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basis of unauthorized religious activities using such meas-
ures as harassment, surveillance, job discrimination, exor-
bitant fines, prolonged detention, physical abuse, incar-
ceration, and closure or destruction of places of worship;
Whereas international human rights organizations have docu-
mented that torture, maltreatment, the use of confessions
extracted through torture, and other abuses while in de-
tention are rampant in the Chinese legal system;
Whereas the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has
been particularly harsh;
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China
launched a brutal campaign to eradicate Falun Gong
from their country;
Whereas since this time large numbers of Falun Gong practi-
tioners have been arrested, subjected to harsh reeduca-
tion efforts, and some have even been tortured to death;
Whereas Falun Gong practitioners continue to report harass-
ment and acts of violence at the hands of foreign nation-
als which have occurred against them during peaceful
protests in the United States and other countries;
Whereas the Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently in-
vestigating the possibility of links between attacks
against Falun Gong practitioners in the United States
and the Government of the People’s Republic of China;
Whereas Catholics who remain faithful to the Pope and in
communion with Rome face continuing restrictions, in-
cluding difficulties holding worship services, obtaining
building permits for churches, and training clergy;
Whereas Protestant house church leaders are facing increased
pressure to register with the official Protestant church or
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face harassment, detention, and destruction of their
places of worship;
Whereas many Catholic and Protestant leaders and believers
have been imprisoned or subject to house arrest including
Su Zhimin, a Catholic Bishop who was reportedly ar-
rested in 1997 and who is currently reported to be in
very poor health;
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China
continues to exert tight control over the religious and cul-
tural institutions of Tibetan Buddhists and Uighur Mus-
lims, using torture, arbitrary arrest, and detention with-
out public trial against these individuals for peacefully
expressing their religious or political views;
Whereas the whereabouts of Gendun Choekyi Nyima, the boy
identified by the Dalai Lama as the 11th Panchen Lama,
are still unknown;
Whereas Gendun Choekyi Nyima was 6 years old when the
Chinese authorities took him and his family away in
1995;
Whereas it is believed that the Chinese authorities are hold-
ing him in a secret location;
Whereas Tibetans caught displaying photos of the 11th Pan-
chen Lama or the Dalai Lama face harassment, fines,
and detention;
Whereas in January 2003, the Government of the People’s
Republic of China executed a Tibetan man named
Lobsang Dhondup without due process and despite re-
peated assurances to United States officials that his case
and that of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche would be would re-
viewed by the Chinese Supreme People’s Court;
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Whereas this review never happened and Tenzin Delek
Rinpoche remains on death row, in the second year of his
suspended death sentence;
Whereas enforcement by the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China of its one-child per family policy has been
cruel and inhumane and has included the use of forced
abortion and forced sterilization;
Whereas this one-child per family policy has led to the aban-
donment and infanticide of baby girls and a dispropor-
tionate number of male children in China, which will have
serious and detrimental sociological impacts on China for
years to come;
Whereas 14 years after the 1989 pro-democracy demonstra-
tions in Tiananmen Square, many protesters remain in
prison and no independent investigations have taken
place regarding the massacre that occurred during those
demonstrations;
Whereas authorities in the People’s Republic of China have
continued their efforts to extinguish expressions of pro-
test or criticism and have detained and sentenced scores
of citizens associated with attempts to organize peaceful
protests, to expose corruption, to preserve their ethnic
minority identity, and to use the Internet for the free ex-
change of ideas;
Whereas many prisoners in China are confined to state run
psychiatric hospitals for simple acts of expressing their
thoughts on political issues, like veteran human rights ac-
tivist and prisoner of conscience Wang Wanxing;
Whereas many Chinese prisoners are in Laogai, forced labor
camps in which inmates are subject to various forms of
cruel and forced labor;
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Whereas the International Committee of the Red Cross and
other international human rights organizations have been
denied access to the Chinese prison system;
Whereas it well documented that organs taken from executed
prisoners are sold for use in transplants in China and
abroad;
Whereas the percentage of transplant kidneys estimated to be
derived from executed prisoners in China has been put as
high as 90 percent of all transplanted kidneys in China;
Whereas organs reported to be harvested from executed pris-
oners in China include corneas, kidneys, and hearts;
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China
agreed during the December 2002 session of the United
States-China Bilateral Human Rights Dialogue to invite,
without conditions, the United States Commission on
