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 104 STAT. 80 PUBLIC LAW 101-246—FEB. 16, 1990 (3) ending efforts to expel Israel from international organizations or denying participation in the activities of such organizations. Human rights TITLE IX—PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA SEC. 901. FINDINGS AND STATEMENTS OF POLICY. (a) FINDINGS.— The Congress finds that— (1) on June 4, 1989, the Government of the People's Republic of China ordered an unprovoked, brutal, and indiscriminate assault on thousands of peaceful and unarmed demonstrators and onlookers in and around Tiananmen Square by units of the People's Liberation Army, which resulted in at least 1,000 deaths and several thousand injuries; (2) the Chinese Government has executed dozens of individuals who participated in prodemocracy demonstrations or who protested the brutal military assault against peaceful demonstrators; (3) the Government of the People's Republic of China is engaging in widespread mass arrests in the aftermath of the June 4, 1989, military assault in Tiananmen Square, which have resulted in the arrests of thousands of students, workers, and other civilians so far; ^ (4) independent international human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and Asia Watch, have documented daily incidences of arbitrary arrests, torture, and beatings by police and military forces in the People's Republic of China; (5) the Chinese Government has established telephone hotlines and other local communications networks for the express purpose of identifying and imprisoning prodemocracy supporters and political dissidents throughout the country; (6) officials of the Chinese Government have grossly distorted the Government's actions to suppress the prodemocracy movement, including the clandestine disposal of the bodies of demonstrators without informing their families, and have consistently denied that the massacre in and around Tiananmen Square took place or that abuses of human rights have occurred; (7) in an effort to conceal the truth about the Chinese Government's brutal suppression of the prodemocracy movement, foreign journalists have been expelled and Voice of America broadcasts are being jammed; Fang Lizhi. (8) in view of the widespread and continuing repression, noted LiShuxian. Chinese intellectuals and advocates of peaceful democratic reform. Fang Lizhi and Li Shuxian, sought refuge at the United States Embassy in Beijing on June 3, 1989, and the United States exercised its prerogatives under longstanding practices of diplomatic missions by granting them refuge; and (9) the President has condemned the actions of the leaders of the People's Republic of China against participants in the prodemocracy movement in China and has taken several concrete steps to respond to the repression of the movement, including—

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