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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Apr 28, 2005
Recognizes the ongoing abuse by the People's Republic of China of the most basic of human rights.
Urges the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to change the venue of the 2008 Olympic Games unless China makes significant progress to end human rights abuses, including by: (1) ending its one-child policy; (2) halting its persecution of North Korean refugees and releasing humanitarian workers that it has jailed; (3) discontinuing its intimidation of Taiwan's citizens; (4) making public the number of execution that are carried out each year; (5) halting the practice of parading prisoners through the streets prior to executing them; and (6) no longer holding public executions in stadiums filled with spectators.
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Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6] · R–CO
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Relations.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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