Sec. 4. Sanctions for human rights violations in Vietnam

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It is the policy of the United States to regularly assess reporting from intelligence, diplomatic, open source, congressional, and nongovernmental organization sources to identify and impose travel and financial restrictions on officials of the Government of Vietnam and other foreign persons working directly or indirectly for the Government of Vietnam who, based on credible evidence— are— responsible for, ordered, or are complicit in the arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances of individuals in Vietnam seeking to obtain, exercise, defend, or promote internationally recognized human rights; or responsible for, ordered, or are complicit in acts of significant corruption, including the expropriation of private or public assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, bribery, or the facilitation or transfer of the proceeds of corruption to foreign jurisdictions; are responsible for surveillance, censorship, or detention of individuals in Vietnam for exercising the right to the freedom of expression online or those responsible for forcing United States companies to censor or reveal personally identifiable information of any individual exercising this right; or are responsible for particularly severe violations of religious freedom (as such term is defined in section 3 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6402 )).

The President should impose sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) with respect to any person described in subsection (a)(1). The Secretary of State should impose sanctions described in section 7031(c)(1)(A) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2019 (division F of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019; Public Law 116–6 ) with respect to any person described in subsection (a)(2).

The Secretary of State should impose the sanctions described in section 212(a)(2)(G) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)(G) ) to any foreign person described in subsection (a)(3). The Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on sanctions imposed on persons described in subsection

(a)under the provisions of law described in subsection (b), including information on— the number of times sanctions were imposed on such persons under such provisions of law; the reasons for imposing such sanctions; and where appropriate, an identification of the sanctioned persons. The report required by this subsection shall be submitted as part of the report required by section of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 ( Public Law 107–228 ; 22 U.S.C. 2151n note).

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