IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 416 
Condemning Communist China’s discrimination, harassment, imprisonment, 
torture, and execution of its prisoners of conscience, and supporting 
the Tuidang movement whereby Chinese citizens renounce their ties 
to the Chinese Communist Party. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 
Mr. MCCOTTER (for himself, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. 
BILIRAKIS, Mr. JONES, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, and 
Mrs. MYRICK) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning Communist China’s discrimination, harassment, 
imprisonment, torture, and execution of its prisoners of 
conscience, and supporting the Tuidang movement 
whereby Chinese citizens renounce their ties to the Chi-
nese Communist Party. 
Whereas according to Article 18 of the Universal Declaration 
of Human Rights, ‘‘Everyone has the right to freedom of 
thought, conscience and religion; this right includes free-
dom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either 
alone or in community with others and in public or pri-
vate, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, prac-
tice, worship and observance’’; 
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•HRES 416 IH 
Whereas Communist China is an original party to the Uni-
versal Declaration of Human Rights; 
Whereas according to the United States Commission on 
International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) 2011 An-
nual Report, in Communist China, ‘‘the government ac-
tively restricts, harasses, detains, and imprisons: groups 
that are not registered, or will not register, for political 
or theological reasons; individuals who publicly organize 
legal, media, or popular defense of religious freedom; and 
groups or leaders deemed to threaten the Communist 
Party.’’; 
Whereas according to the USCIRF 2011 Annual Report, the 
Chinese Government, ‘‘supports extralegal security forces 
to suppress the activities of so-called ‘cult’ organizations, 
actively harasses, imprisons, tortures, and disappears ad-
vocates for greater religious freedom, destroys unregis-
tered religious venues, and severely restricts online access 
to religious information and the authority of religious 
communities to choose their own leadership and parents 
to teach their children religion.’’; 
Whereas according to the United States Department of 
State’s 2010 Annual Report on International Religious 
Freedom, in the last reporting period, ‘‘The government 
detained, arrested, or sentenced to prison a number of re-
ligious leaders and adherents for activities related to their 
religious practice. These activities included assembling 
for religious worship, expressing religious beliefs in public 
and in private, and publishing religious texts.’’; 
Whereas all religious groups in Communist China who are 
not registered with one of the 5 government-approved re-
ligious associations face some kind of repression by the 
government; 
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•HRES 416 IH 
Whereas, on October 30, 1999, China’s National People’s 
Congress promulgated an ‘‘anti-cult’’ law to suppress re-
ligious freedom and political dissent across the country; 
Whereas according to the United States Congressional-Execu-
tive Commission on China’s 2011 Annual Report, ‘‘The 
Chinese government and Communist Party continued to 
restrict the religious activities and doctrine of Chinese 
Protestants who worship in the state-controlled church, a 
network of at least 20 million citizens and 50,000 
churches . . . The government made strong efforts to 
interfere with the internal affairs of some unregistered 
congregations through such means as the arbitrary de-
tention of religious leaders, violent raids, destruction of 
worship sites, attempts to prevent members from gath-
ering, and the labeling of some Protestant organizations 
as ‘cults’ ’’; 
Whereas, on May 27, 2001, Christian journalist Li Ying was 
arrested by the Communist Chinese authorities for her 
involvement in publishing an ‘‘underground’’ Christian 
church magazine, and she is presently serving a 15-year 
prison sentence in Communist China’s Wuhan Female 
Prison in Hubei Province; 
Whereas, on August 20, 2001, Sun Minghua was arrested by 
Communist Chinese authorities for her leadership posi-
tion in the South China Church, and she is presently 
serving a 13-year prison sentence in Communist China’s 
Wuhan Female Prison in Hubei Province; 
Whereas, on June 17, 2004, Jiang Zongxiu was arrested, in 
Guizhou Provence, by Communist Chinese authorities for 
distributing Christian literature and died the following 
day, June 18, 2004, after being beaten to death while in 
the custody of Communist Chinese authorities; 
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Whereas, on December 1, 2004, Pastor Zhang Rongliang was 
