Sponsors Asked to Defend Support for Beijing Winter Olympics

Sponsors Asked to Defend Support for Beijing Winter Olympics
Exiled Tibetans use the Olympic Rings as a prop as they hold a street protest against the holding of 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, in Dharmsala, India, on Feb. 3, 2021. Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo
The Associated Press
Updated:

Leading sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics should explain why they remain largely silent about alleged human rights abuses in China with the Games opening there in just under three months, Human Rights Watch said Friday.

The rights group said in an online briefing that it had reached out to all but one of the IOC’s so-called TOP sponsors—and leading broadcast rights holder NBC—in lengthy letters almost six months ago.