"China's human rights record is getting worse, not better, because of the Beijing Olympics"

China's human rights record is getting worse, not better, because of the Beijing Olympics, so says Amnesty International. What a surprise, giving the Olympics to China has not opened up China or brought freedom of speech and expression to China, instead it has brought a clamping down on dissent in a bid to portray a stable and harmonious image of China ahead of the Games in August.