S 5082 117th Congress Senate International Affairs

Sanction Xi Jinping for Xinjiang Atrocities Act

Introduced: November 14, 2022 Introduced by: Hawley, Josh Republican · Missouri See on congress.gov

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Sanction Xi Jinping for Xinjiang Atrocities Act

This bill directs the President to impose sanctions on the senior Chinese Communist Party officials who directed, oversaw, monitored, or were otherwise complicit in the perpetration of genocide and other crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 5082: Sanction Xi Jinping for Xinjiang Atrocities Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5082/

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"S. 5082: Sanction Xi Jinping for Xinjiang Atrocities Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5082/.

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