The United States has sanctioned five Chinese companies over their alleged role in the repression of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China’s Xinjiang region, the U.S. Commerce Department said on March 28.
The companies were accused of implicating human rights abuses in “China’s campaign of repression, arbitrary mass detention and high-technology surveillance against the Uyghur people and members of other Muslim minority groups” in Xinjiang, the department said.
The U.S. sanctions specifically targeted Yutian Haishi Meitian Electronic Technology and four subsidiaries of the Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision—namely Luopu Haishi Dingxin Electronic Technology, Moyu Haishi Electronic Technology, Pishan Haishi Yong’an Electronic Technology, and Urumqi Haishi Xin’an Electronic Technology….