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__**Research Questions and Answers**__

A:**Back in 2001, China promised to behave and improve its human-rights records, in exchange for hosting the Games, but has broken its promises; there is more repression of Tibetans and other minorities, more jailing of dissidents, more harassment of the foreign press, more pollution, more censorship; in short, China is not democratizing. Few people I have talked to during my frequent visits to China accept the story that their country is worse off in terms of human rights than in 2001.
 * Q: When and why did China get given the Olympic games?

A:** There are over 20 million people in prison labour camps. In previous years, in China, people with mental diseases or contagious conditions would have been barred. Thousands of Tibetans walk over the harsh conditions of the Himalayas to get to India to escape the Chinese police and government. Many die or get arrested by the police on the way. A monk wrote 'Free Tibet' in a book and he was sentenced for three years imprisonment. Even a student who spoke to a foreign person could have a death penalty. Any Tibetans can be arrested for going against the Chinese Government. People are so scared of the Chinese government that even if they are having trouble serving and a Chinese official asked them about their lives they will only have good things to say. Some toys which have 'Made in China' on them may actually be made by tortured slaves in Tibet.
 * Q: What is China like now?

A:**The Chinese government also violates the fundamental rights of its citizens through widespread use of the death penalty, restrictions on freedom of expression and religion and widespread violations of labor rights. Strict internet and media censorship is enforced by government agencies and the largest internet police in the world. In Tibet, expressions of support for the exiled Dalai Lama and suspicion of “separatist” activities routinely result in the imprisonment of Tibetans, many of them Buddhist monks and nuns.
 * Q: Why are the human rights so bad in China?

I think they are bad because the Chinese government is to busy focusing on presenting a positive image to the world so they block out any bad people and other things like the internet that shows the bad side of China.

A:** On the eve of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, as President Bush urges Chinese leaders to grant greater freedom to the people of China, sources from within the country have informed Human Rights in China that Chinese authorities continue to detain, harass, coerce, and monitor rights defenders and dissidents in different parts of China. In the cases documented by Human Rights in China, lawyers, academics, scholars, petitioners, and rights activists have been put under strict surveillance. In several instances, they have been told that they are being monitored so that they cannot go to Beijing during the Olympics. "In order to ensure a 'Safe Olympics,' the Chinese authorities have put society under a virtual lock down. The Beijing Olympics is in danger of going down in history as the 'Olympics of Fear.'"
 * Q: What has China done about the Human Rights issue in China?

A:** Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China is conducted under a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations. In accordance with these laws, more than sixty Internet regulations have been made by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government, and censorship systems are vigorously implemented by provincial branches of state-owned ISP's, business companies, and organizations.
 * Q: Why is the issue with the great firewall in China blocking internet pages occurring?

Basically, they are blocking out any webpages that say anything against the Chinese Government or China at all. This is so that their citizens think China is perfect and think that no other country is better than it but there are still many people suffering behind the scenes.

A:** Host cities have taken on huge debts to stage the games. The debt for the 1976 Montreal Olympics was finally paid off in 2002. Calgary took on a $910 million debt, Barcelona a $1.4 billion debt, and Sydney, billed as self-financing, had a $2.3 billion deficit. The Nagano games are described as being paid off by future generations. In the original 2004 Athens Olympic bid, Greece estimated that the Olympics would cost $1 billion dollars. They ended up costing at least $9 billion.
 * Q: What is the Olympic stadium like compared to other Olympic stadiums?

The stadium construction costs rises to 4 billion RMB which is around 500 million USD and the stadium was built mostly on money which came from donations. The ground was broken on Christmas Eve in December 2003 and it took 4 years to complete the project. It was built with 36 km of unwrapped steel, with a combined weight of 45,000 tonnes. 10 workers had died during the stadium’s construction.

A:**There are 900 million poor farmers in China's countryside, according to many all eager to up sticks and move to a factory
 * Q: What state do people live like in China?

A:** They didn't promise any certain human rights they just promised better ones overall.
 * Q: What better human rights did they promise for China when they got awarded the Olympic games?