*U.K. ANNOUNCES SANCTIONS AGAINST 4 SENIOR CHINESE OFFICIALS: PA
— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) March 22, 2021
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...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...imposes sanctions on four Chinese officials accused of responsibility for abuses against Uighur Moslems in a raft of measures targeting alleged human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
offenders around the world, despite warnings that Beijing could retaliate.
The four are bigwigs in the northwest region of Xinjiang.
The sanctions involve a freeze on their assets in the EU and a ban on them traveling in the bloc. European citizens and companies are not permitted to provide them with financial assistance.
China at first denied the existence of camps for detaining Uighurs in Xinjiang but has since described them as centers to provide job training and reeducate those exposed to radical jihadi thinking. Officials deny all charges of human rights abuses there.
The new EU sanction system is similar to the Magnitsky Act — Obama-era legislation that authorizes the US government to sanction those it sees as human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
offenders, freeze their assets and ban them from entering the United States.
EU foreign ministers, as part of today’s move, also impose sanctions over repression in North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche..., "extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Libya, torture and repression against LGBTI persons and political opponents in Chechnya in Russia, and torture, extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings in South Sudan and Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
," a statement says.