New Delhi: The Government of the United States of America (US) has imposed sanctions on ‘CHINA’, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and other countries where Human Rights violations raised steadily. U.S President Joe Biden on Friday said that that “Commitments made by some of the more than 100 world leaders at the summit would push back against rising autocracy, fight corruption and promote human rights.”
The U.S Government has imposed extensive human rights-related sanctions on 15 people and 10 entities tied to China, Myanmar, North Korea, and Bangladesh, and added a Chinese artificial intelligence company to an investment blacklist.
The actions announced by the Treasury Department also included investment restrictions on a Chinese company connected to the mass government surveillance operations in China. The sanctions are intended to freeze the targeted people and entities out of the global financial system.
Canada and the United Kingdom joined the United States in imposing sanctions related to human rights abuses in Myanmar, while Washington also imposed the first new sanctions on North Korea under President Joe Biden’s administration and targeted Myanmar military entities, among others, in action marking Human Rights Day.
Wally Adeyemo – Deputy Secretary of the Treasury on International Human Rights Day said “Treasury is using its tools to expose and hold accountable perpetrators of serious human rights abuse,”
According to the media report, the measures include a ban on travel to the US for two Chinese government officials who have been involved with the repression of Uyghurs and other minorities in the far western Xinjiang region of their country.
Treasury imposed investment restrictions on Chinese firm Sense Time Group Ltd, which is involved with the development of facial recognition programs that can determine a person’s ethnicity and has been used as part of the surveillance campaign against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities.
This latest batch of sanctions also includes actions on officials in Bangladesh who are involved with the country’s anti-drug Rapid Action Battalion. Actions against four officials in Myanmar and several entities are the latest in a series of U.S.
(_Vinayak Barot)