H. Res. 794

In the House of Representatives, U.S., 

June 12, 2006.

Whereas freedom of expression, assembly, association, and religion are fundamental human rights that belong to all 

people and are recognized as such under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the International 

Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 

Whereas the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square were the 

manifestation of a peaceful democratic movement 

throughout China calling for the establishment of a dialogue with government and party leaders on democratic 

reforms, including freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and the elimination of corruption; 

Whereas on June 3–4, 1989, Chinese authorities ordered the 

People’s Liberation Army and other security forces to use 

lethal force to disperse demonstrators in Beijing, especially around Tiananmen Square; 

Whereas independent observers report that hundreds, perhaps 

thousands, were killed and wounded in 1989 by the People’s Liberation Army soldiers and other security forces; 

Whereas 20,000 people throughout China suspected of taking 

part in the democracy movement were arrested and sentenced without trial to prison or reeducation through 

labor, and many were reportedly tortured; 
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Whereas credible sources estimate that the Communist Government of China continues to imprison hundreds, and 

perhaps thousands, of Tiananmen Square activists, such 

as United States permanent resident Yang Jianli, and 

denies such activists their basic human rights; 

Whereas the Communist Government of China undertakes active measures to deny its citizens the truth about the 

Tiananmen Square massacre, including the blocking of 

uncensored Internet sites and weblogs, and the placement 

of misleading information on the events of June 3–4, 

1989 on Internet sites available in China, often with the 

collusion and cooperation of United States Internet companies such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco; 

Whereas the Communist Government of China continues to 

suppress dissent by imprisoning pro-democracy activists, 

lawyers, journalists, labor union leaders, religious believers, members of ethnic minority rights organizations, and 

other individuals in China and Tibet who seek to express 

their political or religious views in a peaceful manner; 

Whereas the Communist Government of China kidnapped 

long-time democracy activist Dr. Wang Bingzhang, a 

United States permanent resident, and sentenced him to 

life imprisonment for espionage and terrorism; 

Whereas the Communist Government of China continues its 

extraordinarily brutal persecution of the peaceful spiritual movement of Falun Gong; 

Whereas the Communist Government of China continues its 

reprehensible policies of organ harvesting of executed 

prisoners; maintenance of hundreds, perhaps thousands 

of slave labor camps; coercive sterilization and forced 

abortions resulting in sex-selective abortions, female in-
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fanticide, and trafficking in persons; and forcible repatriation of thousands of refugees to North Korea to face 

persecution, imprisonment, and death in violation of its 

international commitments; and 

Whereas June 4, 2006, is the 17th anniversary of the 

Tiananmen Square massacre: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives—

(1) expresses sympathy to the families of those 

killed, tortured, and imprisoned as a result of their participation in the democracy protests of June 3–4, 1989, 

in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in the People’s Republic 

of China, and to all those persons who have suffered for 

their efforts to keep that struggle alive during the past 

17 years, and to all the people of China who lack fundamental human rights; 

(2) commends all peaceful advocates for democracy 

and human rights in China; 

(3) calls upon those nations planning to participate 

in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing to insist that 

China comply with the United Nations Declaration on 

Human Rights; and 

(4) condemns the ongoing and egregious human 

rights abuses by the Communist Government of China 

and calls on that Government to—

(A) release all prisoners of conscience, including those persons still in prison as a result of their 
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participation in the peaceful pro-democracy protests 

of 1989 and put an immediate end to the harassment, detention, and imprisonment of all Chinese 

citizens exercising their legitimate freedoms of expression, association, and religion; 

(B) end its censorship of legitimate free speech 

on the Internet, and its persecution of Internet dissidents; 

(C) end its persecution of Falun Gong; 

(D) end organ harvesting and ensure that its 

organ donor programs proceed only on a purely voluntary and non-commercial basis; 

(E) end its coercive one-child policy; 

(F) grant the United Nations High Commission on Refugees access to all refugees, and end 

forcible repatriations of refugees, particularly to 

North Korea; 

(G) close its ‘‘re-education through labor’’ 

camps, respect the rights of workers, and end police 

detention without trial; 

(H) release United States permanent resident 

Dr. Yang Jianli, a participant in the Tiananmen 

Square protests of 1989, who has been illegally detained by the Communist Government of China 
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since April 26, 2002, and whose wife and two children are United States citizens; and 

(I) release United States permanent resident 

Dr. Wang Bingzhang, long-time peaceful democracy 

activist, who was abducted in June 2002, and illegally imprisoned for life on false charges of espionage and terrorism, and whose sister, son, and 

daughter are United States citizens.

Attest: 

Clerk.