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Jan 25 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
#Beijing’s Olympics are not business as usual. They take place against a backdrop of Chinese government crimes against humanity targeting ethnic Uyghurs, repression in Hong Kong and Tibet, and risks to athletes unprecedented in the modern Olympic era.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom, China remains the worst jailer of journalists in the world for the third straight year.

cpj.org/reports/2021/1…
Athletes participating in the #Beijing2022 games will be surveilled, and their rights to free speech and protest severely curtailed.

Yang Shu, deputy director general of the #Beijing2022 Organizing Committee, warned all athletes against speaking out: “Any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit – especially against the Chinese laws and regulations – are also subject to certain punishment.”
It's the kind of threat against athletes that should send a chill down the spine of the International Olympic Committee (@IOCmedia)...

If only the IOC had a spine.

theguardian.com/sport/2022/jan…
The Chinese government’s threat is real, coming soon after one of China’s best-known athletes & Olympians, Peng Shuai, was silenced after making a sexual assault complaint against a former top Chinese government and Olympics official on social media.
hrw.org/news/2021/11/1…
That the IOC has done nothing but help #China use the games to sportswash the country's appalling human rights record may not be very surprising, but the IOC's complete disregard for Olympic athletes' rights is still shocking.
The IOC says that the Olympics “celebrate humanity.” But even before the athletes arrive, it's clear #Beijing is intent on celebrating inhumanity by denying them their basic rights - and the IOC is going along with it.
hrw.org/news/2022/01/2…
What's happening in #China is appalling, and no stadium, no #Olympics games and no PR support from the IOC changes that.

We must not let the world forget the brutality of this regime.

hrw.org/tag/beijing-wi…

The IOC (@iocmedia) says it’s committed to human rights. Yet it ignores serious violations by #China's authorities, including #CrimesAgainstHumanity...

#Beijing2022

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Jan 26
#Poland's year of fear: Who will die next in abortion crackdown?

Urszula Grycuk of @federapl in @euobs today.

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One year after the ruling by #Poland’s discredited Constitutional Tribunal banning access to abortion in almost all circumstances took effect, it has had a devastating impact on the lives of women.

Read more: hrw.org/news/2022/01/2… Image
Since the ruling took effect on 27 January 2021, more than 1,000 women have turned to the European Court of Human Rights in an effort to vindicate their rights, challenging #Poland’s highly restrictive abortion law and seeking justice.
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Jan 26
Twitter Poll:

WHY is the EU blocking wider vaccine production of vaccines globally & thus prolonging the pandemic for everyone?

WHY are they subjecting the world to more death & suffering and giving the virus more time to create new variants?
Background reading threads on all three:

Profits over humanity:

Millions will die for a few new football pitches in Mainz, Germany:

Neocolonialism:
Welcome to our future, thanks to the EU, UK and Switzerland, which continue to throttle vaccine production globally by obstructing the #TRIPSwaiver at the WTO. Image
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Jan 25
If you still think that vaccine donations are going to reach in time the billions of people in poorer countries who haven't had one dose yet, and thus end the global pandemic for all of us, you are either living on another planet, or you're hoodwinked by the EU Commission's lies.
The most powerful line from this report may be this:

"We were misled – down the garden path – we got to December believing the world was coming together around vaccines, not knowing that we got corralled into a little corner while others run off and secure the supplies." Image
Report: "...there is a more insidious consequence of the overreliance on donations: it reinforces neo-colonial power dynamics & an outdated charity model, leaving low-income countries’ ability to vaccinate their populations dependent on the 'generosity' of wealthy countries."
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Jan 25
Who’s a more dangerous anti-vaxer?

An individual who refuses to get the jab?

Or the EU that prevents billions of people from getting jabs by blocking wider vaccine production during a global pandemic?

hrw.org/news/2021/12/0…
If some EU member states are now fining people who refuse to get vaccinated, how much should the EU Commission be fined for preventing billions of people from getting vaccinated? 🤔
Some people I know express serious anger about the anti-maskers & anti-vaxers, and yes, I can understand that: their refusal to do the right thing endangers others.

But the damage those individuals do pales in comparison to that of the EU's policy of choking vaccine production.
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Jan 23
In blocking wider vaccine production globally, EU & UK take a neocolonialist approach to the pandemic, saying:

❗️ we're in charge;

❗️ we decide who lives & dies;

❗️ we may give you some charity later if we feel generous & if you behave.

It’s arrogant & self-destructive.
From the beginning, the EU & UK have been blocking wider vaccine production globally by obstructing the #TRIPSwaiver, a proposal at the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive some intellectual property rules on vaccines & other health products.
EU & UK leaders have adopted this policy to boost pharma monopoly profits.

They know it will prolong the pandemic & lead to more deaths & suffering.

They know it gives more time for new variants to emerge.

But profits come first, so the policy is: enforce vaccine shortage.
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Jan 22
It's not that our "leaders" are failing as politicians; it's that they are failing as human beings.
"Exhibit A" for me would be the moral disaster that is the European Commission. Here are just a few reasons why. (There are many more: I could make this thread 50 tweets long, at least.)
"Exhibit B" today would be this from the UN "leadership". I mean, why would anyone in such a position not raise (and condemn) mass atrocity crimes? How broken does your moral compass have to be to dodge that responsibility?

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