S. 178: Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act of 2019

116th Congress

A bill to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these communities inside and outside China.

Sponsor: Sen. Marco Rubio — R — FL

Directs various U.S. government bodies to prepare reports on China's treatment of the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnic group. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence shall report to Congress on issues including the security threats caused by the Chinese government's reported crackdown on the Uyghur population in Xinjiang province, and on the transfer or development of technologies used to facilitate mass internment an...

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