The Senate may move as soon as this week to advance a bill to sanction Chinese government officials responsible for forced labor camps in Xinjiang, where up to two million ethnic Muslims have been forcibly detained
, a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Wednesday, in the latest congressional move to strengthen the US stance toward China.
The legislation, which is still being finalized, condemns the Chinese Communist Party for the camps and recommends a tougher response to the human rights abuses suffered by Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in the region. The bill would also require the State Department to assemble a report on human rights violations in Xinjiang. The State Department currently details the abuses in its annual Human Rights and International Religious Freedom reports.
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