9 Chinese Companies To Be Sanctioned By US Over Human Rights Issues

Eight companies and an institute of the Chinese Government will be facing sanctions by the US Department of Commerce for their involvement in human rights violations against Uighurs and other minorities in China.

The Department, in a statement, explained, “These nine parties are complicit in human rights violations and abuses committed in China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region."

This comes on the heel of the introduction of China's national security law in opposition to the pro-democracy fighters in Hong Kong, with Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State describing the move as a "disastrous proposal."

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The Commerce Dep. stated that among the companies to be sanctioned are the Aksu Huafu Textiles Co. and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security’s Institute of Forensic Science, “for engaging in human rights violations and abuses," alongside seven other companies serving as accomplices in the case.

The companies and institution sanctioned will experience restrictions on exports from the United States.

This is one in a series of accusations thrown at China by the US, with the most recent being the allegation launched against China in its covering up of vital information regarding the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.