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Rights group urges Beijing Games sponsors to press China on Xinjiang
New York-based Human Rights Watch today criticised corporations sponsoring the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics for ignoring what it says are China's crimes against humanity in its far western region of Xinjiang.
The group said in an online news conference that major sponsors of the Feb 4-20 Winter Olympics should press China's government and the International Olympics Committee (IOC) on the host nation's human rights violations...
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