This blog was on symbolic hiatus on Friday, 8 August 2008, the date of the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics, to protest the betrayal, by the morally defective International Olympic Committe and its myopic apologists, of the core principles of freedom of thought — including speech, press and religion — enjoyed and held dear by all the free peoples of the world.
For extended coverage, see Reporters Without Borders.
Some informative links:
Two Women Sentenced to “Re-education” in China
U.S. Activists Detained After Lighting Up “Free Tibet” Banner Near Olympics Site
China Jams Foreign Radio Coverage of the Olympics
Olympic Sponsors Ignore Human Rights Abuses
China Rejects All Protest Permit Requests
The lastest from Index on Censorship here.
View a virtual protest on the Internet.
A chronology of China’s crackdown on Olympics-related dissent from Index on Censorship.
Recent items regarding China’s despicable record concerning the Olympics:
–China Revokes Darfur Activist’s Visa to Olympics
Previous Posts by Me:
–China’s Bloodstained Olympic Torch
–“China is Still a Dictatorship” Fact of the Day (Forced Evictions)
–“China is Still a Dictatorship” Fact of the Day (Limits on Bibles)
