[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 252 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 252

   Expressing the sense of the Senate that Rebiya Kadeer, her family 
   member and business associate, should be released by the People's 
                           Republic of China.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 2, 2000

Mr. Wellstone submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing the sense of the Senate that Rebiya Kadeer, her family 
   member and business associate, should be released by the People's 
                           Republic of China.

Whereas members of the Uighur minority population in Xinjiang, China, are 
        subject to ongoing repression and violations of their internationally 
        recognized rights of free expression, association, and belief;
Whereas on August 11, 1999, the Government of the People's Republic of China 
        arbitrarily detained Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent and respected Uighur 
        businesswoman well-known in the United States;
Whereas from 1993 to 1998, Ms. Kadeer was an elected member of the Provincial 
        People's Political Consultative Conference in Xinjiang;
Whereas in 1995, Ms. Kadeer was a delegate to the United Nations Fourth World 
        Conference on Women in Beijing;
Whereas the police have detained Ms. Kadeer previously and kept her under close 
        surveillance, threatening her because of the alleged separatist 
        activities of her husband, who came to the United States in 1996 and was 
        granted political asylum after publishing articles critical of the 
        Chinese Government;
Whereas on September 2, 1999, Chinese authorities formally charged Ms. Kadeer 
        with ``illegally offering state secrets across the border'', and she is 
        currently detained in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang;
Whereas Ms. Kadeer's son, Ablikim Abdyirim, and her secretary, Kahriman 
        Abdukirim, were also arbitrarily detained by Chinese security forces in 
        August 1999 in Urumqi, without any justification or evidence of their 
        involvement in criminal activities of any kind; and
Whereas on November 20, 1999, Ablikim Abdyirim was sent for 2 years to the 
        Wulabai Reeducation Through Labor School, without charge or judicial 
        review, in clear violation of international human rights standards, and 
        Kahriman Abdukirim received a 3-year sentence in the same facility: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, that the President should express to the representatives 
of the Government of the People's Republic of China the sense of the 
Senate that Ms. Kadeer, her family member and business associate, 
should be immediately and unconditionally released.
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