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In a news release,March 1,2001
Tibet's government in exile
argues that awarding the Olympics
to Beijing would be a vote for
human rights abuse.
Giving China the 2008 Olympic Games
constitutes a total lack of sensitivity
and regard for the suffering of millions
of Chinese,Tibetans, Uighurs and Mongolians.
Tibet has backed up it's case with an
exhaustive list of repressive policies in
China, including restrictions on religious
freedom and the freedom of association,
as well as arbitrary executions and the
banning of labour unions.
The final vote by the IOC will be in July
Tibetan exiles oppose China's Olympic bid (AFP) Remembering The New York based group
Human Rights in China
reported back in 1995 that
Mr Liu Xiaobo
a leading literary critic
Mr Wang Xizhe
a veteran activist
Mr Huang Xiang
poet and activist
and his wife
Ms Zhang Lin had been arrested.
Another activist
Mr Deng Huanwu was taken from
his home in the city of
Chongqing.
Yet another activist who had
been jailed
Mr Liu Nianchun was reported
to have been banished from the
capital. | 
