The US government has added 11 Chinese companies to its economic blacklist due to alleged human rights violations against China's Muslim minority groups including Uighurs. The US Department of Commerce announced on Monday a list of 11 Chinese companies and organizations, including auto parts manufacturer KTK Group and a biometric research institution. The department said these companies were "implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor, involuntary collection of biometric data and genetic analyses targeted at ... (full story)