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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. CON. RES. 188
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 25, 2002
Received and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of Congress that the Government of
the People’s Republic of China should cease its persecu-
tion of Falun Gong practitioners.
Whereas Falun Gong is a peaceful and nonviolent form of
personal belief and practice with millions of adherents in
the People’s Republic of China and elsewhere;
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China
has forbidden Falun Gong practitioners to practice their
beliefs, and has systematically attempted to eradicate the
practice and those who follow it;
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Whereas this policy violates the Constitution of the People’s
Republic of China as well as the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights and the Universal Declara-
tion of Human Rights;
Whereas Jiang Zemin’s regime has created notorious govern-
ment ‘‘610’’ offices throughout the People’s Republic of
China with the special task of overseeing the persecution
of Falun Gong members through organized brainwashing,
torture, and murder;
Whereas propaganda from state-controlled media in the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China has inundated the public in an
attempt to breed hatred and discrimination;
Whereas the number of known deaths from torture has
reached 422 so far, tens of thousands have been tortured
while confined in labor camps, prisons, and mental hos-
pitals, and hundreds of thousands have been forced to at-
tend brainwashing classes;
Whereas official measures have been taken to conceal all
atrocities, such as the immediate cremation of victims,
the blocking of autopsies, and the false labeling of deaths
as from suicide or natural causes;
Whereas women in particular have been the target of numer-
ous forms of sexual violence, including rape, sexual as-
sault, and forced abortion;
Whereas the campaign of persecution has been generated by
the Government of the People’s Republic of China, is car-
ried out by government officials and police at all levels,
and has permeated every segment of society and every
level of government in the People’s Republic of China;
and
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Whereas several United States citizens and permanent resi-
dent aliens have been subjected to arbitrary detention,
imprisoned, and tortured in the People’s Republic of
China: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the Government of the People’s Republic of
China should cease its persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners, and its representatives in the United
States should cease their harassment of citizens and
residents of the United States who practice Falun
Gong and cease their attempts to put pressure on
officials of State and local governments in the
United States to refuse or withdraw support for the
Falun Gong and its practitioners;
(2) the United States Government should use
every appropriate public and private forum to urge
the Government of the People’s Republic of China—
(A) to release from detention all Falun
Gong practitioners and put an end to the prac-
tices of torture and other cruel, inhumane, and
degrading treatment against them and other
prisoners of conscience; and
(B) to abide by the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights by allowing