Human rights in China: Broken promises

A new report by Amnesty international confirms that the Chinese authorities “failed to fulfil their own commitments to improve human rights”:
With the Olympics less than two weeks away, it is time to assess progress made by the Chinese authorities to improve human rights in line with their own commitments made in 2001. This report provides [...]

Stop the world record of executions!

Stop the world record of executions.
China holds the current world record of executions with executing 1,010 people of 1,591 confirmed executions worldwide.
Although the Beijing Olympic committee declared that hosting the Olympics will ‘help the development of human rights in China’.
Join the fight against death penalty. www.amnesty.hu

Networks, Olympics organizers clash

via AP:
Television networks that will broadcast the Beijing Olympics to billions around the world are squaring off with local organizers over stringent security that threatens coverage of the games in two months. Differences over a wide range of issues – from limits on live coverage in Tiananmen Square to allegations that freight shipments of TV [...]

Jacques Rogge against a “better world”?

The Economist blog “Certain ideas of Europe” describes the China argumentation of IOC boss Jacques Rogge. His defensive approach can be summarised with the following statements: “be reasonable, old chap, what can we do?” and “we don’t do politics but things are much better than you think” combined with some claims about the successes [...]

Beijing 2008 – The truth about the logo

Thanks to osocio we came across this alternative logo for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing! The left picture shows the official logo and on the the right you can see the [...]