Azeri human rights defender Emin Huseynov
found
refuge in the Swiss embassy. Now he has been allowed to go to
Switzerland.
It is no accident that the "European" Games are being held in a
tyrannical state near the border of Europe — and no accident
that the contestants don't talk and
probably
don't think about this.
I have never considered sports or those who play them to be a model of
any kind. It is silly to put so much effort into a struggle with
nothing important at stake, and for others to pay so much attention to
the outcome. This article argues that high-level sports impose total
political censorship on the athletes while disconnecting them from
the political issues of life, so that they become unfit to participate
in democracy.