China is increasingly being sidelined for its human rights record, with the West supporting sports starts who speak their mind about it
mobile game, the title’s China distributor has said, as the fallout builds over his criticism of the country’s treatment of its Uighur minority.zil from the game due to his “extreme comment about China”.zil, a German national of Turkish origin, condemned China’s crackdown on Muslim minorities in the western region of Xinjiang in a tweet last Friday and criticised Muslim countries for failing to speak up about the alleged abuses.
Meanwhile, German Bundesliga club FC Cologne pulled out of a football academy in China, citing a re-evaluation of “resources and priorities”. But senior official Stefan Mueller-Roemer, a former club president and now head of the fan council, told local newspaper Klner Stadt-Anzeiger that “we don’t need China in sport”, charging that “human rights are massively disrespected” in the country.
Rights groups and experts say more than 1-million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been incarcerated, part of a long-term government response to tame years of persistent violent unrest against Beijing’s control of Xinjiang.zil had tweeted in Turkish: “Qurans are being burnt ... Mosques are being shut down ... Muslim schools are being banned ... Religious scholars are being killed one by one ... Brothers are forcefully being sent to camps.
China at first denied that the camps existed but later acknowledged them as foreign pressure grew, saying they were vocational training centres.
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