The US State Department has shared information about China's human rights abuses with US Olympic athletes and defended athletes' right to express opposition to those violations on the eve of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
"US athletes are entitled to express themselves freely in line with the spirit and charter of the Olympics, which includes advancing human rights. We call on the PRC to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, including that very freedom of expression," State Department spokesman Ned Price said Wednesday.
The State Department provided briefings to Team USA athletes on safety and security in Beijing -- as well as the PRC's atrocities and human rights abuses last summer -- leading up to the Games, a department spokesperson said.A Chinese lawyer, Teng Biao, welcomed the efforts to inform athletes of China's human rights abuses. Team USA athletes, Biao said,"can't say they don't know" about China's widespread human rights abuses.
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