This is an unusual “punishment”: a soccer player is deleted from a video game for criticizing China.
Specifically, it is Mesut Özil, who criticized China's treatment We received inquiries about this:

The reason for the excitement is this tweet from Özil on Twitter:
#HayırlıCumalarDoğuTurkistan 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/dJgeK4KSIk
— Mesut Özil (@MesutOzil1088) December 13, 2019
In the text on the two images on the tweet, Mesut Özil calls the Uyghurs from East Turkmenistan “warriors who resist persecution” and criticizes not only China, but also the Muslim countries that remain silent about what is happening.
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Publisher NetEase, which distributes the Pro Evolution Soccer games in China, then announced that Özil would be removed from all three current versions of the game in China, as reported several media outlets .
“The speech hurt the feelings of Chinese fans and violated the sports spirit of love and peace. We do not understand, accept or forgive this.”
...according to NetEase. The Chinese Foreign Ministry also claims that the 31-year-old was “deceived by fake news ” that there are no camps in China to detain and combat Uyghurs.
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Conclusion
It is questionable whether it will really bother Mesut Özil that he is deleted from a popular game in China. The fact that his current club, Arsenal FC, distances itself from Özil's statements is more likely due to the fact that China, for example, did not broadcast .
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