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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2635 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To support the human rights of Uyghurs and members of other minority |
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| 6 | 6 | | groups residing primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |
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| 7 | 7 | | and safeguard their distinct identity, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | APRIL3, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mrs. K |
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| 11 | 11 | | IM(for herself, Mr. BERA, and Mr. MEEKS) introduced the following |
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| 12 | 12 | | bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To support the human rights of Uyghurs and members of |
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| 15 | 15 | | other minority groups residing primarily in the Xinjiang |
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| 16 | 16 | | Uyghur Autonomous Region and safeguard their distinct |
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| 17 | 17 | | identity, and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Uyghur Policy Act of 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | 2025’’. 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Congress finds the following: 7 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (1) The People’s Republic of China (PRC) con-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | tinues to repress the distinct Islamic, Turkic identity 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | of Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and reli-3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | gious minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au-4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | tonomous Region (XUAR) in northwestern China 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | and other areas of their habitual residence. 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) Uyghurs, and other predominantly Muslim 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ethnic minorities historically making up the majority 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | of the XUAR population, have maintained through-9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | out their history a distinct religious and cultural 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | identity. 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (3) Human rights, including freedom of religion 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | or belief, and respect for the Uyghurs’ unique Mus-13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | lim identity are legitimate interests of the inter-14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | national community. 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (4) The PRC has ratified the International 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | and is thereby bound by its provisions. The PRC has 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | also signed the International Covenant on Civil and 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Political Rights. 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (5) An official campaign to encourage Han Chi-21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | nese migration into the XUAR has placed immense 22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | pressure on those who seek to preserve the ethnic, 23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions of the 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority 1 |
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| 56 | 56 | | groups. 2 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (6) PRC authorities have supported an influx of 3 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Han Chinese economic immigrants into the XUAR, 4 |
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| 59 | 59 | | implemented discrimination against Uyghurs and 5 |
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| 60 | 60 | | other minorities in hiring practices, and provided un-6 |
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| 61 | 61 | | equal access to healthcare services. 7 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (7) PRC authorities have manipulated the stra-8 |
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| 63 | 63 | | tegic objectives of the international war on terror to 9 |
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| 64 | 64 | | mask their increasing cultural and religious oppres-10 |
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| 65 | 65 | | sion of the Muslim population residing in the 11 |
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| 66 | 66 | | XUAR. 12 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (8) Following unrest in the region, in 2014, 13 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Chinese authorities launched their ‘‘Strike Hard 14 |
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| 69 | 69 | | against Violent Extremism’’ campaign, in which du-15 |
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| 70 | 70 | | bious allegations of widespread extremist activity 16 |
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| 71 | 71 | | were used as justification for gross human rights 17 |
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| 72 | 72 | | violations committed against Uyghurs and members 18 |
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| 73 | 73 | | of other minority communities in the XUAR. 19 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (9) PRC authorities have made use of the legal 20 |
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| 75 | 75 | | system as a tool of repression, including for the im-21 |
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| 76 | 76 | | position of arbitrary detentions and for torture 22 |
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| 77 | 77 | | against members of the Uyghur community and 23 |
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| 78 | 78 | | other minority populations. 24 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (10) Uyghurs and Kazakhs who have secured 1 |
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| 83 | 83 | | citizenship or permanent residency outside of the 2 |
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| 84 | 84 | | PRC have attested to repeated threats, harassment, 3 |
