Beijing:
China announced tit-for-tat sanctions against two Americans, a Canadian and a rights advocacy body late Saturday, in response to sanctions imposed earlier this week by the two nations more than Beijing’s therapy of Uyghurs.
Two members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Gayle Manchin and Tony Perkins, as nicely as Canadian MP Michael Chong and a Canadian parliamentary committee on human rights are prohibited from getting into mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, the Chinese foreign ministry mentioned.
At least one million Uyghurs and people today from other largely Muslim groups have been held in camps in northwestern Xinjiang, according to rights groups, who accuse authorities of forcibly sterilizing ladies and imposing forced labour.
The European Union, Britain, Canada and the United States sanctioned a number of members of Xinjiang’s political and financial hierarchy this week in coordinated action more than the allegations, prompting retaliation from Beijing in the type of sanctions on people from the EU and UK.
China’s foreign ministry on Saturday accused the US and Canada of imposing sanctions “based on rumours and disinformation.”
The sanctioned officials, who are also banned from conducting small business with Chinese citizens and institutions, “must stop political manipulation on Xinjiang-related issues, stop interfering in China’s internal affairs in any form,” the ministry mentioned.
“Otherwise, they will get their fingers burnt,” the foreign ministry statement warned.
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