An advocacy group is calling on the Australian government to sanction Chinese officials for human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international non-governmental organization that works to raise awareness of human rights abuses globally, published an article on Sept. 13, urging the Australian government to “take firm action” against the Chinese government, and suggested that the actions include “imposing targeted sanctions” and “introducing legislation to prevent the import of goods made with forced labor.”
“Australia should impose targeted sanctions against Chinese government officials who are implicated in crimes against humanity and other grave abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang,” Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch, said….