Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says US will be imposing sanctions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses targeting ethnic and religious minorities
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, US, July 8, 2020.
"The United States calls upon the world to stand against the CCP’s acts against its own minority communities in Xinjiang, including mass arbitrary detention, forced labour, religious persecution, and forced birth control and sterilisation," a White House official said.However, China denies mistreatment of the minority group and says the camps provide vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.
Today, I designated three senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang for gross violations of human rights, making them and their immediate family members ineligible for entry into the United States.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement he was also imposing further visa restrictions on Chen, Zhu, and Wang, barring them and their immediate family from the United States.
Last December, Xinjiang authorities announced that the camps had closed and all the detainees had “graduated,” a claim difficult to corroborate independently given tight surveillance and restrictions on reporting in the region. Some Uighurs and Kazakhs have told the AP that their relatives have been released, but many others say their loved ones remain in detention, were sentenced to prison or transferred to forced labour in factories.
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