Sens. Menendez, Rubio Issue Statements on Senate Passage of Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act
September 12, 2019
September 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sens. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued the following statements after the Senate unanimously approved their bipartisan Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act (S.178):
The bill was introduced to counter the totalitarian Chinese government's widespread and horrific human rights abuses in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, including the mass internment of over one million Uyghurs . . .
The bill was introduced to counter the totalitarian Chinese government's widespread and horrific human rights abuses in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, including the mass internment of over one million Uyghurs . . .