Tibetan monk Golog Jigme holds a Tibetan flag during protests outside the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games Bid presentation at the Palace hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland June 10, 2015. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich/Files
BERLIN (Reuters) - A group of rights activists have called on the International Olympic Committee not to award the 2022 winter Games to Beijing saying China's human rights record had worsened since the 2008 Olympics in the Chinese capital.
Chinese, Uighur, Mongolian and Tibetan activists said in an open letter to the IOC it should not "make the same mistake" by awarding the Olympics to Beijing as there was no improvement of human rights in the country since.
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