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Senators call for new sanctions against China’s human rights abuses

By Joel Gehrke
Published November 14, 2018 7:32pm ET
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Senators call for new sanctions against China’s human rights abuses
Heavily armed Chinese paramilitary policemen march past the site of the explosion outside the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Thursday, May 1, 2014. Chinese President Xi Jinping has demanded "decisive actions" against terrorism following the attack at the railway station in the far west minority region of Xinjiang that left three people dead and 79 injured. | (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A bipartisan group of senators wants the Trump administration to punish China’s repression of an ethnic Muslim minority and has introduced legislation to impose new sanctions on Chinese officials.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., led 15 other senators on a bill to sanction Chinese Communist Party officials responsible for human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The bill also directs the administration to report more fully on China’s repression and take steps to protect Uighur Muslims in the United States from Chinese harassment.

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