US sanctions Chinese officials for repression of Uyghurs

March 22, 2022

“It is absolutely inappropriate for an organization purporting to support Muslims around the world to invite the government responsible for abolishing religious expression for Uyghur Muslims, an outright genocide and an all-out war on Islam in the Uyghur homeland,” said Omer Kanat, executive director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project in Washington, D.C.

“The OIC has been shamefully silent on China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in recent years, despite expressing public concern for the treatment of Muslims in other countries,” he said in a statement.

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