The Trump administration announcement of the actions, initially expected on Tuesday, has been put off until later this week because of "scheduling issues," a spokesperson said.

'They're concentration camps at the moment. History shows what's going to happen.'

The sanctions add to U.S. pressure on Beijing over Xinjiang, where the ruling Communist Party is accused of mass detentions, forced labour, forced birth control and other abuses against Muslim minorities.

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country's Han majority to have more children.

Thousands of Uighurs were sent to work in factories across China -- “under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour.”

A newly revealed database exposes in extraordinary detail the main reasons for the detentions of hundreds of others in Karakax County: their religion and their family ties.

People fear the virus could quickly spread through Chinese detention camps.

Dozens of police marched across a public square overlooking Hong Kong's harbor to face off with protesters who hurled glass bottles and rocks at them.

A U.S. teen pretended to offer a makeup tutorial on TikTok before listing off the brutal ways China has allegedly persecuted its minority Uighur population.

Voluntary job training is the reason the Chinese government has given for detaining more than a million ethnic minorities, most of them Muslims.