arrested in Xuzahi village by Communist Chinese au-
thorities and sentenced to 7.5 years in prison at the 
Third Detention Center in Zhengzhou City, Hennan 
Provence; 
Whereas previously, Pastor Rongliang served a combined 12 
years in Communist Chinese prisons where he has been 
tortured with electrical shocks; 
Whereas, on October 1, 2007, Hua Huiqi was placed under 
house arrest in Beijing by Communist Chinese authori-
ties for his role as a pastor of an ‘‘underground’’ house 
church; 
Whereas subsequently, on October 17, 2007, Hua Huiqi was 
beaten by Communist Chinese authorities because he 
would not reveal names of other ‘‘underground’’ Chris-
tians; 
Whereas according to the United States Congressional-Execu-
tive Commission on China, ‘‘at least 40 unregistered Chi-
nese bishops are in detention, home confinement, or sur-
veillance, are in hiding, or have disappeared under sus-
picious circumstances.’’; 
Whereas, on September 9, 2007, ‘‘underground’’ Bishop Han 
Dingxiang of the Diocese of Yong Nian died in a Com-
munist Chinese prison after being detained for nearly 8 
years; 
Whereas during his life, Bishop Dingxiang was arrested 11 
times and spent roughly 35 years in either labor camps, 
prisons, or under house arrest; 
Whereas Bishop Shi Enxiang and Bishop Su Shimin have 
been missing for more than 10 years, and the where-
abouts of Bishop Yao Ling are also unknown; 
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•HRES 416 IH 
Whereas according to the Laogai Research Foundation, Com-
munist China continues to operate a vast network of 
forced 
labor 
or 
re-education-through-labor 
camps 
(Laogai) where at least 250,000 people are currently im-
prisoned, many of these individuals are religious minori-
ties and Falun Gong practitioners; 
Whereas since 1999, more than 6,000 Falun Gong practi-
tioners have reportedly served time in prison, with more 
than 100,000 practitioners being sent to re-education- 
through-labor camps; 
Whereas according to the USCRIF, during the last several 
years there have been allegations of government-sanc-
tioned organ harvesting from incarcerated practitioners; 
Whereas, on September 22, 2007, Chinese human rights law-
yer Gao Zhisheng was secretly taken from his home after 
sending an open letter to the United States Congress re-
counting Communist China’s elimination of over 3,000 
Falun Gong practitioners; 
Whereas Gao Zhisheng was repeatedly tortured and abused 
while in custody and has been missing since April 2010; 
Whereas in November 2004, the publication of ‘‘Nine Com-
mentaries on the Communist Party’’ by the United 
States-based newspaper, the Epoch Times, led to the cre-
ation of the Tuidang movement; 
Whereas the Tuidang movement, which means ‘‘withdraw 
from the communist party’’, has encouraged as many as 
100,000,000 people to publicly renounce their member-
ship in the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates; 
and 
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•HRES 416 IH 
Whereas it is in the national interest for the United States 
Government to actively promote religious freedom and de-
mocracy in Communist China: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns Communist China’s discrimina-
tion, harassment, imprisonment, torture, and execu-
tion of its prisoners of conscience; 
(2) calls upon Communist China to imme-
diately— 
(A) cease harassment and discrimination 
against all unregistered religious organizations 
and individual practitioners; and 
(B) release its prisoners of conscience; 
(3) calls upon Communist China to publicly re-
lease information about— 
(A) the number of prisoners of conscience 
presently detained in Communist China (includ-
ing Communist China’s Laogai prison camp 
system); 
(B) the number of prisoners of conscience 
executed or tortured in Communist China (in-
cluding Communist China’s Laogai prison camp 
system); and 
(C) the extent of Communist China’s 
organ harvesting among its prisoners of con-
science; 
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(4) expresses sympathy and condolences to the 
families of prisoners of conscience who have been 
imprisoned, tortured, and murdered by the Com-
munist Chinese government; 
(5) calls upon Communist China to allow the 
United States Commission on International Reli-
gious Freedom or international humanitarian orga-
nizations unrestricted access to current and former 
prisoners of conscience held in Communist China’s 
jails, prison, administrative detention centers, and 
Laogai prison camp system; 
(6) urges the Administration to raise the issue 
of Communist China’s prisoners of conscience in 
high-level diplomatic meetings with Communist Chi-
nese officials; and 
(7) expresses support for the Tuidang move-
ment and its members for their peaceful efforts in 
pursuit of religious freedom and a free and demo-
cratic government in China. 
Æ 
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