The presence of a Hong Kong Police Force team at the games sparked an outcry this week among dissidents who fled the Chinese-controlled territory
The event, taking place between July 28 and Aug. 6, welcomed some 8,500 athletes from around the world, including hundreds of participants from the former British colony. The force’s social-media posts suggest its chief Raymond Siu was also in Winnipeg.
maintains a publicly available webpage that contains all information related to Canada’s sanctions regimes,” spokesperson Charlotte MacLeod said in an e-mail. “Collectively, we condemn the violence and express our deepest sympathies to the victims and hope that peace will prevail very soon,” he wrote in a November, 2022, letter.An unattributed statement from the public-relations wing of the Hong Kong Police Force said it sent 287 members to the games. The athletes would compete in 20 events, including archery, badminton, basketball, cycling and dragon boat. The statement didn’t address concerns of the Hong Kongers in Canada.
“I want to think it’s an oversight, that it’s not on purpose that they invited him and they simply didn’t do a background check.”
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