Xinjiang
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INTRODUCTION
As many as 1.8 million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Muslim minorities are, or have been, arbitrarily detained in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The severe human rights abuses, torture, political indoctrination, forced renunciations of faith, and widespread and systematic forced labor occurring in mass internment camps may constitute crimes against humanity under international law.
The Chinese government has created a far-reaching system of forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) requiring current and former internment camp detainees to work in food and textile production and other manufacturing, including in factories outside the XUAR. Goods produced with forced labor have entered the U.S. and European markets and the risk of complicity in forced labor is high for any company importing goods directly from the XUAR or those partnering with Chinese companies that operate in the region. The gross human rights abuses, including forced labor, being committed in the XUAR deserve a robust, concerted response from the U.S. Government and the international community. U.S.
(Washington)—U.S. Representative James McGovern (D-MA) and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Chair and Cochair, respectively, of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China, today released a letter sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, urging stronger and more decisive actions to address “what may be crimes against humanity being committed in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).”
(Washington)— U.S. Representative James McGovern (D-MA) and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Chair and Cochair, respectively, of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), issued a joint statement following the Department of Commerce’s October 7th decision to place 28 Chinese governmental and commercial organizations on the Department’s “Entity List” and the State Department’s October 8th announcement of visa restrictions against Chinese officials responsible for the “detention or abuse of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
(Washington, D.C)—On the tenth anniversary of the protests and violence that took place in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Chair and Cochair respectively of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), issued the following statement urging immediate action to address the high-tech surveillance and mass internment of over a million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others in the XUAR.