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Treasury Sanctions Chinese Entity and Officials Pursuant to Global Magnitsky
Human Rights Accountability Act
16537
July 9, 2020
Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned one Chinese government entity and
four current or former government officials in connection with serious
rights abuses against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
Region (XUAR). These designations include Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party
Secretary of XUAR, and Zhu Hailun, a former Deputy Party Secretary of the
XUAR. Also designated today is the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB),
as well as the current Director and Communist Party Secretary of the XPSB,
Wang Mingshan, and the former Party Secretary of the XPSB, Huo Liujun. The
entity and officials are being designated for their connection to serious
human rights abuse against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, which reportedly
include mass arbitrary detention and severe physical abuse, among other
serious abuses targeting Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim population indigenous to
Xinjiang, and other ethnic minorities in the region.
“The United States is committed to using the full breadth of its financial
powers to hold human rights abusers accountable in Xinjiang and across the
world,” said Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin.
This action is being taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, “
Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or
Corruption,” which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human
Rights Accountability Act.
These designations are the latest U.S. government actions in an ongoing
effort to deter human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region. On July 1, 2020,
the U.S. Department of State, along with the U.S. Department of the
Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, issued the Xinjiang Supply Chain Business Advisory,
advising businesses with potential supply chain exposure to Xinjiang to
consider the reputational, economic, and legal risks of involvement with
entities that engage in human rights abuses in Xinjiang, such as forced
labor. On May 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce added nine PRC
entities related to human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region to the
Commerce Entity List; this action complemented the October 2019 addition to
the Commerce Entity List of 28 entities engaged in the PRC repression
campaign in the Xinjiang region. Also, in October 2019, the U.S. Department
of State announced a visa restriction policy under section 212 (a)(3)(C) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act for PRC and Chinese Communist Party (CCP
) officials responsible for, or complicit in, human rights abuses in
Xinjiang.
CHEN QUANGUO AND ZHU HAILUN
The Xinjiang region in western China is home to Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs,
ethnic Kyrgyz, and other traditionally Muslim minority groups. XUAR is the
regional government of Xinjiang and falls under the governance of the PRC.
Chen Quanguo (Chen) is the Party Secretary of the XUAR, a position he was
appointed to in 2016, following Chen’s notorious history of intensifying
security operations in the Tibetan Autonomous Region to tighten control over
the Tibetan ethnic minorities. While Chen was already known for his ability
to control “ethnic unrest,” when he got to Xinjiang, he had a deputy who
understood the Xinjiang region, Zhu Hailun (Zhu), who for the past few
decades had held several positions in the Chinese Communist Party, prior to
holding the position of Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Political and Legal
Committee (XPLC) from 2016 to 2019. In this role, Zhu was responsible for
maintaining internal security and law enforcement in the XUAR; while Zhu
left this role in 2019, he still currently serves as the Deputy Secretary of
Xinjiang’s People’s Congress, a regional legislative body. Following his
arrival to the region, Chen began implementing a comprehensive surveillance,
detention, and indoctrination program in Xinjiang, targeting Uyghurs and
other ethnic minorities through the XPSB.
As a part of Chen’s plans, the large-scale construction of mass detention
camps, labelled “training centers,” greatly escalated in 2017, and as the
Party Secretary of the XPLC, Zhu established the policies and procedures for
managing these detention camps with the purported goal of using the camps
to fight terrorism and maintain stability. Zhu’s policies outlined how the
detention camps would operate, to include not allowing “escapes” and “
abnormal deaths.” At the same time, former detainees of these detention
camps report that deaths occurred among fellow detainees after torture and
abuse at the hands of the security officials. A large focus of these
detention camps was constant surveillance, even while detainees remain
totally cut off from the outside world.
Chen is being designated for being a foreign person who is or has been a
leader or official of an entity, including any government entity, that has
engaged in, or whose members have engaged in serious human rights abuse
relating to the leader’s or official’s tenure, and Zhu is being designated
for being a foreign person who is responsible for or complicit in, or has
directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse.
