Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a bill on July 31 aimed at deterring the Chinese regime’s state-sanctioned killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs.
The Falun Gong Protection Act would make it U.S. policy to avoid cooperation with China in the organ transplantation field and compel Beijing to end “any state-sponsored organ harvesting campaign.”
Under the measure, the U.S. president would need to provide to relevant congressional committees a list of foreign persons deemed to have “knowingly and directly engaged in or facilitated the involuntary harvesting of organs within the People’s Republic of China.”
Those on the list would face sanctions barring them from entering the United States or engaging in U.S.-based transactions. Any current visas they hold would be invalidated. The bill also prescribes a civil penalty of up to $250,000 as well as a criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison for perpetrators….