Former Boston Celtics forward Enes Kanter Freedom criticized the NBA and league commissioner Adam Silver for embracing the CCP amid alleged human rights abuses.
directly for being silent while the CCP"slaughters" Muslims in concentration camps.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks to the media prior to the game of the Dallas Mavericks against the Philadelphia 76ers as part of the 2018 China Games at the Mercedes-Benz Arena on Oct. 5, 2018, in Shanghai, China."When the Muslims are being literally slaughtered in concentration camps in China, you [Adam Silver] are silent, and not only are you silent, but you’re literally," he said.
"Please look me in the eye and say you don’t know nothing about the 3 million people in concentration camps in China [who] are getting tortured and raped every day. Shame on you." alleged the Chinese government committed"serious human rights abuses" in its detention of Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic group, and other religious minority groups in Xinjiang.
Ethnic Uighur demonstrators take part in a protest against China, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 1, 2021. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya Scott Busby, deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the State Department, testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2018 that Chinese authorities have detained at least 800,000 Uyghurs and potentially up to 2 million since 2017. Freedom added the only thing the NBA cares about is its business, money and PR.
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