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| 85 | 85 | | and surveillance by PRC officials. 4 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (11) Reporting from international news organi-5 |
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| 87 | 87 | | zations has found that over the past decade, family 6 |
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| 88 | 88 | | members of Uyghurs and other minority groups liv-7 |
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| 89 | 89 | | ing outside of the PRC have gone missing or been 8 |
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| 90 | 90 | | detained to force Uyghur expatriates to return to 9 |
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| 91 | 91 | | the PRC or silence their dissent. 10 |
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| 92 | 92 | | (12) In 2017, Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Serv-11 |
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| 93 | 93 | | ice was the first media organization to report on the 12 |
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| 94 | 94 | | PRC’s vast, mass arbitrary-detention program in the 13 |
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| 95 | 95 | | XUAR in 2017. 14 |
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| 96 | 96 | | (13) Credible evidence from human rights orga-15 |
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| 97 | 97 | | nizations, think tanks, and journalists confirms that 16 |
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| 98 | 98 | | more than 1,000,000 Uyghurs and members of other 17 |
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| 99 | 99 | | ethnic minority groups have been imprisoned in 18 |
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| 100 | 100 | | extrajudicial ‘‘political reeducation’’ centers. 19 |
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| 101 | 101 | | (14) Independent accounts from former detain-20 |
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| 102 | 102 | | ees of ‘‘political reeducation’’ centers describe inhu-21 |
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| 103 | 103 | | mane conditions and treatment including forced po-22 |
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| 104 | 104 | | litical indoctrination, torture, beatings, rape, forced 23 |
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| 105 | 105 | | sterilization, and food deprivation. 24 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (15) Former detainees also confirmed that they 1 |
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| 110 | 110 | | were told by guards that the only way to secure re-2 |
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| 111 | 111 | | lease was to demonstrate sufficient political loyalty 3 |
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| 112 | 112 | | to the PRC Government. 4 |
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| 113 | 113 | | (16) Popular discourse surrounding the ongoing 5 |
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| 114 | 114 | | atrocities in the XUAR and advocacy efforts to as-6 |
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| 115 | 115 | | sist Uyghurs remains muted in most Muslim major-7 |
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| 116 | 116 | | ity nations around the world. 8 |
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| 117 | 117 | | (17) Former Secretary of States Antony 9 |
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| 118 | 118 | | Blinken and Michael Pompeo and Secretary of State 10 |
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| 119 | 119 | | Marco Rubio confirmed that the PRC Government 11 |
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| 120 | 120 | | has committed genocide and crimes against human-12 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ity against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious 13 |
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| 122 | 122 | | minorities in the XUAR. 14 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (18) Government bodies of multiple nations 15 |
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| 124 | 124 | | have also declared that PRC Government’s atrocities 16 |
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| 125 | 125 | | against such populations in the XUAR constitute 17 |
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| 126 | 126 | | genocide, including the parliaments of the United 18 |
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| 127 | 127 | | Kingdom, Belgium, Czechia, Lithuania, the Nether-19 |
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| 128 | 128 | | lands, and Canada. 20 |
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| 129 | 129 | | SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 21 |
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| 130 | 130 | | It is the Sense of Congress that— 22 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (1) the Government of the People’s Republic of 23 |
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| 132 | 132 | | China should immediately open the Xinjiang Uyghur 24 |
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| 133 | 133 | | Autonomous Region (XUAR) to regular, trans-25 |
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| 137 | 137 | | parent, and unmanipulated visits by members of the 1 |
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| 138 | 138 | | press, international organizations including the Of-2 |
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| 139 | 139 | | fice of the United Nations High Commissioner for 3 |
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| 140 | 140 | | Human Rights, academic and human rights research 4 |
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| 141 | 141 | | institutions, as well as foreign delegations including 5 |
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| 142 | 142 | | from the United States Congress; 6 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (2) the Government of the People’s Republic of 7 |
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| 144 | 144 | | China should recognize, and take tangible steps to 8 |
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| 145 | 145 | | protect and preserve, the distinct ethnic, cultural, re-9 |
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| 146 | 146 | | ligious, and linguistic identity of Uyghurs and mem-10 |
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| 147 | 147 | | bers of other ethnic and religious minority groups in 11 |
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| 148 | 148 | | the XUAR; 12 |
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| 149 | 149 | | (3) the Government of the People’s Republic of 13 |
