Canada sanctions 4 Chinese officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang

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Co-ordinated effort with U.S. and other allies comes one month after MPs accused China of 'genocide'

Canada joined the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union today in placing sanctions on Chinese officials suspected of involvement in a years-long campaign of persecution against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China's western Xinjiang province.

In a statement announcing the sanctions, Global Affairs Canada accused the four high-ranking officials of participating in human rights violations in Xinjiang.

The statement said mounting evidence shows the Chinese state is responsible for arbitrarily imprisoning more than one million people on the basis of their religion and ethnicity, and for subjecting them to "political re-education, forced labour, torture and forced sterilization."

China has denied all reports of human rights abuses in the region, claiming that the camps are vocational training centres needed to fight extremism.

"These measure reflect our grave concern with the gross and systematic rights abuses taking place in the region," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at an unrelated event in Quebec.

"We will continue to work closely with our international partners to pursue accountability and transparency."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can...iang-1.5959080

The four officials Canada is targeting are:

Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.
Wang Mingshan, secretary of the political and legal affairs committee in Xinjiang and former director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.
Zhu Hailun, former deputy party secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Wang Junzheng, secretary of the party committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
Canada also announced sanctions against the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau, a state-run organization responsible for security and policing.

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Btw Huawei CFO is still under house arrest in Vancouver. What can we expect in the coming months?