China sanctions a US research firm and 2 individuals over reports on human rights abuses in Xinjiang

BEIJING (AP) — China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups native to the country’s northwest. China is accused of sending Muslims to prison camps for brainwashing and forced labor. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning was quoted as announcing late Tuesday night that research and data analytics firm Kharon, along with its director of investigations and a human rights analyst at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, would be barred from traveling to China. Any assets or property they have in China will be frozen and organizations and individuals in China are prohibited from making transactions with them.