China has announced sanctions against 9 people and 4 UK companies

In response to what London imposed on Monday on human rights abuses in China's northwestern region, China announced sanctions against former British Conservative leader Ian Duncan Smith, 9 UK individuals and 4 companies.  Fosundo Arisapalaka / Archive
In response to what London imposed on Monday on human rights abuses in China’s northwestern region, China announced sanctions against former British Conservative leader Ian Duncan Smith, 9 UK individuals and 4 companies. Fosundo Arisapalaka / Archive

BEIJING, March 26 (EFE) .- China’s Foreign Ministry today announced sanctions against nine citizens and four UK companies in response to London’s Monday ruling on human rights abuses in the region. Northwest China Xinjiang.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website that the first grandson of British Tom Dujendat, Ian Duncan Smith, Neil O’Brien, David Alton, Tim Loughton, Nusrat Ghani, Helena Kennedy, Jeffrey Nice, John Nicola Smith Binley and their cousins Will be banned from Macau.
In addition, their assets in China will be frozen, and Chinese citizens and companies will be “prohibited from doing business with them.”
The victims were five conservative politicians, a Labor member, a former Liberal Democrat, an educator and a lawyer.
The sanctions also affect the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, the China Research Group Think Tank (formed by Conservative MPs), the Uyghur court system and the Essex Court Chambers law firm.
Beijing believes the UK has imposed its sanctions on four individuals and a Chinese company “based on anything other than lies and misinformation” and warned London not to “go down the wrong path”.
“Otherwise, China will decisively take the next step,” the statement said.
In recent years, there have been complaints about the situation of some minorities in Xinjiang by members of Uighur ethnic groups living abroad and other ethnic minorities of the Mohammedan faith.
In addition, satellite images showing the construction and expansion of protected facilities and documents have been released, pointing to a rapid policy that is seen as putting an end to Islamic extremism in the region, the visual majority of ethnic immigration campaigns that the Chinese ethnic group has had over the past decades.
In the opinion of some foreign analysts, the aforementioned facilities would be detention centers, the existence of which Beijing initially denied, and later argued that they were vocational training centers that would help intensify Islamists in the region.
Moreover, according to Beijing, they will help prisoners learn a profession and improve their economic situation in an area where large investments are allocated.
Beijing categorically denies that human rights abuses occur in Xinjiang, a region where the international press is confronted with unusual issues in China.

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