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WASHINGTON, DC – Reps. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) and Jim McGovern (D-MA), Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, released the following statement following this week's release of Pakistani Prisoner of Conscience, Asia Bibi.
The tiny and sometimes troubled Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, must allow its electorate to "express themselves peacefully" during an election in the wake of pro-democracy uprisings, heads of a bipartisan congressional human rights commission have warned.
Every day, millions of Americans enjoy freedoms that are under attack in countries around the world. As we see more journalists and activists imprisoned and tortured, religious minorities persecuted and political dissidents suppressed every year, now is the moment for the United States to stand up for these human rights and democratic principles when they are threatened abroad.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Randy Hultgren (R-IL), Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, regret yesterday's decision by the Trump Administration to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Randy Hultgren (R-IL) and Jim McGovern (D-MA), Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, commend the release of Nguyen Van Dai in Vietnam. Dai was listed as a prisoner of conscience under the Commission's Defending Freedoms Project.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Randy Hultgren (R-IL) and James P. McGovern (D-MA), Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, addressed the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights on the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang province. The Co-Chairs' remarks were broadcast via video at the start of the subcommittee's "Exchange of Views on the Human Rights Situation in China, with a Special Focus on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" on May 15, 2018.