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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3306 

To address state-sanctioned violence against women in the People’s Republic 

of China, including rape and torture in detention and forced sterilizations, forced abortions, and other coercive birth restriction policies, particularly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 18, 2021 

Mrs. HARTZLER (for herself and Mr. SUOZZI) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition 

to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 

as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To address state-sanctioned violence against women in the 

People’s Republic of China, including rape and torture 

in detention and forced sterilizations, forced abortions, 

and other coercive birth restriction policies, particularly 

in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and for 

other purposes. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Uyghur Stop Oppres3 sive Sterilizations Act’’ or the ‘‘Uyghur SOS Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 Congress finds the following: 

6 (1) Eyewitness accounts provide credible docu7 mentation of widespread forced sterilization and sex8 ual violence against Uyghur and Kazakh women in 

9 the People’s Republic of China, including investiga10 tions and independent interviews by global media 

11 outlets. 

12 (2) Women who survived internment camps re13 port that they were forced to undergo multiple injec14 tions of unknown medicines that caused temporary 

15 or permanent loss of menstrual cycles. 

16 (3) Chinese Government documents dem17 onstrate rapid declines in population in two predomi18 nately Uyghur prefectures of the Xinjiang Uyghur 

19 Autonomous Region between 2015 and 2018, and an 

20 unprecedented near-zero birth rate target for 2020 

21 in one district. Government documents mandate that 

22 birth control violations are punishable by 

23 extrajudicial internment in ‘‘training’’ camps. 

24 (4) Chinese Government documents from 2019 

25 reveal plans for a campaign of mass female steriliza26 tion in rural Uyghur populated regions of the 


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1 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, to be contin2 ued in 2020 with increased funding. Publicly avail3 able budgets indicate that this project had sufficient 

4 funding to perform hundreds of thousands of tubal 

5 ligation sterilization procedures in 2019 and 2020. 

6 (5) In 2019, the Government of the Xinjiang 

7 Uyghur Autonomous Region planned to subject at 

8 least 80 percent of women of childbearing age in the 

9 four southern, rural, minority prefectures to intru10 sive birth-prevention surgeries. 

11 (6) A leaked report written by Nankai Univer12 sity researchers for the Chinese Government con13 firms the intent of intention of state-organized 

14 forced labor transfers as having the ultimate pur15 pose of assimilating Uyghurs, ‘‘breaking up’’ their 

16 society, and altering demographic trends. 

17 (7) The policy of state-sponsored forced popu18 lation-transfer program, which separates married 

19 couples and forcibly places unmarried individuals 

20 into controlled environments where they cannot 

21 marry or form a family, is a violation of the funda22 mental right ‘‘to marry and to found a family,’’ as 

23 codified by Article 16 of the Universal Declaration 

24 of Human Rights (1948). 


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1 (8) Under the ‘‘becoming family’’ homestay pro2 gram initiated by the government of the People’s 

3 Republic of China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono4 mous Region, government workers and other Com5 munist Party members are assigned to live with eth6 nic minority families in their homes to conduct sur7 veillance and compile information on family mem8 bers, in arrangements which leave these families vul9 nerable to sexual violence and other types of abuse. 

10 (9) On January 7, 2021, an official social 

11 media account for the Government of China said 

12 that a ‘‘Study shows that in the process of eradi13 cating extremism, the minds of Uygur women in 

14 Xinjiang were emancipated and gender equality and 

15 reproductive health were promoted, making them no 

16 longer baby-making machines [and] . . . . They are 

17 more confident and independent.’’. 

18 (10) Uyghur and Kazakh women who have 

19 given testimony to reporters about sexual violence 

20 and forced sterilizations in mass internment camps 

21 have been intimidated and their families threatened 

22 by security officials from the People’s Republic of 

23 China. 

24 (11) Article Two of the Genocide Convention of 

25 1948, which China has signed and ratified, states 


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1 that ‘‘genocide means any of the following acts com2 mitted with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a 

3 national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 

4 ‘‘(A) Killing members of the group; 

5 ‘‘(B) Causing serious bodily or mental 

6 harm to members of the group; 

7 ‘‘(C) Deliberately inflicting on the group 

8 conditions of life calculated to bring about its 

9 physical destruction in whole or in part; 

10 ‘‘(D) Imposing measures intended to pre11 vent births within the group; 

12 ‘‘(E) Forcibly transferring children of the 

13 group to another group.’’. 

