Gallagher, Krishnamoorthi Statement on Passage of Uyghur Policy Act of 2023, Top Recommendation from Select Committee’s Uyghur Genocide Report

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the passage of H.R. 2766, the Uyghur Policy Act of 2023, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) today released the following statement.

“Less than a year after our Select Committee included the recommendation in our bipartisan report on ending the Uyghur genocide, we are glad to see the House take bipartisan action to address human rights atrocities committed by the CCP by passing the Uyghur Policy Act of 2023. At our Select Committee hearing on the CCP’s persecution of the Uyghur people last year, we heard firsthand accounts from witnesses about the CCP’s brutal and inhumane treatment of the Uyghur people and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Today, we are glad to see Congress take another step to hold the CCP accountable for its ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people.”

The bill comes following the Select Committee’s bipartisan report, titled, “The Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Uyghur Genocide: Policy Recommendations”, in which the Select Committee recommended passing the Uyghur Policy Act of 2023. The policy recommendation is one of several included in the report aimed at providing a blueprint for Congressional action to hold the perpetrators of the CCP’s genocide and crimes against humanity accountable.