US Imposes Sanctions on Officials from China and Other Human Rights Violating Countries on Human Rights Day

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[Asia Economy New York=Correspondent Baek Jong-min] The U.S. government imposed a series of sanctions on China, Russia, and others in observance of World Human Rights Day.

Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, announced sanctions on 17 individuals from China, Jamaica, and El Salvador and their immediate family members in a statement on the 10th (local time). Secretary Pompeo cited "serious human rights violations" as the reason for the sanctions.

The Chinese individuals targeted were public security officials and their spouses involved in "severe human rights abuses" against Falun Gong practitioners.

On the same day, the Treasury Department also sanctioned Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, a Muslim-majority region in Russia, along with human rights violators from Russia, Yemen, and Haiti, freezing their assets within the United States. Kadyrov is a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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