-80628356

#BoycottBeijing2022 #Athens #FreeTibet #FreeHK #OlympicGames
Canadian and Taiwanese Artists Uses Music and Drawings to Show their Support on Human Rights

#BeijingWinterOlympics has begun since #Feb04 with boycotts voices circulating the world.

Some artists show their dissatisfaction with #HumanRightsViolation in China with paintbrushes and music notes. A Canadian painter creates "Genocide Games" to mock Beijing Winter Olympic while a Taiwanese band composes "The Times Looking After the Righteous (#時代看顧正義的人)" to criticise dictatorship.

Both works show support to the belief in democracy and freedom.

The Canadian artist, Ricker Choi, is originally from Hong Kong but emigrated to Canada when he was 13. Yet, he is always concerning the situation in Hong Kong. Ricker has created lots of artworks since 2019, supporting Hong Kong democracy movements.

When the winter Olympics was approaching, his heart was filled with emotions. As a result, he picked up his pen and produced a picture "#GenocideGames".

Ricker said, "China claimed to improve the human rights issues in 2008 #OlympicGames, to be free, democratic and open. In fact, the reality is, however, the opposite. They suppress #Uyghurs and #Tibetans, persecuting Hong Kong, threatening Taiwan. Letting them host the Olympic Games again is the greatest sarcasm."

Ricker Choi's Twitter post:
https://twitter.com/RickerChoi/status/1478919590520438785

Source: RFA #Jan17

https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/gangtai/lf-01172022161411.html?encoding=traditional

#Genocide