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House Foreign Affairs hearing spotlights bills on Americans detained in China, Belarus sanctions and USCIRF reauthorization
Summary
Members urged legislation and oversight to help Americans detained abroad, reauthorize the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and renew Belarus-targeted measures; lawmakers pressed for stronger diplomatic and enforcement tools.
Representative Chris Smith urged the House Foreign Affairs Committee to back legislation aimed at helping Americans he said have been unjustly detained in the People’s Republic of China and to reauthorize measures pressing Belarus to free political prisoners.
Smith told the committee he has proposed a bill to press the executive branch to develop a coordinated strategy to assist U.S. citizens detained in China. He described "well over 200 to 300" Americans he says have been accused or detained and…
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