International Religious Freedom, the United Nations
Special Rapporteurs on Religious Intolerance and Tor-
ture, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbi-
trary Detention to visit China;
Whereas none of these visits have taken place in the last year
and, in the case of the United States Commission on
International Religious Freedom, two agreed upon trips
were canceled because of unacceptable conditions placed
on the visit by the Government of the People’s Republic
of China;
Whereas the United States decision not to introduce a resolu-
tion calling upon the People’s Republic of China to end
its human rights violations in China at the 59th Session
of United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Ge-
neva was based, in part, on the belief that the aforemen-
tioned agreements signaled a good faith commitment on
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the part of Chinese officials to improve human rights
practice in China;
Whereas when well-founded, balanced, and accurate resolu-
tions regarding human rights in China were raised in
previous sessions of the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights, the Government of the People’s Republic
of China strongly pressured other countries to oppose the
consideration of those resolutions;
Whereas since the last session of the United States China Bi-
lateral Human Rights Dialogue, a number of very trou-
bling incidents have occurred, including—
(1) the arrests of a number of democracy advocates,
(2) the detention and torture of 18 Tibetans who
were forcibly repatriated from Nepal with the cooperation
of Chinese officials, in contravention of international law,
(3) the ongoing forced repatriation of North Korean
nationals, who upon return to North Korea will face al-
most certain arrest, torture, or even death,
(4) the arrest and sentencing of Internet essayists
and labor protesters,
(5) the execution of Lobsang Dondrup and contin-
ued detention of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, and
(6) the continued refusal to allow access by United
States diplomats and family members of the accused to
the trials of those detained for political or religious activi-
ties;
Whereas the People’s Republic of China has signed the Inter-
national Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, but has
yet to take the necessary steps to make the treaty legally
binding;
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Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China
is a party to the 1951 United Nations Convention Relat-
ing to Refugees and its 1967 Protocol;
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China
is a party to the United Nations Convention Against Tor-
ture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment; and
Whereas the Constitution and laws of the People’s Republic
of China purport to provide for fundamental human
rights, however, the protections of these rights are often
ignored in practice: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That—
(1) it is the sense of Congress that—
(A) the United States Government should con-
tinue to insist that the People’s Republic of China
adhere to fundamental human rights principles and
allow its citizens the full enjoyment of those rights;
(B) at the 60th Session of the United Nations
Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland,
the appropriate representative of the United States
should introduce a resolution calling upon the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China to end its human rights vio-
lations in China and meet internationally recognized
standards for human rights;
(C) the United States Government should take
the lead in organizing multilateral support to obtain
passage by the Commission of such a resolution and
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(B) to stop the forced return of North Korean
refugees, to allow the United Nations High Com-
missioner for Refugees access to North Koreans in-
side China, and to work with the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees to develop a viable
solution to the humanitarian crisis involving North
Korean refugees;
(C) to end its coercive one-child per family pol-
icy and ensure that no national, provincial, or local
government officials subject women to forced abor-
tions or sterilizations;
(D) to immediately hold an open and trans-
parent investigation into the 1989 crackdown on
pro-democracy 
demonstrators 
in 
Tiananmen
Square, to release all the prisoners held in connec-
tion with that event, and to pay compensation to
the families who lost their loved ones;
(E) to release from detention all prisoners of
conscience, persons held because of their religious
activities, and persons of humanitarian concern;
(F) to release the 11th Panchen Lama identi-
fied by Dalai Lama and allow him to undertake his
rightful role;
(G) to allow the Chinese people to practice
freely and openly their religious beliefs;
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(H) to adhere to the provisions and guidelines
of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the United Nations Convention Against
Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the 1951
Convention Relating to Refugees and its 1967 Pro-
tocol; and
(I) to allow, immediately and without restric-
tions, visits to China by the United States Commis-
sion on International Religious Freedom, the
United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Religious
Intolerance and Torture, the United Nations Work-
ing Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the Inter-
national Committee of the Red Cross.
Attest:
Clerk.