To counter the mass arbitrary detention of Turkic Muslims, including Uighurs, within the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.

United States115th CongressHR-7384House of Representatives
Updated: Dec 20, 2018

Summary

Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act of 2018 or the UIGHUR Act of 2018 This bill restricts executive agencies from procuring goods and services from foreign persons involved in China's mass detention of the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnic group in Xinjiang province. It also places export controls on various technologies used to facilitate the mass detentions.

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  1. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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