Sec. 5. Application of Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act
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It is the sense of Congress that the President should consider imposing sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 ( Public Law 114–328 ; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note)) against senior regional officials in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region responsible for facilitating the mass arbitrary detention of Turkic Muslims within such region, until such time as such senior regional officials cease to participate in such activities.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall release a public statement, to be made available prominently on the website of the White House or an appropriate Federal agency, regarding any sanctions against senior regional officials in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. In the event sanctions have not been imposed against senior regional officials in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region by the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall transmit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and make available to the public a report detailing the deliberations underlying the determinations of the President to not impose such sanctions.
Any report required under paragraph
(1)shall be transmitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex.
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