Athletes Are Warned That They Will Be Under Surveillance At The Beijing Olympics

 

Daily Mail: Athletes competing at the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month told they will be under ‘Orwellian’ levels of surveillance by the Chinese state 

* Athletes will be under ‘Orwellian’ levels of surveillance by the Chinese state 

* The assessment was made on Tuesday by a Human Rights Watch panel 

* Team GB have offered their delegation temporary phones due to spying fears 

* There are concerns over using the Olympic platform to flag human rights issues 

Athletes competing at the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month have been issued a stark warning that they will be under ‘Orwellian’ levels of surveillance by the Chinese state. 

The assessment was made on Tuesday by a Human Rights Watch panel, which has repeatedly criticised the forthcoming Games as a ‘sportswashing’ exercise designed to conceal China’s ‘abysmal human rights record’. 

In urging caution among competitors at the Games, Dr Sophie Richardson, the China director for Human Rights Watch, said: ‘One of the features of the 2008 Olympic Games (in Beijing) was the authorities’ use of what was then considered high technology.  

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