[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 16556-16557]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 EXPRESSING SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING RELEASE OF RABIYA KADEER, HER 
   SECRETARY AND SON BY GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

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                               speech of

                           HON. FRANK R. WOLF

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 24, 2000

  Mr. WOLF. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this resolution that 
calls on the People's Republic of China to immediately release Rabiya 
Kadeer, a prominent Uighur businesswomen, her son, and her secretary.
  When the Chinese government arrests and imprisons people like this, 
it is an important reminder to all of us of the true character of the 
Chinese regime. The State Department's 1999 Human Rights Report on 
China stated this

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clearly, saying, ``The [Chinese] government's poor human rights record 
deteriorated markedly throughout the year as the Government intensified 
efforts to suppress dissent, particularly organized dissent.''
  The Chinese government will stop at nothing to silence any voice of 
freedom and truth. The Chinese government murders its own people to 
stay in power, flattening thousands of its own citizens who supported 
the Tiananmen Square democracy movement. The Chinese government has 
arrested, imprisoned, or kicked out of the country virtually every 
leading democratic dissident.
  People of faith are persecuted by the Chinese government. Christians, 
Tibetan Bhuddists, and Muslim Uighurs like Ms. Kadeer are imprisoned 
and forced into prison labor, because of their faith. The Chinese 
regime has imprisoned old men like 80-90 year-old-Catholic bishops. The 
government regularly persecutes and imprisons priests and Protestant 
House church leaders, Tibetan Bhuddist monks and nuns.
  I am very supportive of this resolution today and I think this 
resolution sends an important message of disapproval of the Government 
of China's deplorable behavior toward its own citizens.

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