The US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report 2006 has blacklisted China as a serious violator of religious freedom. Christians, Uighurs, Tibetan monks/nuns and especially the Falun Gong have been hit the hardest.It's time to urge the IOC to relocate the 2008 Beijing Olympics--it's obvious that China is not willing to improve its human rights record before the Games--quite the opposite is happening.
Religious Deterioration is Reason to Reject China's Olympic Bid
Freedom House Center director Nina Shea said: "Memories of the Olympics in Nazi Berlin continue to cast a shadow over the Games. The Olympics would again be dishonored by the scandal of holding the prestigious events in a country where "unapproved" houses of worship are routinely bulldozed, grandmothers and priests are bludgeoned to death for religious practices, and religious people are sent to labor camp by the tens of thousands."
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