Friday, June 19, 2020

US passes new law to sanction Chinese officials



Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China’s Xinjiang region. China has threatened to retaliate against the US’s new Uighur human rights law. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP

Beijing has criticised a new US law that would sanction Chinese officials over the mass incarceration of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, saying it “maliciously attacks” China’s policy in the Xinjiang region.

The legislation, which passed Congress almost unanimously, requires the US administration to determine which Chinese officials are responsible for the “arbitrary detention, torture and harassment” of Uighurs and other minorities.
The United States would then freeze any assets the officials hold in the US and ban their entry into the country……




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