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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 178 (EAH) — 116 S178 EAH: Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act of 2019 · Sec. 7

Sec. 7. Application of sanctions under Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act with respect to certain senior officials of the People’s Republic of China

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Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a list of senior officials of the Government of the People’s Republic of China who the President determines are responsible for or who have knowingly engaged in serious human rights abuses against Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and elsewhere in China. Such list shall include the following: Senior Chinese officials, such as Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Quanguo, who are directly responsible for the ongoing repression in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
Senior Chinese officials responsible for mass incarceration, political indoctrination, or reeducation efforts targeting Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities. The list required under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex. On the date on which the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees the list described in subsection (a), and as appropriate thereafter, the President shall impose the sanctions described in section 1263(b) of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of Public Law 114–328 ; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) with respect to any foreign person that the President has identified on the list. Subsections
(e)and
(f)of section 1263 of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act apply with respect to the imposition of sanctions under this section to the same extent as such subsections apply with respect to the imposition of sanctions under such section 1263. The President may waive the imposition of sanctions under subsection
(c)if the President— determines that such a waiver is in the national interests of the United States; and submits to the appropriate congressional committees notice of, and a justification for, the waiver. The President shall issue such regulations, licenses, and orders as are necessary to carry out this section. The authorities and requirements to impose sanctions authorized under this Act shall not include the authority or requirement to impose sanctions on the importation of goods. In this subsection, the term good means any article, natural or man-made substance, material, supply or manufactured product, including inspection and test equipment, and excluding technical data.
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