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Australia under pressure to join diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics

A visitor walks past a sculpture for the Beijing Winter Olympics

A visitor walks past a sculpture for the Beijing Winter Olympics Source: AAP

The move comes in light of concerns about China's human rights record, particularly the alleged atrocities against more than one million Uighur Muslims in the country.



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