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				What is the Human Rights Torch Relay? The Human Rights Torch Relay (HRTR) is an international year-long event traveling to major cities around the world. Who Are We? The HRTR is a global project made up of nonprofit organizations, civic and professional groups, churches and individuals who are committed to universal human rights. The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) initiated the Human Rights Torch Relay in Athens, Greece in August 2007. Why Are We Doing This? We want to bring attention to human rights abuses in China which have increased since China was chosen as the 2008 Olympic host. We believe that the Olympic Games and crimes against humanity cannot coexist in China. We are alarmed about the widespread and severe persecution of Christians, Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong, democracy advocates, AIDS victims, journalists, and lawyers. In addition to these persecutions, the Chinese Communist Party supports other totalitarian regimes in their assaults on their citizens - in Burma, Darfur and North Korea. We are calling upon China to stop all state-sanctioned murder, torture, unlawful arrests and detention, and all violations of the International Human Rights Law and to release all prisoners of conscience.