Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025 (UGASA)

(Pending in the Senate and the House)

The Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025 was introduced in the Senate by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), for himself and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), on July 31, 2025. 

The bill was introduced in the House by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), for himself, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NJ), and Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), on the same day.

Expansion of Global Magnitsky Sanctions

The bill amends the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 and urges the President to fully implement the Global Magnitsky sanctions required under the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020. The bill:

  • Expands the list of offenses to encompass systematic abuses such as rape, coercive abortion, forced sterilization, involuntary contraceptive implantation, human trafficking for organ removal, forced separation of children from parents, and forced deportation or refoulement.
  • Broadens the act to include offenses committed both inside and outside China.
  • Requires the President to identify and report foreign persons involved in providing significant goods, services, or technology to those engaged in the listed offenses.
  • Requires a report to Congress detailing these determinations.

Visa ban for perpetrators of forced sterilization and forced abortions

The bill amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, to enforce the prohibition of entry into the United States for individuals complicit in forced sterilizations, forced abortions, or other egregious population control policies.

Funding for medical and psychological care for refugees and diaspora members

The bill authorizes the Secretary of State:

  • To allocate funds to provide medical care, physical therapy, and psychological support to individuals who belong to oppressed ethnic groups in China, such as Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz, and those who have suffered atrocities like torture, forced sterilization, rape, forced labor, etc., and are residing outside of China. This includes funding of local capacity for care, including grants to treatment centers, research, and training to healthcare providers.
  • Requires a report to be submitted to the Senate and House committees detailing the assistance provided and projects initiated for such care.

Advocacy for unjustly detained relatives of U.S. citizens

  • Requires the State Department to maintain a list of family members of U.S. citizens and LPRs detained or missing in China, and to advocate for their release.

Determination on sanctions eligibility for certain on tech companies 

Within 60 days, the Secretary of the Treasury will make a determination and submit a report to Congress on whether the following entities meet the criteria for Global Magnitsky Sanctions, in line with the Uyghur Human Rights Sanctions Review Act of 2023 (S.585/H.R.1234).

  1. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology (Hikvision)
  2. Shenzhen Huada Gene Technology (BGI Group)
  3. China Electronics Technology Group
  4. Zhejiang Dahua Technology (Dahua)
  5. Tiandy Technologies
  6. Zhejiang Uniview Technologies
  7. Bytedance

Cultural destruction

The bill recognizes the Chinese government’s genocide in Xinjiang as an attempt to erase the cultural, religious, and linguistic heritage of oppressed ethnic groups, and

  • Urges the U.S. Government to utilize diplomatic, developmental, and cultural activities to safeguard the threatened cultural and linguistic heritages of these ethnic groups. 
  • Authorizes appropriations for a Repressed Cultures Preservation Initiative within the Smithsonian Institution.

Countering CCP genocide denial propaganda

  • Mandates the Secretary of State to devise a strategy to counter propaganda from Chinese-associated news sources denying or distorting the genocide and human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
  • Requires a report to Congress within 30 days of passage of the bill. 

Assistance for documentation

  • Grants authority to the Secretary of State  to provide necessary assistance to entities for documenting, collecting, and preserving evidence related to genocide and crimes against humanity.

Federal procurement ban on goods and services from entities that facilitate genocide

  • Prohibits executive agencies from entering into contracts for goods or services with individuals or entities identified in previous reports related to Uyghur human rights abuses, those involved in forced labor, or those determined to facilitate genocide or human rights abuses. The bill requires the President to submit a report on the implementation of this section to specific Senate and House committees

Strategy to end forced organ harvesting in the Uyghur Region

  • Requires the Secretary of State to create a strategy to deter and disrupt forced organ harvesting in the Uyghur Region, and submit a report to Congress within 90 days.
  • The report should make a determination whether forced organ harvesting has occurred in the Uyghur Region since 2017.
  • The report must include specific steps taken and authorities used, and detail diplomatic discussions with Member-States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on organ tourism to China by citizens of OIC countries. 

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