Uighurs: China sanctions UK MPs over abuses responseon March 26, 2021 at 3:03 am

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It comes after the UK government took action over human rights abuses against the Uighur minority.

The nine people facing sanctions are Tory MPs Sir Iain, Tom Tugendhat, Neil O’Brien, Tim Loughton, and Nusrat Ghani; the peers Lord Alton and Baroness Kennedy; a lawyer, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, and an academic, Jo Smith Finley.

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