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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 5082 

To impose sanctions with respect to General Secretary Xi Jinping and other 

senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party complicit in the perpetration of genocide and other crimes against humanity against Uyghurs 

and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 14, 2022 

Mr. HAWLEY introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

A BILL 

To impose sanctions with respect to General Secretary Xi 

Jinping and other senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party complicit in the perpetration of genocide 

and other crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and 

other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sanction Xi Jinping 

5 for Xinjiang Atrocities Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress finds the following: 

3 (1) On August 31, 2022, the Office of the 

4 United Nations High Commissioner for Human 

5 Rights released an assessment that found that— 

6 (A) ‘‘serious human rights violations have 

7 been committed’’ by authorities of the People’s 

8 Republic of China against Uyghurs and other 

9 ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au10 tonomous Region; and 

11 (B) such violations may ‘‘constitute inter12 national crimes, in particular crimes against 

13 humanity’’. 

14 (2) The Secretary of State has found that 

15 treatment by authorities of the People’s Republic of 

16 China of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the 

17 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region constitutes 

18 genocide and other crimes against humanity. 

19 (3) The Xinjiang Police Files published in May 

20 2022 offered unprecedented insight into the human 

21 rights violations perpetrated by authorities of the 

22 People’s Republic of China against Uyghurs and 

23 other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au24 tonomous Region, including— 

25 (A) imprisonment of the elderly, young 

26 mothers, and other adults considered to be a 


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1 threat by the Chinese Communist Party, includ2 ing individuals alleged to have engaged in for3 bidden religious activities; 

4 (B) imprisonment of children as young as 

5 14, some of whom were apparently instructed to 

6 smile for detention photos; 

7 (C) use of armed strike groups and other 

8 personnel armed with clubs, batons, bayonets, 

9 machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and 

10 other military-grade weapons to intimidate and 

11 control detainees; 

12 (D) directives for police forces to ‘‘shoot 

13 dead’’ detainees who fail to heed orders, includ14 ing to prevent individuals from escaping alive; 

15 and 

16 (E) restrictions on medical care afforded to 

17 detainees. 

18 (4) The Xinjiang Police Files provide further 

19 evidence, including speeches by Minister of Public 

20 Security Zhao Kezhi and then-Xinjiang Party Sec21 retary Chen Quanguo, that General Secretary Xi 

22 Jinping directed and oversaw persecution of 

23 Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang 

24 Uyghur Autonomous Region, including by— 


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1 (A) directing Chen to travel to Xinjiang 

2 and ‘‘make a stable Xinjiang arise’’; 

3 (B) issuing ‘‘important instructions on 

4 governing Xinjiang according to the law, uni5 fying and stabilizing Xinjiang, and building 

6 Xinjiang over the long term’’; and 

7 (C) ordering Xinjiang authorities to— 

8 (i) ‘‘conduct de-extremification work’’, 

9 including ‘‘transformation through edu10 cation’’; and 

11 (ii) ‘‘implement practical measures 

12 such as expanding the number of employed 

13 [staff in detention facilities], enlarging the 

14 capacity [of those facilities], and increasing 

15 investment [in those facilities] within the 

16 set time frame’’. 

17 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

18 It is the sense of Congress that— 

19 (1) General Secretary Xi Jinping is complicit in 

20 the genocide and other crimes against humanity per21 petrated against Uyghurs and other ethnic minori22 ties in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 

23 and 

24 (2) General Secretary Xi Jinping and other 

25 senior Chinese Communist Party officials should be 


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1 held accountable for such genocide and crimes 

2 against humanity, including through the imposition 

3 of sanctions. 

4 SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO SEN5 IOR CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS 

6 COMPLICIT IN XINJIANG HUMAN RIGHTS VIO7 LATIONS. 

8 (a) IDENTIFICATION OF SENIOR CHINESE COM9 MUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS COMPLICIT IN XINJIANG

10 HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.—Not later than 90 days 

11 after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 

12 thereafter, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 

13 Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the ap14 propriate congressional committees a report that includes 

15 the following: 

16 (1) A list of senior Chinese Communist Party 

17 officials who directed, oversaw, monitored, or were 

18 otherwise complicit in the perpetration of genocide 

19 and other crimes against humanity against Uyghurs 

20 and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur 

21 Autonomous Region. 

22 (2) A description of actions taken by senior 

23 Chinese Communist Party officials listed under 

24 paragraph (1) that resulted in their inclusion on 

25 such list. 


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1 (b) SANCTIONS.—Not later than 180 days after the 

2 date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 

3 the President shall impose the sanctions described in sec4 tion 1263(b) of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Ac5 countability Act (22 U.S.C. 10102(b)) with respect to in6 dividuals identified under subsection (a). 

7 (c) REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 

8 90 days after first imposing sanctions under subsection 

9 (b), the President shall submit to the appropriate congres10 sional committees a report regarding measures taken by 

11 the President to implement this section. 

12 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

13 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT14 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com15 mittees’’ means— 

16 (A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, 

17 and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign 

18 Relations, and the Select Committee on Intel19 ligence of the Senate; and 

20 (B) the Committee on Financial Services, 

21 the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Per22 manent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 

23 House of Representatives. 


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1 (2) SENIOR CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY OFFI2 CIALS.—The term ‘‘senior Chinese Communist Party 

3 officials’’ means— 

4 (A) the General Secretary of the Party 

5 Central Committee; 

6 (B) members of the Political Bureau 

7 Standing Committee; 

8 (C) members of the Political Bureau; 

9 (D) members of the Central Military Com10 mission; 

11 (E) members of the Central Committee; 

12 (F) members of the Central Commission 

13 for Discipline Inspection; and 

14 (G) members of the Secretariat. 

15 SEC. 5. TERMINATION. 

16 This Act shall terminate on January 1, 2033. 

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