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| 150 | 150 | | China should cease all government-sponsored crack-14 |
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| 151 | 151 | | downs, imprisonments, and detentions of people 15 |
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| 152 | 152 | | throughout the XUAR aimed at repressing their eth-16 |
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| 153 | 153 | | nic, cultural, political, or religious identities; 17 |
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| 154 | 154 | | (4) the Government of the People’s Republic of 18 |
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| 155 | 155 | | China should cease all government-sponsored 19 |
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| 156 | 156 | | transnational repression of Uyghurs, including the 20 |
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| 157 | 157 | | detainment, harassment, intimidation, and surveil-21 |
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| 158 | 158 | | lance of the family members of exiled Uyghurs and 22 |
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| 159 | 159 | | Uyghur activists; 23 |
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| 160 | 160 | | (5) it is commendable for countries to provide 24 |
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| 161 | 161 | | shelter and hospitality to Uyghurs and other minor-25 |
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| 165 | 165 | | ity group members in exile, as Turkey, Albania, and 1 |
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| 166 | 166 | | Germany have done; 2 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (6) urges all countries, especially fellow democ-3 |
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| 168 | 168 | | racies and those with sizeable Muslim populations, 4 |
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| 169 | 169 | | to condemn and address the plight of Uyghurs and 5 |
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| 170 | 170 | | other minority communities in the XUAR; 6 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (7) the Government of the People’s Republic of 7 |
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| 172 | 172 | | China should immediately and unconditionally re-8 |
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| 173 | 173 | | lease all prisoners that have been detained for their 9 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ethnic, cultural, religious, and linguistic identities, 10 |
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| 175 | 175 | | for expressing their political or religious beliefs in 11 |
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| 176 | 176 | | the XUAR, or for being related to members of the 12 |
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| 177 | 177 | | Uyghur diaspora or activist community including— 13 |
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| 178 | 178 | | (A) Ekper Asat, who participated in the 14 |
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| 179 | 179 | | Department of State’s International Visitors 15 |
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| 180 | 180 | | Leadership Program in 2016, was incarcerated 16 |
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| 181 | 181 | | after returning to the XUAR, and is now serv-17 |
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| 182 | 182 | | ing a 15 year prison sentence on charges of ‘‘in-18 |
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| 183 | 183 | | citing ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination’’; 19 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (B) Dr. Gulshan Abbas, a retired medical 20 |
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| 185 | 185 | | doctor and Uyghur, who was wrongfully de-21 |
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| 186 | 186 | | tained in the XUAR on September 11, 2018, 22 |
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| 187 | 187 | | and unjustly sentenced to 20 years in prison in 23 |
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| 188 | 188 | | retaliation for her sister’s advocacy for Uyghur 24 |
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| 189 | 189 | | human rights issues; and 25 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (C) Kamile Wayit, a university student 1 |
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| 194 | 194 | | and Uyghur, who was wrongfully detained on 2 |
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| 195 | 195 | | December 12, 2022, after returning to the 3 |
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| 196 | 196 | | XUAR while on break from studying during the 4 |
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| 197 | 197 | | winter holiday; 5 |
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| 198 | 198 | | (8) the Government of the People’s Republic of 6 |
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| 199 | 199 | | China should facilitate access for international hu-7 |
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| 200 | 200 | | manitarian organizations, including the Inter-8 |
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| 201 | 201 | | national Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent 9 |
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| 202 | 202 | | Societies, to the ‘‘political reeducation’’ centers in 10 |
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| 203 | 203 | | the XUAR to ensure prisoners are not being mis-11 |
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| 204 | 204 | | treated and are receiving necessary medical care; 12 |
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| 205 | 205 | | and 13 |
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| 206 | 206 | | (9) the Department of State should continue to 14 |
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| 207 | 207 | | facilitate the unhindered dissemination of informa-15 |
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| 208 | 208 | | tion to the international community on issues re-16 |
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| 209 | 209 | | garding the human rights, religious freedom, and 17 |
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| 210 | 210 | | transnational repression of Uyghurs and members of 18 |
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| 211 | 211 | | other minority groups in the XUAR. 19 |
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| 212 | 212 | | SEC. 4. UNITED STATES STRENGTHENING OF COORDINA-20 |
