George Washington University President Censors Artist’s Posters Protesting Beijing Winter Olympics

Last week, George Washington University president Mark S. Wrighton vowed to remove posters by political cartoonist and Chinese dissident Badiucao following student outcry. Later on, he swiftly reversed course after further backlash. The poster’s content, which centers on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, calls out China’s alleged human-rights abuses such as the Uyghur genocide and oppression in Tibet and Hong Kong.
In an email reportedly sent to a concerned student, Wrighton wrote