US Sanctions Uyghur Persecutors, Expands Chinese Imports Ban to Mark Human Rights Day

Published on December 9, 2023

The United States has imposed sanctions on two mid-level Chinese officials and several entities deemed responsible for suppressing Uyghurs with “serious human rights abuses in Xinjiang,” the region in western China where U.S. authorities said genocide is taking place. The Chinese officials named by U.S. authorities are Hu Lianhe, the vice head of the Xinjiang Work Coordination Small Group of the Central Committee that has been instrumental in implementing Beijing’s Xinjiang policies, and Gao Qi, the deputy chief of the Yili region’s vice governor and former leader of the local public security bureau. The two are now under concurrent sanctions from the State and Treasury Departments in accordance with the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 signed into law that May....

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