WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and entities in China, Myanmar, while listing a black-made intelligence company for human rights violations marking international human rights day.
This happened when Myanmar’s military committed human rights violations in the country after expelling a democratically chosen government in February.
Financial sanctions and visas came on the last day of President Joe Biden’s virtual summit for democracy, where he launched a policy to increase democracy against threats throughout the world and appeal for solidarity among several participants, Radio Free Asia reported.
“On the International Human Rights Day, Treasury uses its tools to expose and hold perpetrators responsible for serious human rights harassment,” Wally Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary of the Department of the United States Department in a statement.
Meanwhile, the US has also imposed sanctions on entities related to rights violations in China, North Korea and Bangladesh.
Sanctions against China also included a ban on US visas in the current chairman and earlier from the Xinjiang Uyghur (Xuar) autonomous region (Xuar), where thousands of Uyghur were detained in the detention camps by the Chinese Communist Party as part of its harsh acts of the minority community.
, Radio Free Asia reports.
This sanction came a day after the court in London found that Chinese policies in the region were genocide.
After a series of hearings that last several months, the London-based independent court has decided that China does ‘genocide’ to other uyghur and ethnic minorities in the province of Xinjiang.
The Uyghur court stated the verdict after the lawyer panel and the UK-based rights expert examined human rights violations in the Xinjiang region.
The audience was held in June, September, and November 2021, where the Tribunal expert panel reviewed hundreds of witness statements and heard direct evidence from more than 30 witnesses about their experience of the Chinese oppression policy, as well as from expert witnesses.
Earlier this year, the US became the first country in the world to declare China’s actions in Xinjiang as “genocide”.
In February, the two Canadian and Dutch parliaments adopted the movement to recognize the uyghur crisis as a genocide.