The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday added to its Entities List 11 Chinese business included in declared human rights abuses in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR), disallowing them from access to U.S.-sourced products, technology, and other products, a Department statement stated. The business added to the list preserved by the Department’s Bureau of […]

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Morgan Ortagus, U.S. Department of State spokesperson given that April 2019, talked to Alim Seytoff, director of RFA’s Uyghur Service, on Wednesday about Washington’s efforts to hold China responsible for its policies of persecution in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR), consisting of the extrajudicial imprisonment of some 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities […]

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U.S. President Donald Trump should “immediately enforce” sanctions versus Chinese officials accountable for rights abuses in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) as licensed by an act of Congress he signed into law today, according to a panel on religious freedom. On Wednesday, Trump enacted the Uyghur Person Rights Policy Act of 2020 (UHRPA), […]

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The U.S. Congress passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 on Wednesday, marking the first legislation by any federal government to target China for its persecution of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Self-governing Area (XUAR), regardless of dangers of retaliation from Beijing. The passage comes as the U.S. House of Representatives voted 413 […]

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The U.S. Senate passed a bill Thursday that would sanction Chinese federal government authorities accountable for approximate imprisonment, required labor and other abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area, home to internment camps holding as numerous as 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslims. The Uyghur Human Being Rights Policy Act of 2020, condemns the Chinese […]

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