EU agrees China sanctions over human rights abuses

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EU agrees China sanctions over human rights abuses

EU ambassadors have agreed on a list of persons and entities to be sanctioned for human rights abuses, including ones committed against China's Uighur minority.

Many thousands of Uighurs are believed to be imprisoned in 're-education centers' like this


The European Union's 27 ambassadors agreed on Wednesday to impose new sanctions on individuals from China and other countries over human rights abuses, two EU diplomats have said.

They will be the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown. The embargo is still in place.

China is the EU's second-largest trading partner.

The bloc's foreign ministers are expected to formally approve the sanctions on Monday.

Who is on the list?
The ambassadors have assembled a list of 11 names of individuals and entities to be hit by travel bans and asset freezes. It includes four Chinese officials and one entity accused of human rights abuses against China's Uighur Muslim minority, but will not be published until formal approval is given, EU diplomats said.

The lists also include officials from Russia, Libya, South Sudan and North Korea, diplomats said.

The agreement on sanctions comes after a planned visit by EU ambassadors to China's Xinjiang region, where the Uighurs largely live, was refused permission over a request to see jailed Uighur academic Ilham Tohti.

Tohti, an economist who received the EU's top human rights award, the Sakharov Prize, in 2019, was imprisoned for life on separatism charges in 2014

Muslim ex-internee tells harrowing story of life in China

Why has China so far not approved the visit?

China's ambassador to the EU, Zhang Ming, said on Tuesday that "almost everything had been arranged" for the ambassadors' visit but that "unacceptable requests" had led to snags.

"They insist on a meeting with one criminal convicted by Chinese law," he said. "This is unacceptable; I'm so sorry."
China strongly denies allegations that it has been repressing and mistreating Uighurs in Xinjiang, among other things by incarcerating them in "reeducation centers" that have been compared with prison camps.
tj/rt (Reuters, AFP)

EU agrees China sanctions over human rights abuses – DW – 03/17/2021

EU ambassadors have agreed on a list of persons and entities to be sanctioned for human rights abuses, including ones committed against China's Uighur minority.

www.dw.com

 

[xizhimen]

China's economy is skyrocketing and the west is in a downward spiral, thanks for their "sanctions", can anything be more funnier than this ?

The west had been in a dominant position for centuries and are so used to randomly sanctioning and bullying other countries at will, now the tables had been turned, they are in a weaker position that they have trouble to adjust themselves in. they still behave and act like a boss but in reality they are not much better than street beggars at China's mercy.

 

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EU agrees China sanctions over human rights abuses

EU ambassadors have agreed on a list of persons and entities to be sanctioned for human rights abuses, including ones committed against China's Uighur minority.

Many thousands of Uighurs are believed to be imprisoned in 're-education centers' like this


The European Union's 27 ambassadors agreed on Wednesday to impose new sanctions on individuals from China and other countries over human rights abuses, two EU diplomats have said.

They will be the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown. The embargo is still in place.

China is the EU's second-largest trading partner.

The bloc's foreign ministers are expected to formally approve the sanctions on Monday.

Who is on the list?
The ambassadors have assembled a list of 11 names of individuals and entities to be hit by travel bans and asset freezes. It includes four Chinese officials and one entity accused of human rights abuses against China's Uighur Muslim minority, but will not be published until formal approval is given, EU diplomats said.

The lists also include officials from Russia, Libya, South Sudan and North Korea, diplomats said.

The agreement on sanctions comes after a planned visit by EU ambassadors to China's Xinjiang region, where the Uighurs largely live, was refused permission over a request to see jailed Uighur academic Ilham Tohti.

Tohti, an economist who received the EU's top human rights award, the Sakharov Prize, in 2019, was imprisoned for life on separatism charges in 2014

Muslim ex-internee tells harrowing story of life in China

Why has China so far not approved the visit?

China's ambassador to the EU, Zhang Ming, said on Tuesday that "almost everything had been arranged" for the ambassadors' visit but that "unacceptable requests" had led to snags.

"They insist on a meeting with one criminal convicted by Chinese law," he said. "This is unacceptable; I'm so sorry."
China strongly denies allegations that it has been repressing and mistreating Uighurs in Xinjiang, among other things by incarcerating them in "reeducation centers" that have been compared with prison camps.
tj/rt (Reuters, AFP)

EU agrees China sanctions over human rights abuses – DW – 03/17/2021

EU ambassadors have agreed on a list of persons and entities to be sanctioned for human rights abuses, including ones committed against China's Uighur minority.

www.dw.com

It has not yet been announced and effective. Perhaps the EU will be dissolved, China will make Germany very uncomfortable.

 

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Europeans who occupied and abused half the planet, are now sanctioning others based on "reports" from a single Christian extremist openly funded by the US government (Adrain Zenz) who believes women's rights are the work of antichrist and Jews should be burned in a furnace.