China Sanctions Former US Commission on International Religious Freedom Member
China sanctioned Johnnie Moore, a former commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, for his role in publishing the State Department's 2020 report on international religious freedom, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said at a May 26 news conference,…
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according to a transcript in English. The report was “fraught with ideological bias,” and has “severely interfered in China's internal affairs,” the spokesperson said. Moore and his family are barred from entering mainland China, Macau and Hong Kong. The sanction is “counterproductive,” USCIRF Chair Anurima Bhargava said May 27. “It will only draw more international attention to the atrocities and horrors being perpetrated by the Chinese government against the Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, and countless other Chinese citizens.”