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| 213 | 213 | | TION ON UYGHUR ISSUES. 21 |
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| 214 | 214 | | (a) I |
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| 215 | 215 | | NGENERAL.—The Secretary of State, as appro-22 |
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| 216 | 216 | | priate, shall— 23 |
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| 220 | 220 | | (1) prioritize policies, programs, and projects to 1 |
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| 221 | 221 | | support the Uyghurs and members of other ethnic 2 |
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| 222 | 222 | | and religious minority groups in the XUAR; 3 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (2) vigorously promote the policy of seeking to 4 |
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| 224 | 224 | | protect the distinct ethnic, religious, cultural, and 5 |
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| 225 | 225 | | linguistic identity of the Uyghurs and other minority 6 |
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| 226 | 226 | | groups and seek improved protection of human 7 |
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| 227 | 227 | | rights in the XUAR; 8 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (3) direct the State Department to maintain 9 |
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| 229 | 229 | | close contact with Uyghur religious, cultural, and 10 |
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| 230 | 230 | | political leaders, including seeking regular travel to 11 |
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| 231 | 231 | | the XUAR and to Uyghur populations in Central 12 |
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| 232 | 232 | | Asia, Turkey, Albania, Germany, and other parts of 13 |
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| 233 | 233 | | Europe; 14 |
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| 234 | 234 | | (4) lead coordination efforts for the release of 15 |
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| 235 | 235 | | political prisoners in the XUAR who are being de-16 |
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| 236 | 236 | | tained for exercising their human rights or being rel-17 |
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| 237 | 237 | | atives of exiled Uyghurs; 18 |
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| 238 | 238 | | (5) consult with the United States Congress on 19 |
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| 239 | 239 | | policies relevant to the XUAR and the Uyghurs; 20 |
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| 240 | 240 | | (6) coordinate with relevant Federal agencies to 21 |
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| 241 | 241 | | administer aid to Uyghur rights advocates; 22 |
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| 242 | 242 | | (7) make efforts to establish contacts with for-23 |
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| 243 | 243 | | eign ministries of other countries, especially in Eu-24 |
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| 244 | 244 | | rope, Central Asia, and members of the Organisation 25 |
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| 248 | 248 | | of Islamic Cooperation, to pursue a policy of pro-1 |
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| 249 | 249 | | moting greater respect for human rights and reli-2 |
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| 250 | 250 | | gious freedom for Uyghurs and other ethnic and re-3 |
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| 251 | 251 | | ligious minority groups from the XUAR; 4 |
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| 252 | 252 | | (8) utilize the Organisation of Islamic Coopera-5 |
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| 253 | 253 | | tion and United States Strategic Dialogue to ad-6 |
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| 254 | 254 | | dress Uyghur rights, working with the Organisation 7 |
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| 255 | 255 | | of Islamic Cooperation individual member states to 8 |
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| 256 | 256 | | develop and implement joint initiatives and pro-9 |
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| 257 | 257 | | grams aimed at promoting awareness of Uyghur 10 |
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| 258 | 258 | | rights, and support Uyghur victims of detainment, 11 |
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| 259 | 259 | | harassment, and transnational repression; 12 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (9) support independent media authorized 13 |
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| 261 | 261 | | under PL 111/202 22 U.S.C. 6208 of the 111th 14 |
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| 262 | 262 | | Congress that conduct reporting and investigative 15 |
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| 263 | 263 | | journalism focused on the XUAR, including in local 16 |
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| 264 | 264 | | languages, to ensure that further PRC human rights 17 |
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| 265 | 265 | | abuses are reported on; 18 |
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| 266 | 266 | | (10) work with international partners to raise 19 |
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| 267 | 267 | | awareness concerning acts of transnational repres-20 |
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| 268 | 268 | | sion against Uyghur Americans or Uyghurs exiled in 21 |
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| 269 | 269 | | the United States; 22 |
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| 270 | 270 | | (11) develop and implement strategies to pre-23 |
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| 271 | 271 | | vent and respond to the transnational repression of 24 |
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| 275 | 275 | | Uyghur Americans and Uyghurs exiled in the United 1 |
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| 276 | 276 | | States; 2 |
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| 277 | 277 | | (12) establish a reporting mechanism for indi-3 |
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| 278 | 278 | | viduals to report incidents of transnational repres-4 |
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| 279 | 279 | | sion; and 5 |
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| 280 | 280 | | (13) submit an annual report, including a clas-6 |
