China’s treatment of the Uighur people amounts to torture, the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said as he set out measures designed to ensure no companies allow the use of forced labour from Xinjiang province in their supply chain. But the foreign secretary held back from imposing sanctions against any individual Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses, saying “he will keep that in reserve”. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dominic Raab makes a statement on trade measures over China’s human rights violations against Uighur people. Photograph: PRU/AFP/GettyDescribing the position as harrowing, he added: “The nature and conditions of detention violate basic standards of human rights and, at their worst, amount to torture. Internment camps, arbitrary detention, political re-education, forced labour, torture, forced sterilisation.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2021 16:30 UTC