Around 20 vehicles took to the metropolitan Melbourne streets for a car parade to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games in the Australian state of Victoria on Feb. 4 just hours before the opening ceremony kicked off. The protest was led by the Uyghur Association of Victoria but included activists from the Tibetan community, Australian Hong-Kong Link, as well as activists for Taiwan and Hong Kong. The parade rolled out at 12 p.m. local time in the metropolitan regions of Melbourne, beginning at Chapel Street and finishing near the Channel 7 building by the Docklands. Channel 7 is the only major television station in Australia that streams the 2022 Games. Frank Jie Ruan, editor of the Tiananmen Times, told The Epoch Times the event had been planned for more a month and was originally intended as a rally, but was changed to a car parade to be more COVID-safe. …
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