IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 18 
Expressing concern over the detainment of Sandy Phan-Gillis, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 3, 2017 
Mr. AL GREEN of Texas submitted the following resolution; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Per-
manent Select Committee on Intelligence, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing concern over the detainment of Sandy Phan- 
Gillis, and for other purposes. 
Whereas Sandy Phan-Gillis, a naturalized United States cit-
izen of Chinese ancestry and Texas businesswoman, has 
been detained by the Chinese State Security since March 
2015; 
Whereas Sandy traveled to China to promote business oppor-
tunities in her hometown of Houston, Texas; 
Whereas Sandy was detained by Chinese security agents as 
she was passing through an immigration control con-
necting mainland China with Macau; 
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Whereas Chinese authorities waited six months before admit-
ting she had been detained; 
Whereas in June 2016, a United Nations panel ruled that 
China had violated international human rights by denying 
Sandy access to legal assistance and holding her without 
bringing her before judicial authorities; 
Whereas Sandy is charged with going on a spy mission to 
Guangxi, China, on behalf of a foreign intelligence agency 
in the summer of 1996; 
Whereas Sandy’s passport for 1996 had no Chinese visa, no 
Chinese entry stamps, and no Chinese exit stamps; 
Whereas Sandy’s pay stubs from the Houston Police Depart-
ment, where she worked from 1993 to 1998, showed that 
during the time in question she took a total of 11 hours 
of vacation; 
Whereas Sandy has denied any wrongdoing and said her de-
tention was political and not criminal, according to a let-
ter transcribed by a United States consular official in 
China; 
Whereas China has provided little information about its alle-
gations, saying only that she is suspected of stealing and 
spying on its national secrets and that during her arrest 
a new crime of espionage was uncovered; and 
Whereas the Department of State has said consular officials 
meet every month with Phan-Gillis and are monitoring 
the case closely: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses its ongoing concern about the de-
taining of Sandy Phan-Gillis in Yunnan Province, 
People’s Republic of China, in August 2004; 
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(2) encourages the Department of State and 
the intelligence community to jointly continue inves-
tigations and to consider all plausible explanations 
for Sandy’s detainment; 
(3) urges the Department of State and the in-
telligence community to coordinate investigations 
with the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China and solicit information from appropriate re-
gional affairs and law enforcement experts on plau-
sible explanations for Sandy’s detainment; and 
(4) requests that the Department of State and 
the intelligence community continue to work with 
and inform Congress and the family of Sandy Phan- 
Gillis on efforts to possibly recover Sandy and to re-
solve her detainment. 
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