The Chinese government is committing atrocities and human rights violations against the Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, a northwestern province of China.Chinese authorities detained at least 800,000 and up to 2 million Muslims since 2017; mainly Uyghurs, a predominantly Turkic-speaking ethnic group, along with other ethnic Muslim minorities.
The United States will not stand idly by as the CCP carries out human rights abuses targeting Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other minority groups in Xinjiang, to include forced labor, arbitrary mass detention, and forced population control, and attempts to erase their culture and Muslim faith. Editorials in The New York Times and The Washington Post supported the passage of the Act. World . The United States Imposes Sanctions and Visa Restrictions in Response to the Ongoing Human Rights Violations and Abuses in Xinjiang. The broad and sustained offensive on human rights that started after President Xi Jinping took power five years ago showed no sign of abating in 2017. WASHINGTON: The US … Washington D.C. [US], July 10 (ANI): US on Thursday (local time) imposed sanctions and visa restrictions against some senior officials of Chinese Communist Party in response to the human rights violations in Xinjiang.
ANI . Representative photo: Agencies. PTI | Jul 9, 2020, 22:53 IST . 55 minutes ago. Dive Insight: Human rights abuses carried out against more than 1.5 million Uighur and ethnic or religious minorities currently held in Xinjiang have been documented since 2016. July 10, 2020. Washington, DC () The US Secretary Of State, Michael R. Pompeo released the following statement: The United States will not stand idly by as the CCP carries out human rights abuses targeting Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other minority … The US has announced sanctions against Chinese politicians who it says are responsible for human rights violations against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. "The United States is taking action today against the horrific and systematic abuses in Xinjiang and calls on all nations who share our concerns about the CCP's attacks on human rights … At China’s refusal to reveal its camps to human rights organizations, the United Nations “has requested direct access” to the Xinjiang internment camps to evaluate the camps for human rights violations, and to work with China to alleviate the issues of terrorism and extremism [5]. Opinion pieces written in various publications also supported the passage of the Act.
4 min. [4] Amnesty International, Amnesty International welcomes statement at Human Rights Council addressing China’s appalling violations in Xinjiang (IOR 40/0711/2019) [5] Amnesty International, Open letter to UN Secretary General Re: China’s Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang (Joint statement, 17 September 2019) The US has announced sanctions against Chinese politicians who it says are responsible for human rights violations against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Washington D.C. [US], July 10 (ANI): US on Thursday (local time) imposed sanctions and visa restrictions against some senior officials of Chinese Communist Party in response to the human rights violations in Xinjiang. China’s growing global power makes it an exporter of human rights violations, including at the United Nations, where in 2018 it sought to block participation of its critics. US imposes sanctions on 3 Chinese officials for human rights violations in Xinjiang.