NEWS//U.S. restricts Xinjiang visas
China Underground reports that the United States has restricted visas for people who work for 28 Chinese companies, for certain government offices and for Chinese security bureaus over their alleged role in facilitating human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explained the reason for the restrictions in this statement:
The Chinese government has instituted a highly repressive campaign against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) that includes mass detentions in internment camps; pervasive, high-tech surveillance; draconian controls on expressions of cultural and religious identities; and coercion of individuals to return frombroad to an often perilous fate in China. Today, I am announcing:
Visa restrictions on Chinese government and Communist Party officials who are believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, the detention or abuse of Uighurs, Kazakhs, or other members of Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang, China. Family members of such persons may also be subject to these restrictions.
This blog has reported on the situation in Xinjiang: