As the Olympic Games begin, Amnesty International's report shows that the Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country’s human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics.
Foreign journalists working from the Olympics press centre in Beijing are unable to access amnesty.org, as Amnesty International prepares to launch a new report evaluating the
Chinese authorities’ human rights performance in the run-up to the Games.
The Chinese authorities say they will now not free the housing rights activist when his four-year prison sentence expires on 26 July. Amnesty International demands he be freed.
Amnesty International has launched a new website for people to have
their say about the human rights situation in China in the countdown to
the Beijing Olympics.
Thousands of Amnesty International supporters from around the world teamed up with Circle Up Now, to create large images on the ground which are only fully visible from above.
On the eve of the anniversary of Beijing being granted the 2008
Olympics, thousands of Amnesty International supporters in over 20
locations across the world will team up with Circle Up
Now to create visual representations of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR).
As the Olympic torch relay travels to Lhasa, Amnesty International
urged the Chinese government to provide information about those
detained during the protests last March and called
for free access to Tibet by independent observers.
