The U.S. Department of Commerce added a further 11 Chinese firms to its list of those involved in human rights violations, CNET reported. Violations include attacks on Muslim minority groups. One of those, Nanchang O-Film Tech, is known to have associations with Apple.
The Commerce Department said the group of 11 companies that supported « mass arbitrary detention, forced labor, involuntary collection of biometric data and genetic analysis » targeted at Uighurs and other minority groups will face restrictions on US products, including technology. « Beijing actively promotes the reprehensible practice of forced labor and abusive DNA collection and analysis schemes to repress its citizens, » Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said in a statement Monday. « This action will ensure that our goods and technologies are not used in the Chinese Communist Party’s despicable offensive against defenseless Muslim minority populations. »
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