UK Parliamentarians Call for Sanctions Against Chinese Companies, Officials
Twenty-one United Kingdom parliamentarians urged their government to impose sanctions on Chinese entities and people responsible for human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang region, following similar moves by the U.S. The members, part of the U.K.’s Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, urged Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to sanction the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau, and Chinese officials Chen Quanguo, Zhu Hailun, Sun Jinlong, Peng Jiarui, Wang Mingshan and Huo Liujun, all sanctioned by the U.S. earlier this year (see 2007090024 and 2007310028).
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“There is a pressing need to hold the perpetrators of these abuses to account for their actions,” the members said in a Nov. 10 letter released Nov. 17. If they are found to be eligible for sanctions under the U.K.’s recently created global human rights sanctions regime (see 2007060025), “the government sanctions should be used comprehensively and without delay.”