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BIS Adds 33 Entities to Entity List for Xinjiang Human Rights Violations, Proliferation Activities

May 26, 2020 by Brian Feito|Top News

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 agency press releases do not mention an effective date.

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 (XUAR),” BIS said.

China’s Ministry of Public Security’s Institute of Forensic Science and Aksu Huafu Textiles Co. will now be on the list for “engaging in human rights violations and abuses in the XUAR,” BIS said. “An additional seven commercial entities will be to the list for enabling China’s high-technology surveillance in the XUAR: CloudWalk Technology; FiberHome Technologies Group and the subsidiary Nanjing FiberHome Starrysky Communication Development; NetPosa and the subsidiary SenseNets; Intellifusion; and IS’Vision.”

Their addition “will supplement BIS’s first tranche of Entity List designations in October 2019 involving 28 parties engaged in the XUAR repression campaign in Xinjiang,” BIS said (see 1910070076).

Another 24 companies and governmental organizations, “based in China, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands,” 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,” BIS said. These 24 new additions are as follows: