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The Marriott Hotel in Prague reportedly caved to pressure from Communist China and refused to host an event from the Uyghur community.

President Joe Biden would not commit to a boycott of the Winter Olympics next year in Beijing, China, despite his administration declaring China guilty of genocide. Biden told reporters Thursday he was “considering” a diplomatic boycott.

Enes Kanter is taking LeBron James and the league to task for failing to recognize the human rights crimes of NBA’s Chinese partners.

The elected leader of East Turkistan urged President Joe Biden in remarks in Washington, DC, last week to consider a variety of actions to end the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people in that region by China, including potential military action.

Joe Biden’s White House is set to impose an empty “diplomatic” boycott of the Olympics in China by refusing to send an official delegation.

China’s Global Times propaganda outlet celebrated the over three-hour-long video call between President Joe Biden and dictator Xi Jinping on Monday as a win for China, highlighting Biden’s apparent “eagerness” to make nice with the world’s worst human rights abuser.

Mihrigul Tursun, a Uyghur Muslim woman who became an activist after multiple stays at a Chinese concentration camp, told Breitbart News the harrowing details of her torture in these facilities before escaping to the United States.

The international organization Human Rights Watch demanded in a statement on Sunday that sponsors of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics certify that and explain how their participation in the event – held in a country currently committing genocide – does not involve or enable gross human rights atrocities.

Enes Kanter has seen his playing time severely diminished after posting messages attacking NBA partner China for oppressing its peoples.

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter has revealed that the NBA threatened to ban him for wearing shoes with messages critical of China.

A study published Wednesday by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs found that the Chinese Communist Party was engaging in “daily” harassment and threats against members of the Uyghur-American community living in the United States.

Basketball player Enes Kanter of the Boston Celtics, an outspoken critic of the Chinese government for its oppression of the Uyghur Muslims, on Tuesday called Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “ruthless dictator,” referred to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a cult, and declared that Hong Kong will someday be “free” despite China’s efforts to crush democracy on the island.

Colin Kaepernick continues cashing massive checks from sportswear giant Nike, which has been accused of using Chinese slave labor.

National Basketball Association (NBA) star Enes Kanter participated in a protest against the Chinese Communist Party in Washington, DC, this weekend, urging Congress to “take tangible steps to end slavery” there.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the UK Guardian, and a non-profit group called the Investigative Reporting Project Italy published a joint investigation on Friday that found several large grocery store chains have been selling tomato products allegedly made with forced labor from the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province. 

The Chinese Foreign Ministry declared last week that Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter’s call to denounce genocide and slavery in China was “not worth refuting.”

Police in Saudi Arabia arrested an American citizen in Mecca on Wednesday for wearing a shirt reading, “Pray for the end of China’s genocide & occupation in East Turkistan,” his son, the head of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, denounced.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said, “American corporations should start getting an ethical backbone when it comes to their dealings with China.” Because “too many U.S. industries have been bending over backwards to try

Enes Kanter has again addressed Nike Owner Phil Knight asking him to stop the use of Chinese slave labor to make Nike’s products.

Enes Kanter is continuing to press sportswear giant Nike to stop its practice of employing Chinese slave labor.

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter continued his campaign against the Chinese Communist Party on Sunday with the debut of sneakers featuring images inspired by the Tiananmen Square massacre and what appears to be an illustration of himself holding the severed head of Winnie the Pooh.

NBA player Enes Kanter is doubling down on his attack on the “brutal dictators” of China, this time slamming them for oppressing the Uyghurs.

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter published a video Friday condemning “heartless dictator” Xi Jinping for the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities in western China.

Tibetan activists have been arrested after the handover of the Olympic torch to China in Greece in preparation for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing – “despite not engaging in any protest” – on Tuesday said they saw other apparently Asian people in jail arrested for no clear reason, the World Uyghur Congress denounced.

Two Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials reportedly received an education through Harvard University fellowships before overseeing what U.S. State Department labeled a genocide of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.

During an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry responded to a question on how the U.S. trades off human rights concerns with concerns about climate change with China by stating that “life is always full

Pelosi said that despite communist China’s long list of human rights abuses, the U.S. must partner with them to fight climate change.

Australia’s Curtin University on Wednesday requested the retraction of a 2018 research study, partly funded by the Chinese government and conducted by a former Curtin faculty member, that helped the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) refine the facial-recognition software it employs to keep the oppressed Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province under surveillance.

Five German retailers have been accused of profiting off slave labour in the concentration camp region of Xinjiang by the ECCHR on Monday. 

A key Japanese advocate for human rights in China – and leader in calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics – told Breitbart News this week that, in addition to governments and Olympic sponsors, high-profile Japanese athletes should use their platforms to denounce the ongoing genocide of ethnic minorities in the country.

Communist China has made no great secret of its lust for Afghanistan’s natural resources, or its belief that the Taliban conquest will bring a gruesome stability to that fractious and tribal nation.

A Taliban spokesman on Monday welcomed the friendship and cooperation of China, which he said was “expected” to “play its role” in strengthening and enriching the Taliban regime.

The leader of the exiled government of East Turkistan – the western, largely Uyghur-populated region China refers to as Xinjiang – told Breitbart News this weekend that China takes its friendship with the Taliban “very seriously,” as it could soon help lead to Beijing establishing a “strong foothold” in the Persian Gulf.

Participation, by countries and sponsors both, in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is “indefensible” in light of the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing genocide against the ethnic Uyghur people and other Muslim-majority minorities of East Turkestan, the World Uyghur Congress told Breitbart News.

The CEO of Open Doors USA, a human rights organization that focuses on lending aid to persecuted Christians around the world, urged corporate sponsors of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to reconsider their ties to the event.

Pakistan has played a critical role over many years in helping China suppress the Uyghur expat community within its borders as Beijing orchestrates the ethnic group’s genocide in its northwestern Xinjiang province, according to an August report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs.