BY PETER TATCHELL | I am writing this shortly after being released from “house arrest” in Mumbai, India. I came here, where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is meeting, to lobby them against awarding the 2036 Olympics to a homophobic regime.
Some of the world’s leading anti-LGBTQIA tyrannies are bidding to stage the games, including Qatar, China, Turkey, Indonesia, Egypt and Hungary.
Giving any of them the Olympics would not be consistent with an event the IOC claims will “celebrate humanity.” I thought India was a democracy but I was wrong.
The day after I arrived in Mumbai, six police officers turned up at my hotel and placed me under “preventative detention” in my room.