(3) reaffirms the importance of media freedom 
and the right of publishers, journalists, and media 
workers in Hong Kong and around the world to op-
erate free from intimidation, harassment, repression, 
censorship, and fear; 
(4) recognizes that the severe restrictions on 
the free flow of news and information from Hong 
Kong impacts the ability of individuals, corporations, 
and diplomats to make decisions about travel, invest-
ments, and political conditions in Hong Kong; 
(5) urges the Secretary of State and other rel-
evant Department of State officials to advocate for 
the release of Jimmy Lai by raising his case with of-
ficials of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Re-
gion and People’s Republic of China; 
(6) urges the United Nations High Commis-
sioner for Human Rights to hold a special session 
and appoint an impartial and independent United 
Nations mechanism to evaluate, monitor, and report 
on a range of human rights violations in the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China, including the impact of the 
National Security Law on human rights in Hong 
Kong, as requested by over 50 United Nations Spe-
cial Experts in 2020; and 
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(7) urges all governments that value democracy, 
human rights, and the rule of law to call for all 
charges against Jimmy Lai to be dropped, the trial 
to end, and for the immediate and unconditional re-
lease of Jimmy Lai. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF ‘‘JIMMY LAI WAY’’ IN THE DIS-
TRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
(a) DESIGNATION OF STREET NAME.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The area between the inter-
sections of 18th Street Northwest and Church Street 
Northwest, and 18th Street Northwest and P Street 
Northwest in the District of Columbia shall be 
known and designated as ‘‘Jimmy Lai Way’’. 
(2) REFERENCE.—Any reference in a law, map, 
regulation, document, paper, or other record of the 
United States to the area referred to in paragraph 
(1) shall be deemed to include ‘‘Jimmy Lai Way.’’ 
(b) DESIGNATION OF ADDRESS.— 
(1) DESIGNATION.—The address of 1520 18th 
Street Northwest in the District of Columbia shall 
be redesignated as 1 Jimmy Lai Way Northwest. 
(2) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, 
map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of 
the United States to the address referred to in para-
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graph (1) shall be deemed to be a reference to 1 
Jimmy Lai Way Northwest. 
(c) SIGNS.—The Administrator of General Services 
shall construct street signs that shall— 
(1) contain the phrase ‘‘Jimmy Lai Way NW’’; 
(2) be similar in design to the signs used by the 
District of Columbia to designate the location of 
Metro stations; and 
(3) be placed on— 
(A) the parcel of Federal property that is 
closest to 1 Jimmy Lai Way Northwest (as re-
designated by subsection (b)(1)) in the District 
of Columbia; and 
(B) the street corners of 18th Street 
Northwest and Church Street Northwest, and 
18th Street Northwest and P Street Northwest, 
in the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING MAIL DELIVERY 
BY THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Postmaster Gen-
eral should recognize any mail which is addressed to the 
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office at ‘‘1 Jimmy Lai 
Way’’ in San Francisco, California, or New York, New 
York, with the appropriate postal codes, and should deliver 
such mail to— 
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(1) 130 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, 
California 94104; or 
(2) 115 East 54th Street, New York, New York 
10022, 
as the case may be. 
Æ 
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