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Whereas the Department of State’s 2000 Country Reports on
Human Rights Practices in China has extensively docu-
mented that human rights abuses in the People’s Repub-
lic of China ‘‘included instances of extrajudicial killings,
the use of torture, forced confessions, arbitrary arrest
and detention, the mistreatment of prisoners, lengthy in-
communicado detention, and denial of due process’’, and
also found that ‘‘[p]olice and prosecutorial officials often
ignore the due process provisions of the law and of the
Constitution . . . [f]or example, police and prosecutors
can subject prisoners to severe psychological pressure to
confess, and coerced confessions frequently are intro-
duced as evidence’’;
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China
has reported that some of the scholar detainees have
‘‘confessed’’ to their ‘‘crimes’’ of ‘‘spying’’, but it has yet
to produce any evidence of spying, and has refused to
permit the detainees to confer with their families or law-
yers;
Whereas the Department of State’s 2000 Country Reports on
Human Rights Practices in China also found that ‘‘police
continue to hold individuals without granting access to
family or a lawyer, and trials continue to be conducted
in secret’’;
Whereas Dr. Li Shaomin is a United States citizen and
scholar who has been detained by the Government of the
People’s Republic of China for more than 100 days, and
was formally charged with spying for Taiwan on May 15,
2001;
Whereas Dr. Li Shaomin has been deprived of his basic
human rights by arbitrary arrest and detention, and has
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not been allowed to contact his wife and child (both
United States citizens), or his lawyer;
Whereas Dr. Gao Zhan is a permanent resident of the United
States and scholar who has been detained by the Govern-
ment of the People’s Republic of China for more than
114 days, and was formally charged with ‘‘accepting
money from a foreign intelligence agency’’ on April 4,
2001;
Whereas Dr. Gao Zhan has been deprived of her basic human
rights by arbitrary arrest and detention, and has not
been allowed to contact her husband and child (both
United States citizens), her lawyer, or Department of
State consular personnel in China;
Whereas Wu Jianmin is a United States citizen and author
who has been detained by the Government of the People’s
Republic of China, has been deprived of his basic human
rights by arbitrary arrest and detention, has been denied
access to lawyers and family members, and has yet to be
formally charged with any crimes;
Whereas Qin Guangguang is a permanent resident of the
United States and researcher who has been detained by
the Government of the People’s Republic of China on
suspicions of ‘‘leaking state secrets’’, has been deprived
of his basic human rights by arbitrary arrest and deten-
tion, has been denied access to lawyers and family mem-
bers, and has yet to be formally charged with any crimes;
Whereas Teng Chunyan is a permanent resident of the
United States, Falun Gong practitioner, and researcher
who has been sentenced to three years in prison for spy-
ing by the Government of the People’s Republic of China,
apparently for conducting research which documented
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violations of the human rights of Falun Gong adherents
in China, has been deprived of her basic human rights by
being placed on trial in secret, and her appeal to the Bei-
jing Higher People’s Court was denied on May 11, 2001;
Whereas Liu Yaping is a permanent resident of the United
States and a businessman who was arrested and detained
in Inner Mongolia in March 2001 by the Government of
the People’s Republic of China, has been deprived of his
basic human rights by being denied any access to family
members, by being denied regular access to lawyers, is
reported to be suffering from severe health problems, and
has yet to be formally charged with any crimes;
Whereas because there is documented evidence that the Gov-
ernment of the People’s Republic of China uses torture
to coerce confessions from suspects, and because the Gov-
ernment has thus far presented no evidence to support its
claims that the detained scholars and intellectuals are
spies, and because spying is vaguely defined under Chi-
nese law, there is reason to believe that the ‘‘confessions’’
of Dr. Li Shaomin and Dr. Gao Zhan may have been co-
erced; and
Whereas the arbitrary imprisonment of United States citizens
and residents by the Government of the People’s Republic
of China, and the continuing violations of their funda-
mental human rights, demands an immediate and force-
ful response by Congress and the President of the United
States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That—
(1) the House of Representatives—
(A) condemns and deplores the continued de-
tention of Li Shaomin, Gao Zhan, Wu Jianmin, Qin
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Guangguang, Teng Chunyan, and other scholars de-
tained on false charges by the Government of the
People’s Republic of China, and calls for their im-
mediate and unconditional release;
(B) condemns and deplores the lack of due
process afforded to these detainees, and the prob-
able coercion of confessions from some of them;
(C) condemns and deplores the ongoing and
systematic pattern of human rights violations by the
Government of the People’s Republic of China, of
which the unjust detentions of Li Shaomin, Gao
Zhan, Wu Jianmin, Qin Guangguang, and Teng
Chunyan, are only important examples;
(D) strongly urges the Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China to consider carefully the im-
plications to the broader United States-Chinese re-
lationship of detaining and coercing confessions
from United States citizens and permanent resi-
dents on unsubstantiated spying charges or sus-
picions;
(E) urges the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to consider releasing Liu Yaping on
medical parole, as provided for under Chinese law;
and
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(F) believes that human rights violations in-
flicted on United States citizens and residents by
the Government of the People’s Republic of China
will reduce opportunities for United States-Chinese
cooperation on a wide range of issues; and
(2) it is the sense of the House of Representatives
that the President—
(A) should make the immediate release of Li
Shaomin, 
Gao 
Zhan, 
Wu 
Jianmin, 
Qin
Guangguang, and Teng Chunyan a top priority of
United States foreign policy with the Government of
the People’s Republic of China;
(B) should continue to make every effort to as-
sist Li Shaomin, Gao Zhan, Wu Jianmin, Qin
Guangguang, and Teng Chunyan, and their fami-
lies, while discussions of their release are ongoing;
(C) should make it clear to the Government of
the People’s Republic of China, that the detention
of United States citizens and residents, and the in-
fliction of human rights violations upon United
States citizens and residents, is not in the interests
of the Government of the People’s Republic of
China because it will reduce opportunities for
United States-Chinese cooperation on other mat-
ters; and