14 (12) On January 19, 2021, the Secretary of 

15 State released a determination about atrocities in 

16 the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region that stat17 ed that the ‘‘ongoing’’ crimes against humanity 

18 against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and 

19 other members of ethnic and religious minority 

20 groups include forced sterilization, and called upon 

21 the PRC ‘‘immediately to release all arbitrarily de22 tained persons and abolish its system of internment, 

23 detention camps, house arrest and forced labor; 

24 cease coercive population control measures, including 

25 forced sterilizations, forced abortion, forced birth 


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1 control, and the removal of children from their fami2 lies; and end all torture and abuse in places of de3 tention . . . .’’ 

4 (13) That same determination concluded that, 

5 after careful examination of the facts, the Govern6 ment of China was committing ‘‘genocide’’ against 

7 Uyghur, Kazakh, and other ethnic minority groups 

8 in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 

9 (14) Secretary of State Tony Blinken affirmed 

10 that the United States Government recognizes the 

11 atrocities faced by Uyghurs and other ethnic and re12 ligious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono13 mous Region as ongoing genocide and crimes 

14 against humanity and said the United States will 

15 hold the Government of China responsible for the 

16 ‘‘atrocities’’ committed in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au17 tonomous Region. 

18 SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 

19 It is the policy of the United States— 

20 (1) to regard the prevention of genocide and 

21 other atrocity crimes as a national interest particu22 larly when those actions target Uyghurs, Kazakhs, 

23 and Kyrgyz and other predominately Muslim ethnic 

24 minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re25 gion through mass arbitrary detentions, forced labor, 


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1 forced sterilizations, forced abortions and other coer2 cive birth restrictions policies, sexual violence and 

3 other torture in detention, and forced transfer of 

4 children to orphanages and boarding schools; 

5 (2) to condemn genocide and work diplomati6 cally to end genocide and other atrocity crimes, in7 cluding by calling on foreign governments, through 

8 both bilateral discussions and in multilateral organi9 zations, to denounce and take actions to end the 

10 atrocity crimes perpetuated in the Xinjiang Uyghur 

11 Autonomous Region; 

12 (3) to raise the issue of state-sanctioned vio13 lence against women, including rape, torture, and 

14 coercively enforced population control policies in the 

15 People’s Republic of China, in all multilateral orga16 nizations where the United States and the People’s 

17 Republic of China are members, including at the 

18 United Nations Security Council; 

19 (4) to consider state-sanctioned violence against 

20 women, including forced sterilizations and forced 

21 abortions and the systematic use of rape and torture 

22 in mass internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur 

23 Autonomous Region as a gross violation of inter24 nationally-recognized human rights; and 


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1 (5) to use all the existing United States au2 thorities, including visa and financial sanctions, to 

3 hold accountable individuals and entities responsible 

4 for genocide and other atrocity crimes in the Peo5 ple’s Republic of China, section 6 of the Uyghur 

6 Human Rights Policy Act (Public Law No: 116– 

7 145) and including section 1263 of the Global 

8 Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (sub9 title F of title XII of the National Defense Author10 ization Act for Fiscal Year 2017; 22 U.S.C. 2656 

11 note). 

