Celtics games have been shut down in China after one player's pro-Tibet tweet
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2021-10-21 19:30
Celtics games have been shut down in China after one player's pro-Tibet tweet
On Wednesday afternoon, Enes Kanter, a center for the Boston Celtics, traded his uniform for a t-shirt bearing an image of the Dalai Lama, and read a pro-Tibet message that has prompted Chinese broadcasters to take the Celtics off the air in China."My message for the Chinese government is 'Free Tibet.' Tibet belongs to Tibetans," Kanter said in the video, describing restrictions, imprisonment and "cultural genocide" he attributed to Chinese rule and calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a "brutal dictator.

https://www.wbur.org/npr/1048034074/enes-kanter-boston-celtics-china-tibet

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