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Anti-China protests held throughout US over its human rights abuse, particularly of Tibetan and Uyghur communities

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Condemning the Chinese authorities’s rights abuses, numerous ethnic teams together with members of the Tibetan and Uyghur neighborhood protested in cities on the West Coast of the United States.

Protests have been held on Human Rights Day on December 10 in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Braving inclement climate together with heavy rainfall and excessive winds, scores of individuals protested in entrance of the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco. Protests have been held on the long-lasting interstate freeway I-5 in Seattle and in Downtown Portland. This is the primary time that anti-China protests have been held in Seattle and Portland.

Some of the protestors in several cities have been seen holding a clean paper of their palms in help of the current anti-COVID demonstration held in China.

Blank sheets of paper, held by Chinese protestors, have develop into an emblem of a mass rebellion being witnessed towards the strict zero-COVID coverage of Communist-ruled China.

White papers are metaphors for the numerous important posts, information articles, and outspoken social media accounts that have been wiped from the web, CNN reported.

China’s crackdown on anti-COVID protests has prompted calls from the worldwide neighborhood to face beside the protesters and take motion towards the Chinese authorities.

These protests got here on the event of International Anti-Corruption Day and on the eve of International Human Rights Day, the United States is taking the next actions to advertise accountability for corruption and human rights abuse around the globe.

On Friday, the US Department of Treasury stated that sanctions have been introduced towards two Chinese officers for severe human rights abuse within the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Chinese officers Wu Yingjie (Wu) and Zhang Hongbo (Zhang) have been named on the record.

Wu Yingjie was the TAR Party Secretary between 2016 and 2021 and directed authorities officers to have interaction in stability insurance policies, based on US Treasury Department.

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