12 SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING ATROCITY 

13 CRIMES IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONO14 MOUS REGION. 

15 It is the sense of Congress that— 

16 (1) the atrocities perpetrated by the Govern17 ment of the People’s Republic of China against 

18 Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other predominately 

19 Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur 

20 Autonomous Region are horrific and ongoing and 

21 constitute genocide and crimes against humanity; 

22 (2) all governments, including the United 

23 States, and international organizations, such as the 

24 United Nations and the Office of the Secretary-Gen25 eral, should call the atrocities perpetuated by the 


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1 Government of the People’s Republic of China, in2 cluding the mass arbitrary detention of ethnic mi3 norities; forced sterilizations and forced abortions 

4 and other sexual violence; and forced labor, as geno5 cide and crimes against humanity; 

6 (3) the United States, in coordination with al7 lies and partners, should strongly condemn the in8 timidation and threats targeting Uyghur and 

9 Kazakh women who provide public evidence of sexual 

10 violence and forced sterilizations and forced abor11 tions in mass internment camps and the journalist 

12 who report these stories; 

13 (4) member states of the United Nations should 

14 consider all Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities de15 tained and imprisoned through the justice system in 

16 the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as arbi17 trarily detained due to the severe restrictions on in18 formation regarding the cases and because research 

19 by human rights organizations indicate that long 

20 prison sentences were given to individuals for prac21 ticing their religion or engaging in other internation22 ally-recognized human rights; 

23 (5) member states of the United Nations should 

24 condemn the atrocities committed by the Govern25 ment of the People’s Republic China, including 


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1 forced sterilizations and other state-sanctioned vio2 lence against women, and take steps to prevent fur3 ther crimes against humanity and genocide in the 

4 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region including by 

5 demanding that the Government of the People’s Re6 public of China— 

7 (A) immediately adhere to its commitments 

8 under the Convention on the Prevention and 

9 Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; 

10 (B) end all forced sterilization, forced 

11 abortions, and other state-sanctioned violence 

12 against women; 

13 (C) release all individuals from internment 

14 camps, and all others who are unjustly or arbi15 trarily detained, including those engaged in 

16 forced labor programs or separated from their 

17 families in state-run boarding schools; 

18 (D) end harassment and restrictions on 

19 foreign journalists while they are traveling in 

20 the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and 

21 immediately end any threats and intimidation 

22 directed at journalists for reporting about con23 ditions there; and 


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1 (E) guarantee the right to the freedom of 

2 religion, including by rebuilding mosques and 

3 restoring holy sites and cemeteries; 

4 (6) member states of the United Nations should 

5 take action to collect and preserve evidence of geno6 cide and crimes against humanity and establish ap7 propriate special mechanisms and tribunals to hold 

8 accountable officials responsible for genocide and 

9 crimes against humanity, including through the es10 tablishment of an international Commission on In11 quiry on Atrocity Crimes in the Xinjiang Uyghur 

12 Autonomous Region; and 

13 (7) the Department of State should be com14 mended for raising the issue of atrocity crimes and 

15 its public determination that the Government of the 

16 People’s Republic of China is responsible for an on17 going genocide and for crimes against humanity in 

18 the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 

19 SEC. 5. STRATEGY TO ADDRESS GENOCIDE IN THE 

20 XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION. 

21 (a) FINDING.—Congress finds that— 

22 (1) the determination of the Secretary of State 

23 that the Government of the People’s Republic of 

24 China is responsible for perpetrating both genocide 

25 and crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and 


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1 other predominately Muslim ethnic minority groups 

2 in Xinjiang Uyghurs Autonomous Region is an issue 

3 on which there is widespread bipartisan support in 

4 Congress; and 

5 (2) the atrocities being committed in China are 

6 both horrific and ongoing. 

7 (b) STRATEGY REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 days 

8 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 

9 shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 

10 a report that includes a strategy specifically describing— 

11 (1) the steps already taken to tangibly address 

12 atrocity crimes occurring in the Xinjiang Uyghur 

13 Autonomous Region, especially during the period fol14 lowing the January 19, 2021, determination that 

15 genocide and crimes against humanity were occur16 ring in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 

17 and 

18 (2) a strategy for ending the atrocity crimes oc19 curring in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, 

20 including by— 

21 (A) holding accountable persons or entities 

22 responsible for committing such atrocity crimes 

23 by addressing, through existing or new export 

24 controls or import restrictions, the issues of 


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1 mass biometric surveillance and forced labor 

2 programs in China; 

3 (B) gaining access for United Nations, 

4 United States, and other diplomats and foreign 

5 journalists to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 

6 Region; and 

7 (C) protecting Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, 

8 and other ethnic minorities affected by the 

9 atrocities committed by the Government of the 

10 People’s Republic of China. 

11 (c) FORM AND PUBLICATION.—The report required 

12 under subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified 

13 form and shall be made publicly available, but may include 

14 a classified annex. 

