{"id":1224253,"date":"2022-01-19T10:53:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224253"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:53:42","slug":"olympic-athletes-warned-against-mentioning-chinas-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olympic-athletes-warned-against-mentioning-chinas-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Athletes Warned Against Mentioning China\u2019s Human Rights Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Folympic-athletes-warned-against-mentioning-chinas-human-rights-violations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Athletes traveling to Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics were warned against speaking out about China\u2019s human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/athletes-warned-against-speaking-up-human-rights-beijing-games-2022-01-18\/\">reported<\/a> that the warning came for the athletes\u2019 \u201cown safety by speakers at a seminar hosted by Human Rights Watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s really not much protection that we believe is going to be afforded to athletes,\u201d Rob Koehler, the director general of the Global Athlete group, said during the seminar, according to Reuters. \u201cSo we\u2019re advising athletes not to speak up. We want them to compete and use their voice when they get home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outlet noted that Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter says that \u201cno kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rule is selectively enforced, as evidenced by who was allowed to protest during the Summer Olympics in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/2022\/01\/19\/china-winter-olympics-politics-speech\/\">reported<\/a> that a member of China\u2019s Olympics organizing committee has also warned athletes that they could be punished for saying things that violate Chinese law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny expression that is in line with the Olympic spirit I\u2019m sure will be protected,\u201d Yang Shu, deputy director general of international relations for the Beijing Organizing Committee, said during a press conference on Tuesday. \u201cAny behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit, especially against the Chinese laws and regulations, are also subject to certain punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s rule appears to go further than the International Olympic Committee\u2019s (IOC) Rule 50 by including \u201cspeech\u201d rather than just demonstrations, and it is unclear how the rule will be enforced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn China, critics of the government have routinely been sentenced to prison for staging political protests, or for comments they made on social media. While it\u2019s unlikely Beijing would risk international ire to severely punish an athlete at the Olympics for speech, Yang declined to answer on Tuesday what the maximum punishment could be for political demonstration at the Games,\u201d The Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s repression of athletes who speak out against the regime came to a head late last year when Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai made sexual assault allegations against a Chinese official and then disappeared for weeks, later emerging and claiming everything was fine and denying ever making the allegations, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/peng-shuai-denies-ever-making-sexual-assault-allegations-wta-continues-to-call-for-a-full-fair-and-transparent-investigation\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to emphasize one thing that is very important,\u201d Peng&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/20\/tennis\/peng-shuai-retracts-sexual-assault-allegations-intl-hnk\/index.html\">said<\/a> in December. \u201cI have never spoken or written about anyone sexually assaulted me. This point is very important to be emphasized clearly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, it\u2019s my personal privacy,\u201d she continued. \u201cThere possibly has been a lot of misunderstanding. Therefore, there should not be such distorted interpretation here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA), which suspended its tournaments in China over concerns about Peng\u2019s safety, was not satisfied with her comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain steadfast in our call for a full, fair and transparent investigation, without censorship, into her allegation of sexual assault, which is the issue that gave rise to our initial concern,\u201d the WTA&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/dec\/20\/peng-shuai-appearance-fails-to-address-concerns-for-tennis-stars-wellbeing-says-wta\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in a statement in December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was again good to see Peng Shuai in a public setting and we certainly hope she is doing well,\u201d the WTA said. \u201cAs we have consistently stated, these appearances do not alleviate or address the WTA\u2019s significant concerns about her wellbeing and ability to communicate without censorship or coercion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes traveling to Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics were warned against speaking out about China\u2019s human rights violations. Reuters reported that the warning came for the athletes\u2019 \u201cown safety by speakers at a seminar hosted by Human Rights Watch.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s really not much protection that we believe is going to be afforded to athletes,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}