we use the US needs the new Policy Act Uyghur Human Rights to penalize Chinese officials for religious persecution

After years of hard work, Congress approved the Policy Act Uyghur human rights, on May 28, with an overwhelming majority. This is dedicated to the first law of history, to promote the rights of the Uighur and in front of other Muslims in China, the systematic persecution because of their religious beliefs. It will ensure US policy toward China considers violations of religious freedom by the Chinese government. The new law also directs the financial sanctions the US government and visa bans against the Chinese government officials to impose responsible for the persecution of Muslims. It requires to protect American soil an FBI report to Congress on Uighurs efforts by the Chinese government intimidation and harassment. In addition, it would require the administration to report, including official estimates the number of people imprisoned in concentration camps on human rights abuses in the Uighur region. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of officials complicity in China. I urge the President to impose sanctions Donald Trump and Finance Minister Steven Mnuchin against them, including the Communist Party Secretary Chen Quanguo. which controls Buddhist monasteries, as well as concentration camps in the region supervision of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur is the home and is known as East Turkestan Chen also responsible for creating a surveillance society in Tibet. The US government should also political and legislative former head of the Commission for business Zhu Hailun, the architect of the repressive policy of China against Uyghur target. Furthermore, I call on Congress to quickly a second bill that forced Uyghur Act approved labor protection that would direct the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to believe that all goods produced in the Uyghur region are the product of forced labor . CBP has already blocked the import of individual Chinese companies due to concerns about forced labor. This bill would help ensure that American consumers do not shop that would violate their sense of justice. I understand the reluctance of some US officials that the authority to use and complicates the already complicated US-China relationship. But now is the time to act; We have to show that there will be serious consequences for the Communist Party alleged crimes against humanity. While no country has a perfect record on human rights, it has nothing to show that the differences between China and the United States better than they treat their Muslim population. In China, the Communist Party of Islam as a treatment for mental illness and has millions of Muslims who show their faith visible as interned growing a beard or wearing veils. In the United States, a Muslim at the National Security Council in 2019 in Urumqi, the regional capital was appointed Uyghur-American, authorities have campaigned against halal dietary restrictions. In Washington D. C, Uighurs several restaurants open. My story, and as I came for my colleague Uyghur lawyer, is only in America. I was born in a Chinese re-education camp in 1970, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. While there are many things I love my homeland East Turkestan ancestors, China offers few opportunities for ethnic and religious minorities like me. In 1995 he arrived in the United States for graduate school and had to get political asylum luck. after I pursue my dream of becoming a lawyer. Even though I live the American dream, many of my friends and families together with the other millions of ethnic and religious minorities living in a Chinese dystopia. Since 2017, the Chinese government has imprisoned an estimated $1.8 million of my fellow Uighurs and Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities in Muslim majority in concentration camps. Since 2019, Chinese officials thousands of Uighurs and other Muslim prisoners forced to work in factories. There are credible reports that some American companies operating in China, including Apple and Nike, suppliers Source Uyghur forced labor. (Both companies have said they link their suppliers are required not to use forced labor.) I used my freedom of life in America, to advance the cause of millions of Uighurs. In 2003 I co-founded the Uyghur Human Rights Project and also served as president of the Uyghur American Association. On May 22, he was appointed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), where I advised the US government on the promotion and protection of religious freedom abroad. In the same week, the US Congress has taken an important step toward that goal. The passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act comes after years of efforts. Just a few years ago, few Americans had heard people on the situation of the Uighur. Now, senior officials of the US government, regularly champion our cause. Pompey Secretary has publicly Uighur problem more than two dozen times raised since last fall, including China’s treatment of Uyghur as a call “point on the century.” To ensure that Uighur Muslims can worship Tibetan Buddhists, Christians and all Chinese citizens, how they want to take more years of hard work. But the first time in years, I have a reason for optimism.
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