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This bill requires the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security to add the Ministry of Public Security's Institute of Forensic Science of China to its entity list within 60 days of the bill's enactment. The entity list is a regulatory tool that restricts an organization's ability to receive exports from U.S. companies. The bill specifically targets this Chinese forensic science institute due to concerns about human rights abuses, particularly those related to the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The bill includes two potential aliases for the institute and provides a potential presidential waiver mechanism, where the President can avoid adding the institute to the entity list if they can certify that the organization is not engaging in activities contrary to U.S. foreign policy interests or contributing to human rights abuses. The bill is part of a broader effort to confront what the U.S. government perceives as significant human rights violations by the Chinese government, specifically targeting institutions that may be complicit in systemic repression, mass detention, forced labor, and high-technology surveillance of minority populations.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1772/all-info