China announced this Saturday (03.27.2021) sanctions against three people and an entity from the United States and Canada, in response to those imposed by the two countries recently due to the treatment that Beijing gives to the Uighur minority.
The president of the US Commission for International Religious Freedom, Gayle Manchin, and his vice president Tony Perkins are now banned from entering China, Hong Kong and Macao, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Canadian MP Michael Chong and the Canadian Parliament Subcommittee on International Human Rights were equally sanctioned.
At least one million Muslims held in camps in Xinjiang
At least one million Uyghurs and people belonging to other Muslim groups are being held in camps in the Xinjiang region (northwest), according to human rights groups, who accuse the Chinese government of imposing forced labor on them and sterilizing women. women.
The European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States this week sanctioned various members of Xinjiang’s political and economic hierarchy for exerting pressure, prompting rapid diplomatic retaliation from Beijing, in the form of sanctions against EU individuals and United Kingdom.
Sanctioned Western officials will not be able to do business with any Chinese citizen or company.
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