26 août 2004 05:43
Another gold medal for China... this one from Reporters without borders
Isabelle Hontebeyrie
RWB just gave a gold medal to China for human rights violations.
China's repression of dissidents, including journalists and cyber-dissidents, has not let up during these games. The People's Republic of China is the world's biggest prison for the press. Twenty-seven journalists and more than 60 Internet users are detained for crimes of opinion.
The leading journalist Cheng Yizhong has been detained without trial for the past five months for reporting a suspected case of SARS and the death of student while being tortured in a police station in Guangzhou. Two of his colleagues have been sentenced to six and eight years in prison for the same reason.
The next Olympic Games will open in Beijing four years from now. China is already far from keeping its promises to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), especially its undertakings about the free flow of information. The IOC must do everything possible to get Beijing to respect basic freedoms, or else the Olympic spirit will be badly trampled on as it was already at the Moscow Games in 1980. Dozens of countries boycotted those games and the political police arrested hundreds of dissidents.
After waging a campaign against Beijing's successful bid to host the next Olympics, Reporters Without Borders has launched www.boycottbeijing2008.net to rally opinion against the Chinese Communist Party's dictatorship.
You can't argue about that: China did earn its gold medal!
PS: French and Spanish versions
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Not that Im complaining but why is it that many female atheletes, particularly in track and field
(not to mention Beach Volleyball which was meant to be a sexy showing) insist on bare midriff outfits and almost bikini bottems. Is it to be sexy or is there some other reason that I am missing. Mind you- no complaints, just curiousity
Posted by/Écrit par: Curious
Not that Im complaining but why is it that many female atheletes, particularly in track and field
(not to mention Beach Volleyball which was meant to be a sexy showing) insist on bare midriff outfits and almost bikini bottems. Is it to be sexy or is there some other reason that I am missing. Mind you- no complaints, just curiousity
Posted by/Écrit par: Curious
True. But then, just think that if the IOC refused to award medals to participants from countries where people are detained illegally, 139 medals would have to be stripped from athletes from the US, China and Cuba, to name only those three.
Posted by/Écrit par: Benoit