The United States added two Chinese companies to a trade restriction list on Tuesday for allegedly enabling human rights violations as President Joe Biden kept up the pressure on Beijing in the waning days of his administration.

Axar.az reports that citing Reuters, the Commerce Department, which oversees export policy, added Zhejiang Uniview Technologies Co., Ltd. to the entity list, "because it enables human rights violations, including high-technology surveillance targeted at the general population, Uyghurs, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups," the agency said in a filing.

China's Beijing Zhongdun Security Technology Group Co., Ltd. was added for selling products that "enable China’s public security establishment to carry out human rights violations".

The businesses were added to an “entity list,” which requires US companies to have a license before exporting to them.

Adding these companies to the entity list aims to ensure that US technology is not used to enable human rights violations and abuses.