IV 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 304
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding oppression by the Government 
of the People’s Republic of China of Falun Gong in the United States 
and in China. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 16, 2003
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself and Ms. WOOLSEY) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Inter-
national Relations, 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 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding oppression by 
the Government of the People’s Republic of China of 
Falun Gong in the United States and in China.
Whereas Falun Gong is a peaceful spiritual movement that 
originated in the People’s Republic of China but has 
grown in popularity worldwide and is now accepted and 
practiced by thousands in the United States; 
Whereas demonstrations by Falun Gong practitioners in the 
People’s Republic of China and the United States have 
been peaceful, meditative sessions;
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Whereas the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China 
provides to the citizens of that country freedom of 
speech, assembly, association, and religious belief; 
Whereas members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, 
members of Chinese pro-democracy groups, and advo-
cates of human rights reform in the People’s Republic of 
China have been harassed, libeled, imprisoned, and beat-
en for demonstrating peacefully inside that country; 
Whereas the Chinese Government has also attempted to si-
lence the Falun Gong movement and Chinese prodemoc-
racy groups inside the United States; 
Whereas on June 12, 2003, 38 Members of Congress filed an 
Amended Brief of Amicus Curiae in support of the Falun 
Gong at the United States District Court, Northeastern 
District of Illinois, Eastern Division; 
Whereas Chinese consular officials have pressured local elect-
ed officials in the United States to refuse or withdraw 
support for the Falun Gong spiritual group; 
Whereas Dr. Charles Lee, a United States citizen, has report-
edly been mentally and physically tortured since being de-
tained by Chinese authorities in early 2003; 
Whereas the apartment of Ms. Gail Rachlin, the Falun Gong 
spokeswoman in the United States, has been broken into 
5 times by agents of the Chinese regime since the regime 
banned Falun Gong in 1999 in China; 
Whereas over the past 5 years China’s diplomatic corps has 
been actively involved in harassing and persecuting Falun 
Gong practitioners in the United States; 
Whereas on June 23, 2003, Falun Gong practitioners were 
attacked outside a Chinese restaurant in New York City
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by local United States-based individuals with reported 
ties to the Chinese Government; 
Whereas 5 Falun Gong practitioners were assaulted outside 
of the Chinese Consulate in Chicago on September 7, 
2001, while exercising their constitutionally protected 
rights to free speech, leading to battery convictions in 
Cook County Criminal Court of Jiming Zheng on Novem-
ber 13, 2002, and Yujun Weng on December 5, 2002, 
both assailants being members of a Chinese-American or-
ganization in Chicago, the Mid-USA Fujian Township 
Association, which maintains close ties with the Chinese 
Consulate; 
Whereas individuals that physically harassed Falun Gong 
practitioners in San Francisco on October 22, 2000, were 
later seen at anti-Falun Gong meetings and the Chinese 
Consulate in San Francisco; 
Whereas San Francisco City Supervisor Chris Daly, after re-
ceiving complaints that Chinese officials were intimi-
dating his constituents, authored a resolution con-
demning human rights violations and persecution of 
Falun Gong members by the Chinese Government; 
Whereas Mr. Daly and the other members of the San Fran-
cisco City Council subsequently received a letter from the 
Chinese Consul General in San Francisco, claiming that 
Falun Gong was an ‘‘evil cult’’ that was undermining the 
‘‘normal social order’’ in the People’s Republic of China, 
and that Mr. Daly’s resolution should therefore be re-
jected, which it subsequently was; 
Whereas in November 2000, the former Mayor of Saratoga, 
California, Stan Bogosian, issued a proclamation hon-
oring the contributions of Falun Gong practitioners to
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the Saratoga community, which prompted the Chinese 
Consulate in San Francisco to write to Mr. Bogosian 
urging him to retract his support for local Falun Gong 
activities; 
Whereas many local and national media organizations have 
reported that other local officials across the United 
States, including the mayors of several major cities, have 
been pressured by Chinese consular officials to recant 
statements of support for the Falun Gong; 
Whereas journalists have cited fear of hurting trade relation-
ships as the motivation for some local United States offi-
cials to recant their support for Falun Gong after receiv-
ing pressure from Chinese consular officials; and 
Whereas the Constitution of the United States guarantees 
freedom of religion, the right to assemble, and the right 
to speak freely, and the people of the United States 
strongly value protecting the ability of all people to live 
without fear and in accordance with their personal be-
liefs: 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—
(A) immediately stop interfering in the ex-
ercise of religious and political freedoms within 
the United States, such as the right to practice 
Falun Gong, that are guaranteed by the United 
States Constitution;
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(B) cease using the diplomatic missions in 
the United States to spread falsehoods about 
the nature of Falun Gong; 
(C) release from detention all prisoners of 
conscience, including practitioners of Falun 
Gong, who have been incarcerated in violation 
of their rights as expressed in the Constitution 
of the People’s Republic of China; 
(D) immediately end the harassment, de-
tention, physical abuse, and imprisonment of in-
dividuals who are exercising their legitimate 
rights to freedom of religion, including the 
practices of Falun Gong, freedom of expression, 
and freedom of association as stated in the 
Constitution of the People’s Republic of China; 
and 
(E) demonstrate its willingness to abide by 
international standards of freedom of belief, ex-
pression, and association by ceasing to restrict 
those freedoms in the People’s Republic of 
China; 
(2) the President should, in accordance with 
section 401(a)(1)(B) of the International Religious 
Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401(a)(1)(B)), 
and with the intention of dissuading the Chinese
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Government from attempting to stifle religious free-
dom in the People’s Republic of China and the 
United States, take action such as—
(A) issuing an official public demarche, a 
formal protest, to the Chinese Foreign Ministry 
in response to the repeated violations by the 
Chinese Government of basic human rights pro-
tected in international covenants to which the 
People’s Republic of China is a signatory; and 
(B) working more closely with Chinese 
human rights activists to identify Chinese au-
thorities who have been personally responsible 
for acts of violence and persecution in the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China; 
(3) the Attorney General should investigate re-
ports that Chinese consular officials in the United 
States have committed illegal acts while attempting 
to intimidate or inappropriately influence Falun 
Gong practitioners or local elected officials, and, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State, determine 
an appropriate legal response; and 
(4) officials of local governments in the United 
States should—
(A) in accordance with local statutes and 
procedures, recognize and support organizations