US restricts visas for Chinese officials over 'campaign to erase religion' in Xinjiang

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The US has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese government and Communist party officials accused of being involved in the mass internment of more than a million Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang province.
The restrictions, announced by the state department on Tuesday, come a day after the US commerce department imposed export restrictions on US companies preventing them from selling their products – particularly face recognition and other surveillance technology – to 28 Chinese entities, including the Public Security Bureau and firms involved in surveillance in Xinjiang.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/08/us-restricts-visas-chinese-officials-uighurs-muslim-minorities

China has been engaged in a campaign that aims to eliminate religion among the Uighur Muslim population of Xinjiang Province. They cloak it in the language of "fighting terrorism", but it has the dual aims of both seizing resources and attacking religion.