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China stated Sunday it was taking countermeasures in opposition to two Canadian establishments and 20 individuals concerned in human points regarding the Uyghurs and Tibet.
The measures, which took impact on Saturday, embrace asset freezes and bans on entry and the targets embrace Canada’s Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project and the Canada-Tibet Committee, China’s international ministry declares on its web site.
Rights teams accuse Beijing of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a primarily Muslim ethnic minority that numbers round 10 million within the western area of Xinjiang, together with the mass use of compelled labor in camps. Beijing denies any abuses.
China seized management of Tibet in 1950 in what it describes as a “peaceable liberation” from feudalistic serfdom. International human rights teams and exiles, nevertheless, have routinely condemned what they name China’s oppressive rule in Tibetan areas.
For the 2 establishments, China stated it’s freezing their “movable property, immovable property and different sorts of property inside the territory of China.” It is freezing the property in China of 15 individuals within the Uyghur establishment and 5 on the Tibet committee, banning them from coming into China, together with Hong Kong and Macau.
