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    <item congress="119" measure-type="sres" measure-number="98" measure-id="id119sres98" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2025-02-26" update-date="2025-05-08">
        <title>A resolution condemning Beijing's destruction of Hong Kong's democracy and rule of law.</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119sres98v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2025-05-08">
            <action-date>2025-02-26</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p>This resolution condemns China's Hong Kong national security law (officially called The Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region), the Hong Kong government's&nbsp;Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, and related human rights abuses. The resolution also (1) supports the people of Hong Kong as they fight to exercise fundamental rights and freedoms; and (2) calls upon the Hong Kong government to drop all sedition and national security law-related charges and free all defendants immediately, including Jimmy Lai.</p>]]></summary-text>
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