,h4 ,,res4 #eii  ,in the ,house of      
,representatives1 ,u4 ,s41  ,may #bh1   
#bjad  ,,resolution  ,whereas on ,june  
#d1 #aihi1 peaceful demonstrations held 
in and around ,beijing's ,tiananmen     
,square were brutally crushed by the    
,people's ,liberation ,army1 carrying   
out the orders of ,china's ,communist   
,party leadership2 ,whereas the peaceful
 demonstrations of #aihi called upon the
 ,chinese ,communist ,party to eliminate
 corruption1 accelerate economic and    
political reforms1 and protect human    
rights1 particularly the freedoms of    
expression and assembly2 ,whereas by    
early ,may #aihi1 an estimated          
#a1jjj1jjj people joined the protests in
 ,tiananmen ,square and citizens in over
 #djj ,chinese cities staged similar    
protests for democratic reform1         
including not only students1 but also   
government employees1 journalists1      
workers1 police officers1 members of the
 armed forces1 and other citizens2      
,whereas on ,may #bj1 #aihi1 martial law

 was declared in ,beijing1 ,china1 after
 authorities had failed to persuade     
demonstrators to leave ,tiananmen       
,square2 ,whereas during the late       
afternoon and early evening hours of    
,june #c1 #aihi1 thousands of armed     
troops1 supported by tanks and other    
armor1 moved into ,beijing to clear the 
,square and surrounding streets of      
demonstrators2 ,whereas on the night of 
,june #c1 #aihi1 and continuing into the
 morning of ,june #d1 #aihi1 soldiers   
fired into crowds1 inflicting high      
civilian casualties1 killing or injuring
 unarmed civilians2 ,whereas tanks      
crushed to death some protesters and    
onlookers2 ,whereas independent         
observers report that hundreds1 perhaps 
thousands1 were killed and wounded by   
the ,people's ,liberation ,army soldiers
 and other security forces2 ,whereas    
#bj1jjj people throughout ,china        
suspected of taking part in the         
democracy movement were reportedly      
arrested and sentenced without trial to 

prison or reeducation through labor1 and
 many were reportedly tortured1 with    
many being imprisoned for decades2      
,whereas the ,tiananmen ,mothers is a   
group of relatives and friends of those 
killed in ,june #aihi whose demands     
include the right to mourn victims      
publicly1 to call for a full and public 
accounting of the wounded and dead1 and 
the release of those who remain         
imprisoned for participating in the     
#aihi protests2 ,whereas members of the 
,tiananmen ,mothers group have faced    
arrest1 harassment1 and discrimination1 
with the group's website blocked in     
,china and international cash donations 
made to the group to support families of
 victims reportedly frozen by ,chinese  
authorities2 ,whereas the ,chinese      
,government undertakes active measures  
to deny its citizens the truth about the
 ,tiananmen ,square ,massacre1 including
 the blocking of uncensored ,internet   
sites and weblogs1 and the placement of 
misleading information on the events of 

,june #c1 #aihi1 through ,june #d1      
#aihi1 on ,internet sites available in  
,china2 ,whereas the ,chinese           
,government continues to suppress       
dissent by imprisoning pro-democracy    
activists1 lawyers1 journalists1 labor  
union leaders1 religious believers1     
members of ethnic minority rights       
organizations1 and other individuals in 
,xinjiang and ,tibet who seek to express
 their political or religious views or  
their ethnic identity in a peaceful     
manner2 ,whereas ,chinese authorities   
continue to harass and detain peaceful  
advocates for human rights1 religious   
freedom1 ethnic minority rights and the 
rule of law1 and their family members1  
such as ,nobel ,prize ,laureate ,liu    
,xiaobo and his wife ,liu ,xia1 ,gao    
,zhisheng1 ,wang ,bingzhang1 ,peng      
,ming1 ,zhu ,yufu1 ,lobsang ,tsering1   
,ilham ,tohti1 ,yang ,maodong 7also     
known as ,guo ,feixiong71 ,sun ,desheng1
 ,liu ,yuandong1 ,guo ,quan1 ,liu       
,xianbin1 ,yang ,rongli1 ,alimujiang    

,yimiti1 ,yang ,tianshui1 ,wang ,zhiwen1
 ,li ,chang1 ,gulmira ,imin1 ,dhondup   
,wangchen1 and ,chen ,kegui1 nephew of  
blind human rights activists ,chen      
,guangcheng2 ,whereas according to the  
,prisoner ,database maintained by the   
,united ,states                         
,congressional-,executive ,commission on
 ,china1 the ,communist ,government of  
,china continues to detain over #a1cjj  
prisoners of conscience1 though the     
number may be much higher2 ,whereas the 
,chinese authorities continue to        
maintain a system of labor camps and    
black jails to detain peaceful advocates
 for human rights and democratic        
freedoms1 harasses and detains human    
rights lawyers who take on cases deemed 
politically sensitive1 limits the number
 of children ,chinese couples may have1 
including through the practice of forced
 abortions and sterilizations1 restricts
 severely the religious activity of     
,protestants1 ,catholics1 ,tibetan      
,buddhists1 and ,uyghur ,muslims1       

conducted a #ae-year campaign to        
eradicate ,falun ,gong practice in      
,china1 publicly vilifies1 and refuses  
to negotiate with1 the ,dalai ,lama over
 ,tibetan issues1 and1 forcibly         
repatriates thousands of refugees to    
,north ,korea who face persecution1     
imprisonment1 and possible execution in 
violation of its international          
commitments2 ,whereas the ,government of
 ,china maintains tight control of      
speech1 religion1 and assembly1 and has 
continually received poor rankings      
focused on civil liberties and political
 rights by nongovernmental              
organizations2 ,whereas the ,united     
,states ,commission on ,international   
,religious ,freedom's most recent annual
 report has found that the 8,chinese    
government continues to perpetrate      
particularly severe violations of       
religious freedom01 with conditions     
8worse now than at any time in the past 
decade0 for religious minorities1       
findings which again contributed to the 

