2022 Winter Olympics underway as China faces accusations of human rights abuses

The opening ceremony for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China, was held Friday. But the event has been surrounded by a political controversy as China has been accused by some countries and human rights groups of abuse against Uyghur Muslims. Beijing denies the accusations. CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas reports from Beijing, and Teng Biao, a human rights lawyer and visiting professor at the University of Chicago, joins CBS News Lana Zak to discuss.

[johnnytiger]

Show me those million Uighurs who suffers in concentration camps. In another news channel some activist said it was 3 million. I need facts, not statements from biased activists.

[leaderindia]

Something went wrong in the brain. A sport also involves politics.

[amandahug-n-kiss]

Curling's got to be one of the most ridiculous game ever played -

[yangtianyi]

1million people in camp, no one single satellite image. Fantastic.

[VL-inquisitor]

This is the part that befuddles me the most.

China asked a Uyghur athlete to bear the torch and light flames at the Winter Olympics, you said 'it is used to deflect genocide charges'. If China didn't do so, you gonna to say "See, there is not even a single Uyghur athlete representing China in the international sports event' or 'Of course, all Uyghurs are spending their time in internment camps'.

Basically, for China, it is 'Damn it if you do; damn it if you don't'. Is that what the West says 'unbiased, factual journalism'?

[incisive]

Shoutout to all my CIA shills working overtime in the comments this olympics. Someone's gotta propagandize for the empire and I'm glad it's you. Happy Chinese Lunar New Year boys.

[nuclear.six]

🇹🇼 No.1 free 🇭🇰 Tibet, Uyghurs, Mongolia!!

[NL-trix]

It's just so funny that the head government from all the Islamic countries didn’t boycott the Olympic Games but the head government from the western countries are boycotting it…😂

[David_Lo_Pan]

*It's not just Uyghurs and Xinjiang.*
....Christian persecution and human trafficking are major issues in China, as well.

ps. Xinjiang is just the tip of the iceberg, in a vast network known as *"Laogai*

[angela]

Has Teng Piao been to Xinjiang? Talked to the locals? I guess not. Don't be a stooge of the US propaganda. Go to Indonesia, everybody knows Chinese there were persecuted and are still marginalised. Is Teng Piao speaking about it? Pay him an appearance fee, he can easily put up a good story. Has the US done anything about Indonesia's Human rights violations? Nothing.

[rickyshun]

Any accusation without evidence is slanderous.

[risby]

Unfortunately our athletes are complicit in Genocide, with them attending and supporting the CCP.

[sjvs]

They believe that if you throw enough muck on the wall, some of it will stick eventually.

[starcrib]

An insufferable international debacle: truly dystopian : out of sight out of mind 🦖☄

[laisuilightfoot]

This guy can’t even speak English and try to lie about China 🙄

[доктормагия]

I wanna wrap myself around her like that green dress she's wearing

[tong]

how many were innocent people died in the war against terrorist?

[johnnyjai]

🥇give all peoples of the earth a medal with winter Olympic games at the first place🥇

🥇Winter Olympic games at the first place🥇

🥈Winter Olympic games at the second place🥈

🥉Winter Olympic games at the third place🥉

[Gregman]

I'm ashamed that we're participating, our Olympians aren't even safe in that communist toilet.

[raphaelbaruch]

Like. Igga you’re forcing me to runn illegal research on myself. I be literally trying to get humanitarian aid from Gaza raw and from all, sides