Last Updated: January 19, 2026

MINGGUO CHEN

Position

Director of the Public Security Department of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Government

Nationality

China

DoB

dd/10/1966

Address

Xinjiang, China

Official reason

Chen Mingguo is a provincial-level Chinese Communist Party and State official in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). He holds positions as a Vice Chairman of the Government of the XUAR, and the Director of the XUAR Public Security Department. In these positions, he bears responsibility for the administration of China's so called "re-educa...

Other Information

The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

Date of listing

2021-03-22

Program information

Authority

UK

Program

The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020

Regime

UK horizontal

Target State

Human Rights

Measures

Asset freeze and making available provisions, Travel bans

Sanctions Portfolio

• The Regulations impose financial sanctions through a targeted asset freeze on designated persons and prohibitions on making funds or economic resources available. This involves the freezing of funds and economic resources (non-monetary assets, such as property or vehicles) of designated persons and ensuring that funds and economic resources are n...

Official Information

The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 put in place sanctions measures to deter, and provide accountability for, activities which, if carried out by or on behalf of a State within the territory of that State, would amount to a serious violation by that State of an individual’s: • right to life • right not to be subjected to torture or ...

Additional Details

Licensing and exception provisions are contained in Part 5 of the Regulations.

Program URL

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/680