Organization demands resignation of IOC President Bach

The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded the resignation of the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and thinks due to the ongoing human rights violations, no Olympic Games should be held in China. During an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio, Wenzel Michalski, Human Rights Watch director for Germany, said: “If even the business community is now demanding that the human rights violations in Xinjiang should also be denounced by companies, then by now it should be clear to Mr. Bach and the others that their time has come.”

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