[ad_1]
“This measure, based solely on lies and misinformation, ignores and distorts the facts,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, adding that it was a major interference in the country’s internal affairs.
Among the 10 people sanctioned are Reinhard Butikofer, head of the European Parliament delegation for relations with China, and Adrian Zenz, a German investigator whose reports on the treatment of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang region have angered Beijing.
Legal entities include the Political and Security Committee of the Council of the European Union and the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament.
According to human rights groups and experts, more than a million members of Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minority groups in China’s Xinjiang region are being held in educational camps that are more reminiscent of prisons. They force them to abandon their culture and religion. China is also accused of forced sterilization and forced labor of Uighur women.
EU foreign ministers in Brussels announced on Monday that they have decided to take action against those responsible for the oppression of the Uighur minority in the Xinjiang region.
China’s Foreign Ministry responded by stating that the country strongly opposes and condemns the EU sanctions, adding that its retaliatory measures will be directed against European individuals and their families by banning entry to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. .
“They and the companies and institutions associated with them are also prohibited from doing business with China,” the ministry said.
The Dutch government summoned the Chinese ambassador
The Dutch government summoned the Chinese ambassador after Beijing imposed sanctions on 10 Europeans, including a member of the Dutch parliament, the Foreign Ministry announced on Monday.
China imposed sanctions on Europeans in a dispute with the European Union over Beijing’s treatment of Uighurs.
“The Dutch government has called an ambassador for China [sprendimo] to add Sjoerd Sjoerdsma to [asmenų, kuriems taikomos sankcijos]”A spokesman for the Dutch Foreign Ministry told AFP, citing a D66 MP from the center left party.
