By Maya Lester KC & Michael O’Kane

US considers sanctions on China over Muslim detention camps

The US is considering sanctions against 7 Chinese officials, including Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party Chief in Xinjiang, over the region’s detention of an estimated one million people – predominantly ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minority groups – as part of the country’s wider counter-terrorism campaign. Chinese companies involved in building detention camps and surveillance systems used to track …

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Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters &...

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