June 6, 2024 | Press Releases U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Reauthorization Act of 2024. U.S Senator Marco Rubio said: “The People’s Republic of China continues its brutal suppression of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups. The United States […]
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Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the Uyghur Policy Act, a bill to increase U.S. support for the Uyghur diaspora in the United States and other countries, as well as to advocate for improving the conditions of Uyghurs suffering human rights abuses at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). U.S. Representatives Young Kim (R-CA) and Ami Bera (D-CA) introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
Today, on September 11, 2019, the US Senate passed the “Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019,” a bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez. The senators introduced the bill to condemn the gross human rights violations against ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang (also known as East […]