US Congress House Resolution 953 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-5)
Status: Introduced on December 8 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2009-12-08 - Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Pending: House Foreign Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Condemns any violence against innocent individuals regardless of their ethnicity, gender, or religious beliefs. Calls on the government of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) to: (1) desist from further executions based on trials that violate human rights and due process standards; (2) allow international observers and the media to attend such trials; (3) provide a list of individuals detained in the aftermath of the July 2009 events in Xinjiang to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the public; and (4) cease all crackdowns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Calls on the President of the United States to: (1) state the strong U.S. opposition to these legally flawed trials and executions; (2) raise human rights concerns publicly and in all meetings with Chinese officials; (3) restate U.S. interest to open consulates in Lhasa, Tibet, and in Urumqi, Xinjiang; and (4) direct the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to automatically request permission from Chinese authorities for Embassy staff to observe trials if credible reasons exist that such trials may not meet human rights and legal standards.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the People's Republic of China has violated internationally recognized human rights and legal due process standards by carrying out executions after trials marred by procedural abuses and by carrying out arbitrary detentions targeting Uyghurs and other individuals in Xinjiang in the aftermath of a suppressed demonstration and ensuing mob violence on July 5 to 7, 2009.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Rep. Anh Cao [R-LA]	Rep. Bill Delahunt [D-MA]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]
Rep. Bob Inglis [R-SC]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. James Moran [D-VA]	Rep. Joseph Pitts [R-PA]
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Heath Shuler [D-NC]	Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]	Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]
Rep. Frank Wolf [R-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-12-08		Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-resolution/953/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hres953/BILLS-111hres953ih.pdf