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Winter Olympics top sponsors ‘silent’ over China’s human rights record
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theguardian.comCorporate sponsors of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have been accused of “squandering the opportunity” to pressure China to address its “appalling human rights record”.
The Games’ top level sponsors, including Coca-Cola, Airbnb, Procter & Gamble, Intel and Visa, were on Friday accused of ignoring China’s alleged “crimes against humanity against Uyghurs” and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang as well the repression of free speech in Hong Kong.
Human Rights Watch (HWR), the New York-based campaign group, said it had written to all 13 of the Olympics top corporate partners questioning their involvement in the Beijing Games. But only one sponsor, German financial services firm Allianz, replied.
“There are just three months until the Beijing 2022
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