Jonathan Watts reports in the Guardian:
Chinese security forces claimed today to have foiled five “terrorist” plots against the Olympics amid an intensifying pre-games crackdown that has seen police kill five Uighur Muslim suspects and deport a British-Tibetan woman in the past two days.
Human rights groups expressed scepticism about the claims, saying the authorities were using the Olympic threat to crack down on innocent victims and peaceful critics of Chinese communist rule.
The state-run Xinhua news agency also reported today that 82 people have been detained in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang for planning terrorist attacks during next month’s Olympics.
Read also: China says 82 people detained in Olympic plots from AP.
