China sanctions US-based Xinjiang monitor
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Los Angeles-based Kharon reported on human rights abuses committed against China’s Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.
China has placed sanctions on a United States research company that monitors human rights in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
China announced late on Tuesday that Los Angeles-based research and data analytics firm Kharon and its two lead analysts are now barred from entry. The company has reported extensively on claims that Beijing is committing human rights abuses against Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups.
Director of investigations Edmund Xu and Nicole Morgret, a human rights analyst affiliated with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, were named as the two barred analysts in a statement published by Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning.
Any assets or property owned by the company or individuals in China will be frozen. Organisations and individuals in China are prohibited from conducting transactions or otherwise cooperating with them.
The statement said that the sanctions were retaliation for Kharon’s contribution to a US government report on human rights in Xinjiang.
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