Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) insisting the 2022 Olympics be moved out of Beijing due to gross human rights violations in the China. Steel told The Epoch Times: “[In China,] you can see lots of victims. They have human rights abuses, and they’re going after the Uyghur [Muslims], and actually they are taking children away without their parents’ consent and putting them into orphanages. They’re putting Uyghur members into labor camps, and there’s a lot of torture, abuse, and organ harvesting, and censorship.” The letter, sent March 19 and addressed to Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, argued that the stated goal of the Olympics is to promote “a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.” Yet the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is responsible for the violent repression of dissenting minorities and of civil liberties …
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