China’s use of high-tech surveillance to oppress and monitor Uighur Muslims is the “future of religious oppression” that could spread across the world if not stopped by the U.S. and other international players, Sam Brownback, U.S. ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom, has warned.
The State Department is taking action against People’s Republic of China officials for repressing predominantly Muslim Uighurs, members of other ethnic and religious minority groups, and religious and spiritual practitioners inside and outside of China’s borders.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced new visa restrictions on Chinese officials for their actions to repress ethnic and religious minorities both inside and outside the country.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced new visa restrictions on Chinese officials for their actions to repress ethnic and religious minorities both inside and outside the nation.
In a statement, which provided no specific details on which officials would be targeted, Blinken also reiterated a call for China to “end its ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang.
Xinjiang is in the grip of a years-long “anti-terrorism” campaign that has seen more than 1 million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities detained in a sprawling network of “re-education” camps, rights groups say.
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Blinken said that the visa restrictions would be
TAIPEI As the Chinese government tightened its grip over its ethnic Uighur population, it sentenced one man to death and three others to life in prison last year for textbooks drawn in part from historical resistance movements that had once been sanctioned by the ruling Communist Party.