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Friday, 04 February 2022


** Will athletes risk the wrath of Beijing to stand up for human rights?
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Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire/PA Image

The Olympic Games have a history of protest, but China is going out of its way to stop that. With growing concern over the Uyghurs and Hong Kong, Mark Frary looks at how likely it is to win. Read the story here ([link removed]) .
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** Ukraine journalists fight battle on all fronts
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Photo: Oleksandr Polonskyi/Shutterstock

While media crews from around the world are arriving in Ukraine to cover the situation amid a build-up of Russian troops on Ukraine’s border, local journalists are trying to overcome the many obstacles that stand in the way of their media freedom. Journalists in Ukraine operate in a harsh environment and as tensions with Russia build, the grave situation demands attention, writes Vitalii Atanasov ([link removed]) .
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** Beijing Olympics: Support the sport but remember the persecuted
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Beijing is not an acceptable place to host the Winter Olympics. To give credibility to a regime that is murdering its citizens because of their faith and detaining others because they engage in democratic protest or dare to document events as journalists, writes our CEO Ruth Smeeth ([link removed]) in her weekly blog post.

She argues while this is not a regime that warrants global celebration we should not boycott the event.


** No corruption please, we’re British
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Photo: Jason Cairnduff/PA Wire/PA Images

The UK has developed a parallel vocabulary to avoid labelling anyone with the c-word … until now, says Oliver Bullough ([link removed])
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