Responding to Beijing’s decision to impose sanctions on four of its members, the chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said Tuesday it would “not be silenced,” while its vice chair called the move “an act of desperation” on the part of a “genocidal” regime.
Responding to Beijing’s decision to impose sanctions on four of its members, the chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said Tuesday it would “not be silenced,” while its vice chair called the move “an act of desperation” on the part of a “genocidal” regime.
The sanctions on the four commission members appear to be a specific act of retaliation for U.S. sanctions on two Chinese officials accused of participating in human -rights abuses in Xinjiang.
BEIJING (AP) China announced sanctions on Tuesday on four members of the U.S. government's Commission on International Religious Freedom in retaliation for penalties imposed on Chinese officials over complaints of abuses in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang region.