Last Updated: December 11, 2024

Mingguo CHEN

Aliases

陈明国

Position

Secretary of Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and Member of the CCP Standing \nCommittee of the XUAR since February 2024.\nFormer Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB) (since January 2021) and Vice-Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) People’s Government.

Linked to

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202402999

Official reason

Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB) since January 2021 and Vice-Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) People’s Government. As Director of the XPSB, Chen Mingguo holds a key position in Xinjiang’s security apparatus and is directly involved in implementing a large-scale surveillance, detention and indoctrinati...

Other Information

(Date of UN designation: 2021-03-22)

Date of listing

2024-12-03

Program information

Authority

EU

Program

Restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses

Regime

EU-horizontal

Target State

Human Rights

Measures

Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission

Sanctions Portfolio

- All assets of the listed persons and entities should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in the Annex of Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999

Official Information

On 9 December 2019, the Council welcomed the launch by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of preparatory work to establish a horizontal EU sanctions regime against serious human rights violations and abuses. On 17 November 2020, the Council approved conclusions on the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Demo...

Program URL

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02020D1999-20211213