Bill Text: CA AR41 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to human rights of Uyghurs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 52-17-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-20 - Read. Adopted. (Page 1466.). [AR41 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AR41-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
House Resolution
No. 41
| Introduced by Assembly Member Mayes (Coauthors: Assembly Members Gabriel, Blanca Rubio, and Ward) |
April 27, 2021 |
Relative to human rights of Uyghurs.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
HR 41, as introduced, Mayes.
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Bill Text
WHEREAS, The Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, in cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, released a detailed report on the treatment of the Uyghur population by the Chinese government in response to emerging accounts of serious and systematic atrocities in the Xinjiang province; and
WHEREAS, Dozens of experts in international law, genocide studies, and Chinese ethnic policies were invited to examine all available evidence that could be collected and verified from public Chinese state communications, leaked Chinese state communications, eyewitness testimony, and open-source research methods, such as public satellite image analysis, and any other available source; and
WHEREAS, This report concludes that the People’s Republic of China breached the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; and
WHEREAS, In 2018, Xinjiang authorities began building a vast and more permanent infrastructure of detention compounds, including new facilities designed to be cavernous to prevent natural light and surrounded by concrete walls, guard towers, and heavy barbed wire. Researchers have verified over 380 detention sites across Xinjiang that were newly built or significantly expanded since 2017; and
WHEREAS, There are reports of mass death and deaths of prominent Uyghur leaders selectively sentenced to death by execution or by long-term imprisonment; and
WHEREAS, China has simultaneously pursued a dual systematic strategy of forcibly sterilizing Uyghur women of childbearing age and interning Uyghur men of childbearing years, preventing the regenerative capacity of the group and evincing an intent to biologically destroy the Uyghur population; and
WHEREAS, In a display of international solidarity, on March 22, 2021, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Canada jointly condemned Beijing’s human rights abuses and territorial aggression and levied sanctions on those individuals involved; and
WHEREAS, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the Chinese campaign against Uyghurs as crimes against humanity and genocide; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the People’s Republic of China should release the estimated 2,000,000 imprisoned Uyghurs and grant access to foreign press and the United Nations to the detention camps in Xinjiang; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
