Sec. 3. Imposition of sanctions with respect to persons responsible for the death of Jamal Khashoggi
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On and after the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, all persons named in the qualifying report shall be subject to the same sanctions as a person included on the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury. The President may, on a case-by-case basis, waive for a period of not more than 90 days the imposition of sanctions under subsection
(a)with respect to a person if the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees— a written determination that the waiver is vital to the national security interests of the United States; a detailed explanation of how the waiver is vital to those interests; and a certification that the Government of Saudi Arabia is making significant progress toward meeting the following criteria: The Government of Saudi Arabia has brought to justice officials of the Government of Saudi Arabia and members of the royal family of Saudi Arabia named in the qualifying report. The Government of Saudi Arabia is not detaining, charging, or imposing travel bans on citizens or legal residents of the United States or any other third country for political reasons, including criticism of policies of that Government, peaceful advocacy of political beliefs, or the pursuit of United States citizenship. The Government of Saudi Arabia is cooperating in outstanding criminal proceedings in the United States in which a citizen or national of Saudi Arabia departed from the United States while the citizen or national was awaiting trial or sentencing for a criminal offense committed in the United States. The Government of Saudi Arabia is not detaining, charging, or imposing travel bans on citizens of Saudi Arabia, including civil society activists, journalists, bloggers, lawyers, or religious figures, for political reasons, including criticism of policies of that Government or peaceful advocacy of political beliefs. The Government of Saudi Arabia has disbanded any units of its intelligence or security apparatus dedicated to the forced repatriation of dissidents or critical voices in other countries. The Government of Saudi Arabia has made meaningful commitments to a multilateral framework on the lawful use, sale, and transfer of digital surveillance items and services that can be used to abuse human rights. The Government of Saudi Arabia has instituted meaningful legal reforms to protect the rights of freedom of expression, religion, and due process, and women’s rights, in its judicial system. A waiver issued under paragraph
(1)with respect to an individual may be renewed, on a case-by-case basis, if the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees, with respect to each such waiver, the determination, explanation, and certification required under paragraph (1). In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives. The term qualifying report means the report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence entitled Assessing the Saudi Government’s Role in the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi , dated February 11, 2021, and declassified by Director of National Intelligence Avril D. Haines on February 25, 2021.