BIS Adds 33 Entites, Mostly in China, to Entity List for Human Rights Abuses, Military Activities

The Bureau of Industry and Security is adding 33 companies and governmental bodies to the Entity List for their roles in military and proliferation activities and human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang province, BIS said May 22.

The two press releases do not mention an effective date, and the notices have yet to be filed for publication in the Federal Register.

Nine of the entities are being added for being “complicit in human rights violations and abuses committed in China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region,” BIS said.

Another 24 are being added “for engaging in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the U.S.,” and posing a “significant risk of supporting procurement of items for military end-use in China.”