REPRESSION IN THE XUAR: XINJIANG PUBLIC SECURITY BUREAU, HUO LIUJUN, AND
WANG MINGSHAN
Since at least late 2016, repressive tactics have been used by the XPSB
against the Uyghurs and members of other ethnic minority groups in the
region, including mass detentions and surveillance. The PRC’s surveillance
has targeted members of religious and ethnic minority groups, as the Chinese
government treats almost all expressions of faith as a sign of religious “
extremism” or ethnic separatism. Targets of this surveillance are often
detained and reportedly subjected to various methods of torture and “
political reeducation.” According to press reporting, since at least 2017,
more than one million Muslims have been held in these camps.
Under the command of Huo Liujun (Huo), leader of the XPSB from at least
March 2017 to 2018, and Wang Mingshan (Wang), leader of the XPSB since at
least May 2018, the XPSB has deployed the “Integrated Joint Operations
Platform” (IJOP), an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted computer system
that created biometric records for millions of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang
region. The XPSB, through the IJOP, uses digital surveillance systems to
track Uyghurs’ movements and activities, to include surveilling who they
interact with and what they read. In turn, IJOP uses this data to determine
which persons could be potential threats; according to reports, some of
these individuals are subsequently detained and sent to detention camps,
being held indefinitely without charges or trial. The IJOP AI platform is
one of the first examples of governments using AI for racial profiling.
According to press reporting, the IJOP technology looks exclusively for
Uyghurs, based on their appearance, and keeps records of their movements.
The mass detention of Uyghurs is part of an effort by PRC authorities to use
detentions and data-driven surveillance to create a police state in the
Xinjiang region.
The XPSB is being designated for being a foreign person responsible for, or
complicit in, or that has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human
rights abuse. Huo and Wang are each being designated for being a foreign
person who is or has been a leader or official of an entity whose property
and interests in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 13818 as a result of
activities related to the leaders’ or officials’ tenure.
SANCTIONS IMPLICATIONS
As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of
the entity and individuals named above, and of any entities that are owned,
directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more by them, individually, or with
other blocked persons, that are in the United States or in the possession or
control of U.S. persons, are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. Unless
authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC or otherwise
exempt, OFAC’s regulations generally prohibit all transactions by U.S.
persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any
property or interests in property of designated or otherwise blocked persons
. The prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of
funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any blocked person
or the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods or services
from any such person.
GLOBAL MAGNITSKY
Building upon the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, the
President signed E.O. 13818 on December 20, 2017, in which the President
found that the prevalence of human rights abuse and corruption that have
their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States,
had reached such scope and gravity that it threatens the stability of
international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and
corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable,
secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals;
weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent
conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine
economic markets. The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant
consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuse or engage in
corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States
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: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1055
: Treasury Sanctions Chinese Entity and Officials Pursuant to Global Magnitsky
: Human Rights Accountability Act
: 16537
: July 9, 2020
: Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of
: Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned one Chinese government entity and
: four current or former government officials in connection with serious
: rights abuses against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
: Region (XUAR). These designations include Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party
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发帖数: 58 | 7 五毛就别放屁了，身为江苏省委书记香港新华社社长的许家屯怎么逃到美国的？你们五
毛的头司马南说，反美是工作，留美是生活，你们五毛就是个笑话。
【在 j****z 的大作中提到】
: 美帝越是制裁陈全国之类的，就越是让陈全国之类的人兢兢业业，越不会有二心，没有
: 任何退路的共产党员绝对是最忠诚的
| j****z
发帖数: 299 | 8
那么多党员，怎么可能做得到每个都忠诚，跑掉的占比都没有0.1%，就不算事，人渣在
哪都有，只要不是多数就好
【在 o******y 的大作中提到】
: 五毛就别放屁了，身为江苏省委书记香港新华社社长的许家屯怎么逃到美国的？你们五
: 毛的头司马南说，反美是工作，留美是生活，你们五毛就是个笑话。
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