,commission recommending that ,china be 
designated as a country of particular   
concern2 ,whereas the ,united ,states   
,department of ,state's most recent     
human rights report on ,china found     
8extrajudicial killings0 occurred in    
,china2 ,whereas the ,united ,states    
,department of ,state's most recent     
human rights report on ,china found that
 the ,government continued to target for
 arbitrary detention or arrest human    
rights activists1 journalists 99 99 99  
and former political prisoners and their
 family members2 ,whereas freedom of    
expression and assembly are fundamental 
human rights that belong to all people1 
and are recognized as such under the    
,universal ,declaration of ,human       
,rights and the ,international ,covenant
 on ,civil and ,political ,rights2 and  
,whereas a ,government of ,china which  
respects the individual rights of all   
its people would be more likely to have 
productive economic1 political1 and     
security relations with its neighbors   

and the ,united ,states3 ,now1          
therefore1 be it  ,that the ,house of   
,representatives--  7#a7 urges the      
,government of the ,people's ,republic  
of ,china to stop censoring information 
about the ,tiananmen ,square massacre2  
7#b7 expresses sympathy to the families 
of those killed1 tortured1 and          
imprisoned as a result of their         
participation in the democracy protests 
of ,june #d1 #aihi1 in ,tiananmen       
,square1 ,beijing1 in the ,people's     
,republic of ,china2  7#c7 supports all 
peaceful advocates for human rights and 
the rule of law in ,china for their     
efforts to advance democratic reforms   
and human rights during the past2  7#d7 
condemns the ongoing human rights abuses
 and persecution by the ,government of  
the ,people's ,republic of ,china and   
its efforts to quell peaceful political 
dissent1 censor the ,internet1 suppress 
ethnic and religious minorities1 limit  
the number of children had by ,chinese  
couples through coercion and violence1  

and harass and detain lawyers and       
freedom advocates seeking the           
,government's commitment1 in law and    
practice1 to international human rights 
treaties and covenants to which it is a 
party2  7#e7 calls on the ,broadcasting 
,board of ,governors 7,,bbg7 to take all
 appropriate steps to circumvent        
,chinese ,internet censorship and to    
provide information to the people of    
,china about the ,tiananmen ,square     
,massacre2  7#f7 calls on the ,united   
,states ,government to--  7,a7 make     
human rights1 including religious       
freedom1 a priority in bilateral        
discussions with the ,chinese           
,government2 and  7,b7 instruct the     
,united ,states representative at the   
,united ,nations ,human ,rights ,council
 to introduce a resolution calling for  
an examination of the human rights      
practices of the ,government of the     
,people's ,republic of ,china2  7#g7    
calls on the ,government of the         
,people's ,republic of ,china to--  7,a7

 end the harassment1 detention1 torture1
 and imprisonment of ,chinese citizens  
expressing their legitimate freedom of  
religion1 expression1 and association1  
including on the ,internet2  7,b7       
release all remaining prisoners of      
conscience who continue to be detained  
as a result of their participation in   
the peaceful pro-democracy              
demonstrations in #aihi1 especially     
around ,tiananmen ,square2  7,c7 end the
 harassment and discrimination of those 
involved in the #aihi protests and their
 families1 permit ,chinese citizens to  
freely commemorate and share information
 about ,tiananmen2  7,d7 allow protest  
participants who escaped to or are      
living in exile in the ,united ,states  
and other countries1 or who reside      
outside of ,china because they have been
 blacklisted in ,china as a result of   
their peaceful protest activity1 to     
return to ,china without risk of        
retribution or repercussion and fully   
repeal any laws or decrees that deny    

them the ability to travel to ,china2   
and  7,e7 end ,internet1 media1 and     
academic censorship of discussions of   
the ,tiananmen ,protests and events     
surrounding it2  7#h7 calls on the      
,administration and ,members of         
,congress to take steps to continue to  
mark the events of ,tiananmen ,square-- 
7,a7 meeting with participants in the   
demonstrations1 or their families1 who  
are living in the ,united ,states2  7,b7
 meeting with others outside of ,china  
who have been blacklisted in ,china as a
 result of their peaceful protest       
activities2  7,c7 signaling support for 
those in ,china who demand an           
independent and credible accounting of  
the events surrounding ,june #d1 #aihi2 
and  7,d7 supporting those advocating   
for accountable and democratic          
governance1 human rights1 and the rule  
of law in ,china2 and  7#i7 finds that  
,united ,states relations with ,china   
are more likely to further improve once 
the ,government recognizes and respects 

the individual human rights of all its  
people4  ,clerk4