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[PUBLIC LAW 116–145—JUNE 17, 2020
UYGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY ACT OF 2020]
SEC. 6. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than annually thereafter, the President shall submit a report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives that identifies each foreign person, including any official of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, that the President determines is responsible for any of the following with respect to Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, members of other Muslim minority groups, or other persons in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region:...
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1) Section 6 of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (UHRPA), like similarly structured country-specific sanctions statutes such as the Nicaragua Human Rights and Anticorruption Act of 2018, requires/authorizes the president to impose sanctions on certain persons determined to meet the designation criteria set out in the statute. The sanctions, where applicable, are standard IEEPA-based sanctions (the “President shall exercise all of the powers granted to the President under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act…to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in property and interests in property of a foreign person identified…”)
As of 3-26-24, there is only one person (an individual) sanctioned pursuant to the UHRPA, and that individual is also sanctioned pursuant to EO 13818 (and 583.201 of the...