Producer Amy moving to Radio 1 Breakfast

[陈恩达]

BEIJING (AFP-<cite class="auth">Friday, January 18</cite>) - - Britain's Gordon Brown arrived in China Friday for his maiden visit as prime minister, with tackling climate change and boosting two-way trade and investment top of the agenda...

In the July/August issue of Amnesty Magazine it reviews the promises made six years ago on Human Rights when Beijing was 'awarded' the 2008 Games. It lists 10 serious violations across the country which they say are "fuelling instability and discontent".

China's one-party regime executes more people each year than the rest of the world put together; two thirds of the 68 crimes punishable by death are non-violent crimes. Re-education through Labour' camps have been used to hold critics of the dictatorship for up to four years without charge or trial. RTL is also being used, the report says, to "clean up" Beijing in time for the Olympics. 'Evidence' in courts can be the result of torture and verdicts given after political interference. Many prisoners, subjected to torture, die in custody.

The IOC rejected the objections and said, "A Beijing Games would leave a unique legacy to China and to sports". Equated with the award of the Olympics to Japan in 1964 and South Korea in 1988, the event is seen as an economic 'coming-out party'. But Amnesty International says that far from improving, as the Chinese economy has opened up to the world, repression in China is getting worse.

[SEANN]

Beijing won't be the same again after the olympics

[Jono]

I still can't work out if this post is spam or whether they genuinely care about the Olympics.

[KingTutsWWH]

I was wondering. It would have been better if our new Chinese member had introduced themselves prior to posting this thread. Don't know what to call him/her; my Cantonese/Mandarin are both a wee bit rusty.

I think this person is making the point that given China's appauling human rights record, it is wrong that they should be awarded the Olympics and be allowed to promote their country abroad, thereby sweeping everything else under the carpet.

I could be completely wrong though.

[eleanor]

I've been searching the title via Yahoo and I've seen a lot of posts like this one with the same content by different people.

Those people also posted a link just like the one he used in the signature.

These posts are mainly posted in this month.

35% spam and 20% genuinely care about the Olympics for me...Just ignore it.

[DC]

i'll have egg fried rice, curry sauce and chips please.

[Geezer7348]

Looks like spam to me, cant see them having any interest in Scott Mills or Radio 1, infact I'd be surprised if they returned to the forum.

[DC]

a bot or an actual person i wonder?

[Serin]

Mao Zedong is back and he wants redemption!

[John]

Biography:

the Party of Chinese Communists

Hmm

[sebdevlin]

i'll have egg fried rice, curry sauce and chips please.

Beaten to the joke though it has to be king prawn with special fried rice.

[陈恩达]

... it is wrong that they should be awarded the Olympics and be allowed to promote their country abroad, thereby sweeping everything else under the carpet.

In that the CCP will not be rude to foreigners. it is good that visitors wear T-shirts bearing this logo then?

[Jono]

You've obviously not seen ours then for 2012:

[陈恩达]

You've obviously not seen ours then for 2012:

Airs and graces too.

But Gordon Brown is not mediaeval:x like Wen Jiabao,uhm?

[Mike]

Ok. I have completely no idea what the hell this thread is about.

Thank you.

[Geezer7348]

Ok. I have completely no idea what the hell this thread is about.

Thank you.

Seconded,

Cant say I am overly interested either!

So 陈恩达, Who is your favourite Radio 1 DJ?, how did you come across the site?

[DC]

ونحن لا يهتمون كثيرا لبلدان اخرى هنا.

[Serin]

Ok. I have completely no idea what the hell this thread is about.

Thank you.

*Whispers* Highlighting the human rights crises in China, which still treats its citizens in a way that might be deemed here contradictory to the civil rights as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.

The original poster is basically vexed as to why the international community would award China the Olympic Games as a country with ill-regard for its people and that reforms it promised to make if it were given the Olympic Games haven't been met, as reported by Amnesty International.

And Gordon Brown is basically a hypocritical c*nt, but we all knew that anyway.

[Andy B]

Actually our logo is starting to grow on me......they were right about that.

[Mike]

*Whispers* Highlighting the human rights crises in China, which still treats its citizens in a way that might be deemed here contradictory to the civil rights as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.

The original poster is basically vexed as to why the international community would award China the Olympic Games as a country with ill-regard for its people and that reforms it promised to make if it were given the Olympic Games haven't been met, as reported by Amnesty International.

And Gordon Brown is basically a hypocritical c*nt, but we all knew that anyway.

*Whispers*

Thanks

[KingTutsWWH]

*Whispers* Highlighting the human rights crises in China, which still treats its citizens in a way that might be deemed here contradictory to the civil rights as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.

The original poster is basically vexed as to why the international community would award China the Olympic Games as a country with ill-regard for its people and that reforms it promised to make if it were given the Olympic Games haven't been met, as reported by Amnesty International.

And Gordon Brown is basically a hypocritical c*nt, but we all knew that anyway.

's 'wot I sed, innit? [whispered]. Why the hushed voices though?

[Sexi_chel]

I was at the olympic torch finale yesterday i heard bout the trouble on the way and when kelly holmes brought the torch on stage the were about 100 police and it's a shame the sugababes pulled out at the last min

[sinister]

pix from around st pauls

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sinister-pictures/sets/72157604409836424/

[tamba]

This has turned into a Mike Bassett type humour.

I would have loved it if when they took the torch onto the 'bus' the wind blew the flame out haha... Yes, I have a weird sense of humour

[sinister]

one of my shots shows the torch on the bus unlit, with some one below giving it the vees. Wasn't the whole torch thing started by Hitler for the 30s Berlin Olympics anyway?