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AUG 20, 2008
IOC Says Wants to See Beijing Protest Parks Used
Reuters
The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday it would have liked to see protesters actually use designated protest parks during the Beijing Games. Not a single permit for the 77 protest applications has been issued by Chinese authorities.
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AUG 20, 2008
Chinese Pensioners Punished After Applying to Protest
The Daily Telegraph
Two Chinese pensioners who applied for the right to demonstrate in the "protest pens" at the Beijing Olympics have been sentenced to a one-year term of "Re-education through Labour", a leading Chinese human rights groups has said.
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AUG 20, 2008
Too Old and Frail to Re-educate? Not in China
The New York Times
In the annals of people who have struggled against Communist Party rule, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying are unlikely to merit even a footnote. The two women, both in their late 70s, have never spoken out against China’s authoritarian government. Both walk with the help of a cane, and Ms. Wang is blind in one eye. Their grievance, receiving insufficient compensation when their homes were seized for redevelopment, is perhaps the most common complaint among Chinese displaced during the country’s long streak of fast economic growth. But the Beijing police still sentenced the two women to an extrajudicial term of “re-education through labor” this week for applying to hold a legal protest in a designated area in Beijing, where officials promised that Chinese could hold demonstrations during the Olympic Games.
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AUG 18, 2008
The Dark Story Behind China’s Gold Medals
The Epoch Times
Chinese athletes continue to take top honors in the Beijing Olympics, but it isn’t merely the product of talent and training. The Chinese communist regime is a driving force behind the country’s gold medal wins, and evidence reveals that the regime has used its totalitarian rule to divert vast amounts of the nation’s wealth, shown utter disregard for their athletes’ health and have relied heavily on steroid use in order to gain Olympic gold.
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AUG 17, 2008
A Wrong Theme For the Beijing Olympics
Sudan Tribune
"One World, One Dream" as the theme for the Beijing Olympics, though only in words, is as beautiful as the Bird’s Nest Stadium where the ceremony for the world sports was officially opened; but ironically it reflects exactly the opposite of what China portrays in the world. Unless the theme is confined to suit sports only, there is no way one would believe that China could both be a perpetrator of love and peace and at the same time the mentor behind the war and genocide in Darfur. This proved beyond all doubt that China has opened its doors for the world’s Olympics not in beautiful colors but also in forms of an attractive wording to make up a theme that will put a curtain on the face of the world.
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