Sec. 9. Protection of journalists and nongovernmental organizations
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It is the policy of the United States to— engage all appropriate instruments of United States influence to seek the release of United States citizens and aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States and personnel of United States-based nongovernmental organizations or journalistic enterprises, including Radio Free Asia, and family members thereof, detained by the People’s Republic of China as a result of journalistic, religious, academic, economic, or peaceful advocacy activities undertaken within or regarding the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China that would be lawful if undertaken in the United States; protest any inappropriate restrictions imposed upon United States persons serving as journalists or employees of nongovernmental organizations, journalists or employees affiliated with news publications or nongovernmental organizations based in the United States, or United States officials with respect to travel to or within the People’s Republic of China, including to or within the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region; and make relevant United States officials, including officials of the Department of State, reasonably available to such family members, publications, or organizations impacted by such detentions or restrictions within the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region for purposes of discussing the detention of or restrictions placed upon their respective family members, publications, or organizations by the People’s Republic of China and the efforts of the United States to address such detentions or restrictions.
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended— in paragraph
(12)of section 116(d) ( 22 U.S.C. 2151n(d) )— in subparagraph (B), by striking and at the end; in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: in countries in which United States persons serving as journalists or employees of nongovernmental organizations, or journalists or employees affiliated with news publications or nongovernmental organizations based in the United States, or family members thereof, have been detained, an assessment of— whether such detentions are likely intended to chill or otherwise restrict free speech or advocacy activities; and the extent to which the United States has taken or will take action to encourage an end to such detentions. ; and in section 502B ( 22 U.S.C. 2304 )— by redesignating the second subsection (i), (relating to child marriage, as added by section 1207(b)(2) of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 ( Public Law 113–4 )), as subsection (j); and in subsection
(i)(relating to the status of freedom of the press in certain countries)— in paragraph (2), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: in countries in which United States persons serving as journalists or employees of nongovernmental organizations, or journalists or employees affiliated with news publications or nongovernmental organizations based in the United States, or family members thereof, have been detained, an assessment of— whether such detentions are likely intended to chill or otherwise restrict free speech or advocacy activities; and the extent to which the United States has taken or will take action to encourage an end to such detentions. .
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