IV 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 530 
Urging the appropriate representative of the United States to the 60th session 
of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to introduce a 
resolution calling upon the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
to end its human rights violations in China, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 24, 2004 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. WOLF, Mr. LANTOS, Ms. ROS- 
LEHTINEN, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. PENCE, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. BROWN of 
Ohio, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. COX, Mr. PITTS, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mrs. 
JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin, Mr. BERMAN, Ms. 
HARRIS, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. MCNULTY, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. 
ROTHMAN, Mr. CAPUANO, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. HOLT, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. 
UDALL of New Mexico, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. TANCREDO, 
Mr. KIRK, Mr. BURR, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. FRANKS of 
Arizona, Mrs. KELLY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. ANDREWS, 
Mr. PICKERING, Ms. MCCARTHY of Missouri, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. AKIN, and 
Mr. MENENDEZ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on International Relations 
RESOLUTION 
Urging the appropriate representative of the United States 
to the 60th session of the United Nations Commission 
on Human Rights to introduce a resolution calling upon 
the Government of the People’s Republic of China to 
end its human rights violations in China, and for other 
purposes.
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Whereas the annual meeting of the United Nations Commis-
sion on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, is the 
most important international forum for discussing human 
rights and expressing international support for improved 
human rights performance; 
Whereas according to the Department of State, the United 
States Commission on International Religious Freedom, 
and international human rights organizations, the Gov-
ernment of the People’s Republic of China continues to 
commit well-documented human rights abuses against the 
Chinese people; 
Whereas the People’s Republic of China has yet to dem-
onstrate its willingness to abide by internationally accept-
ed norms of freedom of belief, expression, and association 
by repealing or amending laws and decrees that restrict 
those freedoms; 
Whereas the Government of People’s Republic of China con-
tinues to ban and criminalize groups it labels as cults or 
heretical organizations; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
has repressed unregistered religious groups and spiritual 
movements and persists in persecuting persons on the 
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;
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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 Catholic and Protestant believers continue to face 
severe repression in China which include difficulties gain-
ing recognition from the government, holding services, 
and training clergy; 
Whereas underground Catholics who remain faithful to the 
Pope and in communion with Rome face particularly 
harsh persecution; 
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-
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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; 
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
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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; 
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;
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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, including refusing the Commission entry into 
Hong Kong; 
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 
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;
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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; 
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
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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 State Government should 
continue to insist that the People’s Republic of 
China adhere to fundamental human rights 
principles and allow its citizens the full enjoy-
ment of those rights; 
(B) at the 60th Session of the United Na-
tions Human Rights Commission in Geneva, 
Switzerland, the appropriate representative of 
the United States should introduce a resolution 
calling upon the People’s Republic of China to 
end its human rights violations 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 should draft the resolution in 
such a way as to highlight specific human 
rights abuses; 
(D) all countries with representatives at 
the 60th Session of the United Nations Human 
Rights Commission should support passage of
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such a resolution and resist efforts by rep-
resentatives of the People’s Republic of China 
to oppose the consideration or passage of such 
a resolution; and 
(E) United States Government officials 
and officials from other governments should 
continue to speak out in international forums 
and elsewhere against Chinese repression of re-
ligious and political freedom, persecution of Ti-
betans, Falun Gong practitioners, Catholics, 
Protestants, and Uighur Muslims, the unjust 
arrest and detention of religious leaders and po-
litical dissidents, harsh conditions in Laogai 
and other prisons, coercive family planning poli-
cies, and the forced return of North Korean ref-
ugees; and 
(2) Congress urges the Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China— 
(A) to take the necessary measures to stop 
the persecution of all religious practitioners and 
to safeguard fundamental human rights; 
(B) to stop the forced return of North Ko-
rean refugees, to allow the United Nations 
High Commissioner for Refugees access to 
North Koreans inside China, and to work with
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the United Nations High Commissioner for 
Refugees to develop a viable solution to the hu-
manitarian crisis involving North Korean refu-
gees; 
(C) to end its coercive one-child per family 
policy and ensure that no national, provincial, 
or local government officials subject women to 
forced abortions or sterilizations; 
(D) to immediately hold an open and 
transparent investigation into the 1989 crack-
down 
on 
pro-democracy 
demonstrators 
in 
Tiananmen Square, to release all the prisoners 
held in connection 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 reli-
gious activities, and persons of humanitarian 
concern, including, but not limited to, Rebiya 
Kadeer, 
Su 
Zhimin, 
Yang 
Jianli, 
Wang 
Bingzhang, 
Jampel 
Changchub, 
Phuntsog 
Nyidron, 
Sonam 
Phuntsog, 
Ngawang 
Phulchung, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Geshe 
Sonam 
Phunsok, 
Gong 
Shengliang, 
Xu 
Guoxing, Huang Aiping, Li Minglong, Ji