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| 281 | 281 | | sified annex if necessary, to Congress on actions 7 |
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| 282 | 282 | | taken by the United States to address and prevent 8 |
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| 283 | 283 | | transnational repression against Uyghurs in the 9 |
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| 284 | 284 | | United States, and recommendations for further leg-10 |
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| 285 | 285 | | islative or policy measures. 11 |
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| 286 | 286 | | (b) S |
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| 287 | 287 | | UPPORT.—The Secretary of State shall ensure 12 |
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| 288 | 288 | | the Department of State has adequate resources, staff, 13 |
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| 289 | 289 | | and administrative support to carry out this section. 14 |
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| 290 | 290 | | (c) T |
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| 291 | 291 | | ERMINATION.—This section shall terminate on 15 |
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| 292 | 292 | | the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment 16 |
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| 293 | 293 | | of this Act. 17 |
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| 294 | 294 | | SEC. 5. FUNDING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES TO CON-18 |
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| 295 | 295 | | DUCT PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE ISLAMIC 19 |
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| 296 | 296 | | WORLD ON THE UYGHUR SITUATION. 20 |
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| 297 | 297 | | Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the 21 |
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| 298 | 298 | | United States Speaker Program of the Bureau of Edu-22 |
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| 299 | 299 | | cational and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, 23 |
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| 300 | 300 | | $250,000 for each of fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027 24 |
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| 301 | 301 | | is authorized to be made available to support human 25 |
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| 305 | 305 | | rights advocates working on behalf of the Uyghurs and 1 |
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| 306 | 306 | | members of other ethnic and religious minority groups 2 |
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| 307 | 307 | | from the XUAR that are persecuted in the PRC, whose 3 |
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| 308 | 308 | | names may be provided by the Department of State in 4 |
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| 309 | 309 | | consultation with representatives of the global Uyghur 5 |
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| 310 | 310 | | community, to speak at global public diplomacy forums, 6 |
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| 311 | 311 | | particularly those in which Organisation of Islamic Co-7 |
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| 312 | 312 | | operation countries and other Muslim-majority countries 8 |
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| 313 | 313 | | are present, on issues regarding the human rights and reli-9 |
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| 314 | 314 | | gious freedom of Uyghurs and members of other ethnic 10 |
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| 315 | 315 | | and religious minority groups persecuted in the PRC. 11 |
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| 316 | 316 | | SEC. 6. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED. 12 |
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| 317 | 317 | | No additional funds are authorized to carry out the 13 |
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| 318 | 318 | | requirements of this Act. Such requirements shall be car-14 |
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| 319 | 319 | | ried out using amounts otherwise authorized. 15 |
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| 320 | 320 | | SEC. 7. ACCESS TO DETENTION FACILITIES AND PRISONS 16 |
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| 321 | 321 | | AND THE RELEASE OF PRISONERS. 17 |
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| 322 | 322 | | (a) S |
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| 323 | 323 | | TRATEGY ON POLITICALREEDUCATION AND 18 |
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| 324 | 324 | | D |
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| 325 | 325 | | ETENTIONFACILITIES.—Not later than 180 days after 19 |
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| 326 | 326 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 20 |
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| 327 | 327 | | State, in consultation with the heads of other relevant 21 |
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| 328 | 328 | | Federal departments and agencies, develop a strategy to 22 |
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| 329 | 329 | | cooperate with like-minded partners to pressure the Peo-23 |
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| 330 | 330 | | ple’s Republic of China to— 24 |
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| 334 | 334 | | (1) close all detention facilities and ‘‘political 1 |
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| 335 | 335 | | reeducation’’ camps housing Uyghurs and members 2 |
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| 336 | 336 | | of other ethnic minority groups in the XUAR; 3 |
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| 337 | 337 | | (2) allow unhindered access to detention facili-4 |
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| 338 | 338 | | ties and ‘‘political reeducation’’ camps in the XUAR 5 |
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| 339 | 339 | | by independent media, researchers, international or-6 |
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| 340 | 340 | | ganizations and the Office of the United Nations 7 |
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| 341 | 341 | | High Commissioner for Human Rights for a com-8 |
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| 342 | 342 | | prehensive assessment of the human rights situation; 9 |
