Whereas the Government of the Peoples Republic of China has engaged in widespread mass arrests in the aftermath of the June 4. 1989. military assault in Tiananmen Square. arresting thousands of students. workers. and others and executing scores of individuals. Whereas security forces of the Government of the Peoples Republic of China have repeatedly assaulted peaceful demonstrators in Tibet and have imprisoned thousands of Tibetans for the expression of their political and religious beliefs. Whereas freedom of emigration is currently being denied by the Peoples Republic of China to individuals supporting the prodemocracy movement. particularly to leaders of the movement who are currently residing in the United States and Australian Embassies in China. and to the citizens of Tibet. where martial law has been in effect since March of 1989. Whereas a subcommission of the United Nations Human Rights Commission has voted 15 to 9 to have the full Commission examine charges that the Peoples Republic of China brutally suppressed the prodemocracy movement in China in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. representing the first time that a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council has been censured in a United Nations forum for its human rights performance. and Whereas harassment and intimidation continues within the Peoples Republic of China and within Tibet. where surveillance. arrests. beatings. and torture have been documented by independent. international human rights organizations. and as well as in the United States. where harassment of Chinese students participating in the prodemocracy movement has been reported widely by leading United States press organizations: Now. therefore. be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring). That it is the sense of the Congress that(1) the situation in the Peoples Republic of China and in Tibet remains as grim today as it was when President Bush first imposed
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