Excerpted from BBC: World Have Your Say:

"It was the Chinese government and authorities who made promises pre-2001, and they made promises to the IOC, to the international community, and to its own people that it would be a Green Olympics, a high-tech Olympics, a free and open Olympics, and a People's Olympics. And they meant that it should improve Democracy and Human Rights, and not only for the 15.8 million people in Beijing, but for all of the billion people in China."

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• HRIC Campaign:
  Incorporating Responsibility 2008 Take Action Campaign
• HRIC Press Release:
  2008 Beijing Olympics: The Price of National Glorification
• HRIC Press Release:
  Two Beijing Residents Sentenced to Reeducation-Through-Labor After Applying for Permits to Demonstrate in Olympics "Protest Zones"
• HRIC Press Release:
  Press Statement: Crackdown Worsens on Eve of Beijing Games
• HRIC Press Statement:
  Rights Crackdown Intensifies a Month before the Games
• HRIC Press Advisory:
  Legal Guidelines for Foreigners—Olympic Traps for Foreigners?
• HRIC Press Statement:
  Five-Year Sentence of Olympics Critic Not Human Rights Progress
• China Rights Forum No. 4, 2007:
  The Real Situation in Pre-Olympics China - Teng Biao and Hu Jia give their views about the situation on the ground in the countdown to the Olympics.