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Beijing imposed sanctions on 10 Europeans in response to European Union sanctions against Chinese officials for persecuting the Uighur minority.
The blacklist also includes several MEPs, members of the Belgian and Dutch parliaments and researchers. They are prohibited from entering China.
Social Democrat D.Šakalienė told BNS that this move from Beijing shows that China is affected by the EU’s principled position.
The politician belongs to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, he is one of the forty co-chairs.
“It is paradoxical that a billion dollar state chooses to intimidate a citizen of a small country rather than end the illegal detention and torture of one million citizens of their country. And yet such a sudden reaction by the Chinese Communist Party to the EU sanctions announced today against high-ranking Chinese officials directly involved in massive systemic crimes against humanity testifies that China is affected by our principled position, “he said. the member of the Seimas.
“Both the testimonies of fugitive political prisoners and the years of systematic work and evidence gathered by scientists show that China’s Uighur genocide will not stop unless there is a strong international response. My work at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China o criticisms of human rights violations are based on publicly available information from reliable international sources, ”added D. Šakalienė.
European Union officials recently agreed to impose sanctions on four Chinese officials for persecuting the Uighurs.
Human rights defenders say that at least one million Uighurs and other Turkish-speaking Muslims are being held in so-called re-education camps in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. China is also accused of using forced labor and forcibly sterilizing women in Xinjiang.
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