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Expressing solidarity with Falun Gong practitioners who have lost lives, freedoms, and rights for adhering to their beliefs and practices and condemning the practice of non-consenting organ harvesting, and for other purposes.

S. Res. 220 · 115th Congress · Jul 13, 2017 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

That the Senate—
(1)
expresses solidarity with Falun Gong practitioners and their families for the lives, freedoms, and rights they lost for adhering to their beliefs and practices;
(2)
emphasizes to the Government of the People’s Republic of China that freedom of religion includes the right of Falun Gong practitioners to freely practice Falun Gong in China;
(3)
calls upon the Communist Party of China to immediately cease and desist from its campaign to persecute Falun Gong practitioners and promptly release all Falun Gong practitioners who have been confined, detained, or imprisoned for pursuing their right to hold and exercise their spiritual beliefs;
(4)
condemns the practice of non-consenting organ harvesting in the People’s Republic of China;
(5)
calls on the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Communist Party of China to immediately end the practice of organ harvesting from all prisoners of conscience; and
(6)
calls on the People’s Republic of China to allow an independent and transparent investigation into organ transplant abuses.