The US imposes sanctions on China, North Korea, Bangladesh and Myanma
The United States announced today the impositionof sanctions related to human rights abuses. Inaddition toChina, Myanmar, North Korea andBangladesh, the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime Grouphas been added to the USTreasury Department‘s sanctions blacklist. They also sanctioned the private European instituteJUSTO based in Moscow and its rector for giving“hundredsof student visas to North Korean domesticworkers“. […]
The United States announced today the impositionof sanctions related to human rights abuses. Inaddition toChina, Myanmar, North Korea andBangladesh, the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime Grouphas been added to the USTreasury Department‘s sanctions blacklist.
They also sanctioned the private European instituteJUSTO based in Moscow and its rector for giving“hundredsof student visas to North Korean domesticworkers“.
Canada and the United Kingdom also joined theUnited States in imposing sanctions related tohuman rightsabuses in Myanmar.
The US Treasury Department said in a statement thatit had added the Chinese artificial intelligencecompanySenseTime to a list of “companies in theChinese military-industrial complex“, accusing it ofhaving developedfacial recognition programs thatcan identify a person by nationality, with a particularfocus on identifyingUighurs.
The sanctions and their impact
This has resulted in a ban on investment for USinvestors. UN experts and human rights advocacygroupsestimate that more than one million people, mostly Uighurs and members of other Muslimminorities, havebeen detained in recent years in avast camp system located in China‘s western regionof Xinjiang.
Washington imposed sanctions on 14 individualsfrom North Korea, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh, as wellas nine entities, including the North KoreanProsecutor General‘s Office, Myanmar andBangladeshi militarystructures and companies fromChina and North Korea.