US blacklists 28 Chinese entities over 'brutal' Xinjiang abuses

Right groups say China has detained around one million Uighurs and other Muslims in re-education camps in western Xinjiang region.

The US is to blacklist 28 Chinese entities that it says are implicated in rights violations and abuses targeting Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region, the commerce department announced.

The United States "cannot and will not tolerate the brutal suppression of ethnic minorities within China," Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said, announcing the move, which bars the named entities from purchasing US products.