News Analysis Over the past year, leading up to the Winter Olympics, the Chinese regime has been intensifying its campaign against religion, particularly Islam, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity, and Falun Gong. “Don’t sportswash genocide,” read the signs held by Olympic protesters in London, who were enraged that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had granted hosting rights to China, despite genocide being committed against Uyghur Muslims. On Feb. 3, the day before the opening ceremony of the Games, Tibetans led a protest outside of the IOC headquarters in Switzerland. In China, arrests of Falun Gong adherents increased ahead of the Olympics, especially in the three sites where the Games were held—Beijing, Yanqing (a rural district in Beijing), and Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province, according to Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that tracks the persecution. In its 2021 report on religious freedom in China, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recommended that Washington “redesignate …