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China hits back at EU with sanctions on 10 people, four entities over Xinjiang

Published 03/22/2021, 09:59 PM
Updated 03/22/2021, 10:00 PM
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BEIJING, March 22 (Reuters) - China on Monday blacklisted 10
EU individuals and four entities in response to Brussels'
sanctions against Chinese officials over alleged human rights
abuses in the Xinjiang region.
The Chinese foreign ministry said members of the European
Parliament Reinhard Butikofer, Michael Gahler, Raphael
Glucksmann, Ilhan Kyuchyuk and Miriam Lexmann were among those
who "severely harm China's sovereignty and interests and
maliciously spread lies and disinformation."
The EU had earlier accused Chinese officials of mass
detentions of Muslim Uighurs and human rights abuses in Xinjiang
and imposed its first sanctions against Beijing since an arms
embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
The other individuals sanctioned by China were Dutch
politician Sjoerd Wiemer Sjoerdsma, Belgian parliamentarian
Samuel Cogolati, Lithuanian member of parliament Dovile
Sakaliene and two scholars - Adrian Zenz of Germany and Bjorn
Jerden of Sweden.
"The individuals concerned and their families are prohibited
from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao of China," the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. "They and companies and
institutions associated with them are also restricted from doing
business with China."
The entities sanctioned are the Political and Security
Committee of the Council of the European Union; the Subcommittee
on Human Rights of the European Parliament; the Mercator
Institute for China Studies in Germany, and the Alliance of
Democracies Foundation in Denmark.

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