Niall Couper, With the 2008 Olympic games being held in Beijing, are Amnesty planning on using the extra worldwide attention this will bring to highlight Chinese human rights policies or lack thereof, and if so, how?
Asked by lucylodge on Nov 26 2007 3:13:28 PM and supported by 16 members
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Amnesty is using the Beijing Olympics to call on the Chinese authorities to honour the promises they made when bidding for the Olympics, that they would improve human rights. Around the world Amnesty is focusing on four key areas: restrictions on media freedom, fair trials, persecution of human rights defenders (activists, lawyers etc) and use of the death penalty. We have produced a Media Kit for journalists going to the Games and in 2008 will release a Visitors Kit so anyone going to Beijing can 'know before they go'. And you can expect something big from us to mark the 4 June anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.