The U.S. imposed sanctions on three senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party for alleged human rights abuses targeting Uighurs and other ethnic and religious minorities China has detained in the western part of the country.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, July 8, 2020.
The decision to bar these senior officials and their families from entering the U.S. is the latest of a series of actions the Trump administration has taken against China as relations deteriorate over the coronavirus pandemic and trade.human rights abuses In recent years, the Chinese government has detained an estimated 1 million or more ethnic Turkic minorities. The ethnic minorities are held in internment camps and prisons where they are subjected to ideological discipline, forced to denounce their religion and language and physically abused. China has long suspected the Uighurs, who are mostly Muslim, of harboring separatist tendencies because of their distinct culture, language and religion.
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