Celtics center Enes Kanter, who has repeatedly advocated for Tibetan independence, called China’s Xi Jinping a “heartless dictator” Friday and implored him to “free” the Uyghur people.
He’s continuing to voice his opinion after Chinese broadcaster and NBA partner Tencent recently decided to not show Celtics games in China in response to comments Kanter made previously.
Kanter, in a tweet Friday afternoon, said Jinping, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is condoning a “genocide” that includes “torture, rape, forced abortions and sterilizations, family separations, arbitrary detentions, concentration camps, political reeducation, forced labor.