China: The Olympic countdown - three years of human rights reform?

China: The Olympic countdown - three years of human rights reform?

Index Number: ASA 17/021/2005
Date Published: 4 August 2005
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, China

In three years, the Olympic Games will begin in Beijing. Amnesty International is calling on the Chinese authorities to make good on their promise to improve the human rights situation in their country if China were chosen to host the 2008 Games. Despite promises, serious violations of human rights continue in China such as the forcible eviction of thousands of Beijing residents from their homes and intensified suppression of groups that the authorities fear may embarrass the nation during the Games.