15 (d) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.— 

16 In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com17 mittees’’ means— 

18 (1) The Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 

19 Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee 

20 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. 

21 (2) The Committee on Foreign Relations, the 

22 Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee 

23 on Appropriations of the Senate. 


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1 SEC. 6. PROTECTION OF UYGHURS, KAZAKHS, AND OTHER 

2 ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE XINJIANG 

3 UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION. 

4 The Secretary of State shall provide all appropriate 

5 assistance to women who belong to the Uyghur, Kazakh, 

6 Kyrgyz, or other ethnic minority and who experienced sex7 ual violence, torture, forced sterilizations and forced abor8 tions in the People’s Republic of China in order for them 

9 to receive needed medical care and psychological support. 

10 All existing authorities shall be used to allow such women 

11 to at least temporarily enter the United States. 

12 SEC. 7. SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO INDIVIDUALS COM13 MITTING RESPONSIBLE FOR OR COMPLICIT 

14 IN FORCED STERILIZATIONS, FORCED ABOR15 TIONS, OR OTHER SEXUAL VIOLENCE. 

16 (a) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the 

17 United States to consider any foreign person or entity re18 sponsible for, complicit in, or having directly or indirectly 

19 engaged in forced sterilizations, forced abortions, or other 

20 sexual violence targeting any individual in the Xinjiang 

21 Uyghur Autonomous Region as having committed gross 

22 violations of internationally recognized human rights for 

23 purposes of imposing the sanctions detailed in the Global 

24 Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F 

25 of title XII of the National Defense Authorization Act for 

26 Fiscal Year 2017; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note). 


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1 (b) DENIAL OF ENTRY FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS

2 ENGAGED IN ESTABLISHMENT OR ENFORCEMENT OF

3 FORCED ABORTION OR STERILIZATION POLICY.—Section 

4 801 of the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan 

5 Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 

6 and 2001 (Public Law 106–113; 8 U.S.C. 1182e) is 

7 amended— 

8 (1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘minister.’’ 

9 and inserting ‘‘minister, unless— 

10 ‘‘(1) the Secretary of State makes a public de11 termination that the forced sterilizations, forced 

12 abortions, or other coercive population control poli13 cies were being committed or enforced with the in14 tent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, eth15 nic, racial or religious group and therefore constitute 

16 genocide or crimes against humanity; or 

17 ‘‘(2) the Secretary of State finds that such co18 ercive population control policies were targeting 

19 Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Tibetan or other ethnic minori20 ties or individuals peacefully expressing internation21 ally-recognized human rights in the People’s Repub22 lic of China.’’; 

23 (2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘national in24 terest’’ and inserting ‘‘national security interest’’; 

25 and 


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1 (3) by adding at the end the following new sub2 sections: 

3 ‘‘(d) NOTICE.—The Secretary of State shall make a 

4 public announcement each time sanctions are imposed 

5 under this section as a result of a determination or finding 

6 described in subsection (b)(1) or (b)(2), respectively. 

7 ‘‘(e) INFORMATION REQUESTED BY CONGRESS.—The 

8 Secretary of State shall, upon request of a Member of 

9 Congress— 

10 ‘‘(1) provide information about the use of the 

11 sanctions described in this section, including the 

12 number of times imposed, disaggregated by country 

13 and by year; or 

14 ‘‘(2) provide a classified briefing that includes 

15 information about the individuals or entities sanc16 tioned pursuant to this section and any other Act 

17 authorizing sanctions with respect to the conduct of 

18 such individuals or entities.’’. 

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