US adds 11 Chinese companies to economic blacklist over Beijing's treatment of Uighurs

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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The US Commerce Department said on Monday (July 20) it is adding 11 Chinese companies implicated in what it said were human rights violations in connection with China's treatment of its Uighurs in Xinjiang in western China to the US economic blacklist.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WASHINGTON - The US Commerce Department said on Monday it is adding 11 Chinese companies implicated in what it said were human rights violations in connection with China's treatment of its Uighurs in Xinjiang in western China to the US economic blacklist.

They include numerous textile companies and two firms the government said were conducting genetic analyses used to further the repression of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.

 

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