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| 343 | 343 | | and 10 |
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| 344 | 344 | | (3) protect human rights and preserve the dis-11 |
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| 345 | 345 | | tinct religious and cultural identity of the Uyghurs 12 |
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| 346 | 346 | | and the other religious and ethnic minority commu-13 |
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| 347 | 347 | | nities in the XUAR. 14 |
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| 348 | 348 | | (b) R |
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| 350 | 350 | | Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of 16 |
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| 351 | 351 | | this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Com-17 |
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| 352 | 352 | | mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 18 |
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| 353 | 353 | | and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 19 |
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| 354 | 354 | | a report, including a classified annex if necessary, that in-20 |
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| 355 | 355 | | cludes— 21 |
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| 356 | 356 | | (1) the strategy developed pursuant to sub-22 |
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| 357 | 357 | | section (a); and 23 |
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| 361 | 361 | | (2) all the steps taken to implement such strat-1 |
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| 362 | 362 | | egy pursuant to the objectives described in sub-2 |
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| 363 | 363 | | section (a). 3 |
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| 364 | 364 | | SEC. 8. REQUIREMENT FOR UYGHUR LANGUAGE TRAINING. 4 |
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| 365 | 365 | | (a) U |
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| 366 | 366 | | YGHURLANGUAGETRAINING ANDSTAFFING.— 5 |
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| 367 | 367 | | The Secretary of State shall take such steps as may be 6 |
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| 368 | 368 | | necessary to ensure that— 7 |
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| 369 | 369 | | (1) Uyghur language training is available to 8 |
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| 370 | 370 | | Foreign Service officers as appropriate; and 9 |
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| 371 | 371 | | (2) every effort is made to ensure that at least 10 |
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| 372 | 372 | | 1 Uyghur-speaking member of the Foreign Service 11 |
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| 373 | 373 | | (as such term is defined by section 103 of the For-12 |
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| 374 | 374 | | eign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3903)) is as-13 |
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| 375 | 375 | | signed to each United States diplomatic or consular 14 |
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| 376 | 376 | | post in China. 15 |
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| 377 | 377 | | (b) R |
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| 378 | 378 | | EPORT.—No later than 1 year after the date 16 |
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| 379 | 379 | | of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for 17 |
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| 380 | 380 | | 2 years, the Foreign Service Institute shall submit to the 18 |
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| 381 | 381 | | Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representa-19 |
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| 382 | 382 | | tives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen-20 |
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| 383 | 383 | | ate a report that outlines all the steps taken to implement 21 |
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| 389 | 389 | | TIONS. 2 |
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| 390 | 390 | | The President should direct the United States Per-3 |
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| 391 | 391 | | manent Representative to the United Nations to use the 4 |
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| 392 | 392 | | voice, vote, and influence of the United States to— 5 |
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| 393 | 393 | | (1) oppose any efforts to prevent consideration 6 |
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| 394 | 394 | | of the gross violation of internationally recognized 7 |
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| 395 | 395 | | human rights in the XUAR in any body of the 8 |
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| 396 | 396 | | United Nations; 9 |
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| 397 | 397 | | (2) oppose any efforts to prevent the participa-10 |
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| 398 | 398 | | tion of any Uyghur human rights advocates in non-11 |
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| 399 | 399 | | governmental fora hosted by or otherwise organized 12 |
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| 400 | 400 | | under the auspices of any body of the United Na-13 |
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| 401 | 401 | | tions; and 14 |
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| 402 | 402 | | (3) support the appointment of a special 15 |
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| 403 | 403 | | rapporteur or working group for the XUAR for the 16 |
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| 404 | 404 | | purposes of monitoring human rights violations and 17 |
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| 405 | 405 | | abuses in the XUAR, and for making reports avail-18 |
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| 406 | 406 | | able to the High Commissioner for Refugees, the 19 |
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| 407 | 407 | | High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human 20 |
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| 408 | 408 | | Rights Commission, the General Assembly, and 21 |
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| 409 | 409 | | other United Nations bodies. 22 |
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