The United States added 28 Chinese security agencies and companies involved in a crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang province to a list restricting licenses needed to trade with the United States, the US Commerce Department said on Monday, Trend reports citing Sputnik.
"These twenty-eight entities have been determined by the US Government to be acting contrary to the foreign policy interests of the United States", the Commerce Department said in a notice published in the Federal Register.
More than half of the targeted agencies are police departments affiliated with the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region People’s Government Security Bureau, the notice said.