Sec. 2. Findings; Sense of Congress
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Congress finds the following: The President is required under section 2001 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (22 U.S.C. 1732) to demand the release of any citizen who has been unjustly deprived of his liberty by or under the authority of any foreign government, and to undertake appropriate means to obtain the release of such citizen. In a statement submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate on July 27, 2011, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that [t]he State Department has no greater responsibility than the protection of U.S. citizens overseas—particularly when Americans find themselves in the custody of a foreign government, facing an unfamiliar, and at times unfair, legal system. .
Some United States citizens in the custody of a foreign government have been and continue to be denied fundamental due process and human rights under both local and international law by foreign government officials. Mr. Jacob Ostreicher, who was detained in the notorious Palmasola prison in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, from June 4, 2011, until December 18, 2012, and was subsequently placed under house arrest, is one of the United States citizens who currently is enduring multiple, egregious, and continuous violations of his fundamental due process and human rights under both local and international law.
It is the sense of Congress that foreign government officials responsible for violations of fundamental due process and human rights of United States citizens in the custody of a foreign government, as well as immediate family members of such officials, should not have the privilege of traveling to the United States while such violations are occurring.
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