Sec. 4. Protection of foreign journalists and media personnel globally
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It is the policy of the United States to consider foreign government officials responsible for, complicit in, or having directly or indirectly engaged in serious restrictions of the internationally-recognized right to the freedom of expression, among these arbitrary detention, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, fines, extrajudicial killing, and other substantial threats to the life and liberty of a person, as having committed— gross violations of internationally recognized human rights for purposes of imposing sanctions with respect to such officials under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2656 note); and gross violations of human rights for purposes of imposing sanctions with respect to such officials under section 7031(c) of division F of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 ( Public Law 116–6 ; 133 Stat. 319; 8 U.S.C. 1182 note).
The Secretary of State, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, to the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts, shall— provide assistance to foreign journalists and media personnel who are victims of severe restrictions on the internationally-recognized right to the freedom of expression and to their families, including assistance to pay for legal and other related expenses; and support training for foreign journalists and media personnel globally, including training to expand the internationally-recognized right to the freedom of expression and defend the civil and political freedoms found in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out this subsection may be referred to as the Global Press Freedom Defense Fund .
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Protection of foreign journalists and media personnel globally
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