China’s use of Uyghur with Olympic torch can’t distract from abuses -White House

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China's use of a Uyghur athlete to carry the Olympic torch cannot be a distraction from "the human rights abuses, the genocide" committed against the Uyghurs, White House…

Olympics-China’s U.N. envoy says choice of Uyghur torchbearer not meant to deflect Western criticism

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's United Nations envoy has rejected his U.S. counterpart's remark that China's choice of an ethnic Uyghur as a torchbearer for the Olympic flame at the opening…