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Chinese Foreign Ministry announces new sanctions against Great Britain
China reserves the right to take additional measures, the Foreign Ministry said.
China has announced new sanctions against nine people and four UK entities that are spreading “lies and disinformation” about the situation in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. this was announced on Thursday, March 25, on the website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that China reserves the right to take additional measures.
Persons subject to sanctions, as well as members of their families, will be prohibited from entering the territory of the People’s Republic of China. Chinese citizens and institutions will not be able to do business with these people and companies.
Those who have been subject to the restrictions include Tom Tugendhat, head of the British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, former Conservative Party leader Ian Duncan Smith, Uighur writer Joanne Smith Finley, China Research Group, Tory Human Rights Commission, organization “Uyghur Tribunal”.
It is known that on March 22, the EU imposed unilateral sanctions against Chinese individuals and organizations, citing so-called human rights violations in Xinjiang. In response, the Chinese government imposed sanctions on 10 parliamentarians, academics and politicians, as well as four EU legal entities for interfering in the internal affairs of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China.
On the eve of the EU, the US, Canada and the UK imposed sanctions on Chinese officials for violating the rights of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
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