Tibetan groups urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday to pressure China into fulfilling the pledge on human rights it made when it was awarded the 2008 Beijing Olympics. "China had made a number of promises to the IOC regarding improvement of the standard of human rights in China," Bumo Tsering, spokeswoman for a coalition of Tibetan groups, told a news conference."Now I think the time has come for the IOC to check on China whether all these commitments have been met," she said, adding that Beijing continued with human rights violations and was also exerting pressure on neighboring India over Tibet.
As a result, India's foreign ministry has refused permission to use New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru stadium to stage a soccer match on Saturday involving "Team Tibet," she said.
Chinese troops marched into Tibet in 1950 and Beijing has since left its mark on traditional Tibetan society, closing monasteries and restricting religious life.
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