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That the House of Representatives— reaffirms the commitment of the United States to promoting religious freedom in China and calls on the President and the Secretary of State to strengthen United States religious freedom diplomacy on behalf of Christians facing restrictions in China; calls on the President, the Secretary of State, and the United States Trade Representative to ensure that trade negotiations include religious freedom conditions as mandated by the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 ( 19 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.); encourages the President to use the authorities available under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6401 et seq.), the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2016 ( Public Law 114–281 ; 130 Stat. 1426), and the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) to address particularly severe religious freedom restrictions in China by holding Chinese officials accountable for their complicity in egregious violations of internationally recognized human rights; calls on the President, the Secretary of State, the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, and Members of Congress to leverage the growing network of foreign international religious freedom focused institutions and parliamentary groups; urges the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom to develop an action plan to creatively employ religious freedom programming; calls on the President and Secretary of State to raise cases relating to religious or political prisoners at the highest levels with Chinese officials, such as the case of Pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain Church, because experience demonstrates that consistently raising prisoner cases can result in improved treatment, reduced sentences, or in some cases, release from custody, detention, or imprisonment; encourages Members of Congress to adopt a prisoner of conscience in China through the Lantos Human Rights Commission’s Defending Freedom Project , raise the case with Chinese officials, and work publicly for their release; calls on the Chinese government to unconditionally release religious and political prisoners or, at the very least, ensure that detainees are treated humanely with access to family, the lawyer of their choice, independent medical care, and the ability to practice their faith while in detention; and encourages the global faith community to speak in solidarity with the persecuted Christians in China.
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