Combatting the Persecution of Religious Groups in China Act

The bill establishes U.S. policy to hold Chinese officials accountable for religious freedom abuses—such as arbitrary detention, forced sterilization, torture, and forced labor—against religious minorities including Protestants, Catholics, Buddhists, Muslims, and Falun Gong practitioners, by treating such abuses as gross violations of human rights eligible for sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act. It directs the Department of State to support international religious freedom efforts in China and monitor transnational repression of religious groups. Additionally, it expresses Congress’s sense that the U.S. should designate China as a “country of particular concern” for religious freedom,…

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