China sanctions US-based East Turkistan monitors

Çin dışişleri bakanlığı sözcüsü Mao Ning, Salı günü geç saatlerde Los Angeles merkezli araştırma ve veri analitiği firması Kharon ve onun iki önde gelen analistinin girişlerinin yasaklandığını duyurdu. Şirket, Pekin’in Uygurlara ve diğer Müslüman azınlık gruplarına karşı insan hakları ihlalleri gerçekleştirdiği iddialarını kapsamlı bir şekilde bildirdi.

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 East Turkistan.

Uyghurs and other natives of the region share religious, linguistic and cultural links with the scattered peoples of Central Asia and have long resented the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handed control and attempts to assimilate them with the majority Han ethnic group.

In a paper published in June 2022, Morgret wrote: “The Chinese government is undertaking a concerted drive to industrialise the Uyghur Autonomous Region, which has led an increasing number of corporations to establish manufacturing operations there.”  “This centrally-controlled industrial policy is a key tool in the government’s efforts to forcibly assimilate Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples through the institution of a coerced labor regime,” she added.