Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Blacklist China’s Forensic Police Institute

A bicameral group of Republican lawmakers has proposed legislation to reinstate a Chinese forensic police institute on a trade sanctions list, accusing the agency of being involved in human rights violations perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The legislation, called the Confronting CCP Human Rights Abusers Act, was introduced on May 15. The Senate bill (S 1772) was led by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and cosponsored by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), while the House bill (HR 3461) was led by Reps. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) and John Moolenaar (R-Mich.). If enacted, the legislation would redesignate the CCP’s Ministry of Public Security’s Institute of Forensic Science (IFS) on the Commerce Department’s entity list. The first Trump administration placed the institute on the list in 2020 over alleged abuses against Uyghurs and other minority groups in China’s far-eastern region of Xinjiang....