BUDAPEST — The liberal opposition mayor of Budapest announced on Wednesday he would rename streets in the Hungarian capital near a planned campus of a Chinese university to commemorate alleged human rights abuses by Beijing.
One street will be named after the Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, labeled a dangerous separatist by Beijing. Another will be called “Uyghur Martyrs’ Road” after the mainly Muslim ethnic group that Washington and other capitals say has been a victim of a Chinese genocide, and a third will be called “Free Hong Kong Road”. A fourth street will be renamed after a Chinese Catholic bishop who was jailed.
China denies repressing human rights. Phon…
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