While more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities suffer mass detention, forced labor and torture in Xinjiang in western China, many of the world’s greatest athletes competed in Beijing at the...
Emulating the Palestinians to Advocate Internationally for Taiwan and to Counter China
It would create a diplomatic crisis, which should be the last thing the Xi regime wants.
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While a full boycott would unfairly punish American athletes, there are other measures Washington should take.
The two leaders stressed the strength of their relationship and vowed to protect each other’s interests.
If the United States wants to send a message regarding China not only to Beijing but also to the international community, then America must first stand with Enes Kanter.
Hamid Sajjadi, Iran’s recently appointed minister of sports, warned Iranian athletes in August not to compete against counterparts from the “child-killing and occupying regime of Israel.” With the...
This Sunday, September 12, will mark one year since Iran’s clerical regime executed the champion Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari for expressing opposition to the religious dictatorship in Iran. His...
A defector from the Islamic Republic displayed a picture of Afkari attached to a flag: 'We’ll always commemorate him'
The Olympics delivers to China’s door some of the most genetically blessed people on the planet. A February 2021 report by the US’ National Counterintelligence and Security Center described China’s...
There are growing calls to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing or to relocate the event to a different nation. It isn’t hard to see why, given China’s aggression in the Indo-Pacific region, horrific...
The CAS ruling sends the wrong message to Tehran. The principles of the Olympic Charter and the lives of Iranian athletes ought to compel more than this.
Excerpt In late January, the Islamic Republic executed a second young Iranian wrestler as part of its campaign against dissent. Mehdi Ali Husseini, who was just 29 years old, was killed only four months...
The Islamic Republic of Iran imposed yet another extrajudicial death penalty on a champion athlete last week, sparking renewed calls from sports advocacy organizations for the regime to be banned from...
Execution of decorated wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini is imminent