Washington – The Chamber adopted the Uighur Politics Act on Tuesday, a bill that advances a strategy for the United States to support Uighours and other sustainable ethnic minorities in persecution in the hands of the Chinese government.
This is the last test for the measure, which was adopted by the Chamber in the last two terms of the Congress without advancing further.
Sponsored by a bipartite group led by representative Young Kim, a Republican of California, and the representative friend Bera, a Democrat in California, the measure calls on the State Department to supervise human rights policies and programs
The Uighur people have been imprisoned, tortured and washed with brain in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
I spoke on the ground of the house in favor of my Uighur political act – so that we can show through words and actions that we oppose to the heinous crimes of the PCC. pic.twitter.com/qu3jhwutic
– Young Kim (@repyoungkim) September 2, 2025
The bill aims to increase the responsibility of human rights organizations and establishes a strategy to close detention facilities and political rehabilitation camps in China. He also creates report mechanisms for Uighuri victims.
“For too long, the Chinese Communist Party orchestrated sterilization, slavery and forced systematic murder of the Uighur people,” Kim said in a statement. “The United States cannot remain their arms crossed because innocent families are torn, identities are erased and the generations reduced to silence by these acts of atrocious genocide.”
Rushan Abbas, executive director of the campaign for Uighurs and president of the Executive Committee of the Uighur World Congress, said that the measure was a “vital stage to ensure that America is firmly standing with Uighur people in the middle of the continuous genocide of China”.
“By making Uighur Human Rights a clear priority in the United States’s foreign policy, this bill strengthens the responsibility for the Chinese government’s crimes and transmits a powerful message of solidarity to millions of Uïghre families suffering from repression,” she said.