'We are sending a message to Beijing': US slaps sanctions on Chinese officials over Uighurs

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'We are sending a message to Beijing': US slaps sanctions on Chinese officials over Uighurs
Hind Berji

The United States House of Representatives passed the Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act (UIGHUR Act), effectively pursuing sanctions against China's interment of up to two million of the China's's ethnic Muslim Uighur population in the country's Western Xinjiang Province.

The bill was passed on December 3 and would see that Chinese officials involved in Uighur detention be held "accountable for gross human rights violations… through the application of United States sanctions authorities, and voice concerns regarding such violations in interactions with the Government of the People's Republic of China."

"We are sending a message to Beijing. America is watching and we will not stand silent," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Read more at: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2019/12/12/us-slaps-sanctions-on-chinese-officials-over-uighurs