IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 821 
Condemning Communist China’s discrimination, harassment, imprisonment, 
torture, and execution of its prisoners of conscience. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 13, 2007 
Mr. MCCOTTER (for himself, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. KUHL 
of New York, Mr. STEARNS, and Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida) 
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. 
Whereas according to the United States Commission on 
International Religious Freedom’s (‘‘USCIRF’’) 2007 
Annual Report, ‘‘All religious groups in China face some 
restrictions, monitoring, and surveillance, . . . and reli-
gious freedom conditions deteriorated for communities 
not affiliated with one of the 7 government-approved reli-
gious organizations, . . . and those closely associated with 
ethnic minority groups. Religious communities particu-
larly targeted include . . . ‘underground’ Roman Catho-
lics, ‘house church’ Protestants, and various spiritual 
movements such as Falun Gong’’; 
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Whereas according to the USCIRF 2007 Annual Report, in 
Communist China, ‘‘There continue to be reports that 
prominent religious leaders and laypersons alike are con-
fined, tortured, ‘disappeared’, imprisoned, or subjected to 
other forms of ill treatment on account of their religion 
or belief’’; 
Whereas according the United States Congressional-Executive 
Commission on China’s 2007 Annual Report, ‘‘The Com-
mission noted a more visible trend in harassment and re-
pression of unregistered Protestants for alleged cult in-
volvement starting in mid-2006 . . .’’ and ‘‘an increase in 
harassment against unregistered Catholics starting in 
2004 and an increase in pressure on registered clerics be-
ginning in 2005’’; 
Whereas according to the United States Department of 
State’s 2006 Country Report on Human Rights practices 
in China, ‘‘Government officials continued to deny hold-
ing any political prisoners, asserting that authorities de-
tained persons not for their political or religious views, 
but because they violated the law; however, the authori-
ties continued to confine citizens for reasons related to 
politics and religion’’; 
Whereas according to Chapter II Article 36 of the constitu-
tion of Communist China, ‘‘No state organ, public orga-
nization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, 
or not to believe in, any religion; nor may they discrimi-
nate against citizens who believe in, or do not believe in, 
any religion’’; 
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 
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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’’; 
Whereas Communist China is an original party to the Uni-
versal Declaration of Human Rights; 
Whereas according to Human Rights Watch’s 2007 World 
Report, Communist Chinese authorities arrested ‘‘. . . as 
many as 1,958 [protestant Christians] in a one-year pe-
riod ending in June 2006—for attending training ses-
sions 
and 
Bible 
study 
meetings 
in 
unregistered 
venues . . .’’; 
Whereas according to Amnesty International’s 2007 Annual 
Report on China, ‘‘Thousands of members of under-
ground protestant ‘house churches’ and unofficial Catho-
lic churches were detained, many of whom were ill-treated 
or tortured in detention’’; 
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 
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day, June 18, 2004, after being beaten to death while in 
the custody of Communist Chinese authorities; 
Whereas on December 1, 2004, Pastor Zhang Rongliang was 
arrested in Xuzahi village by Communist Chinese au-
thorities and sentenced to seven and one-half years in 
prison at the Third Detention Center in Zhengzhou City, 
Hennan Provence. Previously, Pastor Rongliang served a 
combined 12 years in Communist Chinese prisons where 
he has been tortured with electrical shocks; 
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 
eight years. During his life, Bishop Dingxiang was ar-
rested 11 times and spent roughly 35 years in either 
labor camps, prisons, or under house arrest; 
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 over the past eight years; 
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. Subsequently, on October 17, 2007, Hua Huiqi 
was beaten by Communist Chinese authorities because he 
would not reveal names of other ‘‘underground’’ Chris-
tians. Presently, Communist Chinese authorities have im-
prisoned Hua Huiqi’s 76-year-old mother, Shuang 
Shuying; 
Whereas according to the Cardinal Kung Foundation, Bishop 
Lin Xili, Bishop Shi Enxiang, Bishop Su Zhimin, and 
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Bishop Yao Liang are being held in secret locations by 
the Communist Chinese government; and 
Whereas according to the Cardinal Kung Foundation, Father 
Huo Junlong, Father Liu Deli, Father Lu Genjun, Fa-
ther Ma Shunbao, and Father Ma Wuyong are presently 
detained in Communist Chinese prisons and Father Guo 
Ergrang, Father Yen Shuangxi, and Father Zhang 
Zhenquian are also detained and locked in small cages 
for roughly ten hours per day by the Communist Chinese 
government: 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 religious 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); 
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(B) the extent of Communist China’s 
organ harvesting among its prisoners of con-
science; and 
(C) the number of prisoners of conscience 
executed in Communist China (including Com-
munist China’s Laogai prison camp system); 
(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 
USCIRF or international humanitarian organiza-
tions unrestricted access to current and former pris-
oners of conscience held in Communist China’s jails, 
prison, administrative detention centers, and Laogai 
prison camp system; and 
(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. 
Æ 
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