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22 U.S.C. § 6432 — Prisoner lists and issue briefs on religious freedom concerns
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**(a) Sense of Congress** To encourage involvement with religious freedom concerns at every possible opportunity and by all appropriate representatives of the United States Government, it is the sense of the Congress that officials of the executive branch of Government should promote increased advocacy on such issues during meetings between foreign dignitaries and executive branch officials or Members of Congress.
**(b) Prisoner lists and issue briefs on religious freedom concerns** The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Ambassador at Large, the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, United States chiefs of mission abroad, regional experts, and nongovernmental human rights and religious groups, shall prepare and maintain issue briefs on religious freedom, on a country-by-country basis, consisting of lists of persons believed to be imprisoned, detained, or placed under house arrest for their religious activities, religious freedom advocacy, or efforts to protect and advance the universally recognized right to the freedom of religion, together with brief evaluations and critiques of the policies of the respective country restricting religious freedom. In considering the inclusion of names of prisoners on such lists, the Secretary of State shall exercise appropriate discretion, including concerns regarding the safety, security, and benefit to such prisoners.
**(c) Availability of information** The Secretary shall make available religious freedom issue briefs under subsection (b) to executive branch officials and Members of Congress in anticipation of bilateral contacts with foreign leaders, both in the United States and abroad.
**(d) Victims list maintained by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom**
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**(a) Sense of Congress** To encourage involvement with religious freedom concerns at every possible opportunity and by all appropriate representatives of the United States Government, it is the sense of the Congress that officials of the executive branch of Government should promote increased advocacy on such issues during meetings between foreign dignitaries and executive branch officials or Members of Congress.
**(b) Prisoner lists and issue briefs on religious freedom concerns** The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Ambassador at Large, the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, United States chiefs of mission abroad, regional experts, and nongovernmental human rights and religious groups, shall prepare and maintain issue briefs on religious freedom, on a country-by-country basis, consisting of lists of persons believed to be imprisoned, detained, or placed under house arrest for their religious activities, religious freedom advocacy, or efforts to protect and advance the universally recognized right to the freedom of religion, together with brief evaluations and critiques of the policies of the respective country restricting religious freedom. In considering the inclusion of names of prisoners on such lists, the Secretary of State shall exercise appropriate discretion, including concerns regarding the safety, security, and benefit to such prisoners.
**(c) Availability of information** The Secretary shall make available religious freedom issue briefs under subsection (b) to executive branch officials and Members of Congress in anticipation of bilateral contacts with foreign leaders, both in the United States and abroad.
**(d) Victims list maintained by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom**
(1) **In general** — The Commission shall make publicly available, to the extent practicable, online and in official publications, lists of persons it determines are imprisoned or detained, have disappeared, been placed under house arrest, been tortured, or subjected to forced renunciations of faith for their religious activity or religious freedom advocacy by the government of a foreign country that the Commission recommends for designation as a country of particular concern for religious freedom under [section 6442(b)(1)(A)(ii) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6442/b/1/A/ii&num=0&edition=prelim) or by a non-state actor that the Commission recommends for designation as an entity of particular concern for religious freedom under [section 6442a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6442a&num=0&edition=prelim) and include as much publicly available information as practicable on the conditions and circumstances of such persons.
(2) **Discretion** — In compiling lists under paragraph (1), the Commission shall exercise all appropriate discretion, including consideration of the safety and security of, and benefit to, the persons who may be included on the lists and the families of such persons.
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**(a) Response to violations of religious freedom**
(1) **In general**
(A) *United States policy* — It shall be the policy of the United States—
(i) to oppose violations of religious freedom that are or have been engaged in or tolerated by the governments of foreign countries; and
(ii) to promote the right to freedom of religion in those countries through the actions described in subsection (b).
(B) *Requirement of Presidential action* — For each foreign country the government of which engages in or tolerates violations of religious freedom, the President shall oppose such violations and promote the right to freedom of religion in that country through the actions described in subsection (b).
(2) **Basis of actions** — Each action taken under paragraph (1)(B) shall be based upon information regarding violations of religious freedom, as described in the latest Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the Annual Report and Executive Summary, and on any other evidence available, and shall take into account any findings or recommendations by the Commission with respect to the foreign country.
**(b) Presidential actions**
(1) **In general** — Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the President, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Ambassador at Large, the Special Adviser, and the Commission, shall, as expeditiously as practicable in response to the violations described in subsection (a) by the government of a foreign country—
(A) take one or more of the actions described in paragraphs (1) through (15) of [section 6445(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6445/a&num=0&edition=prelim) (or commensurate action in substitution thereto) with respect to such country; or
(B) negotiate and en
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**(a) In general** Not later than May 1 of each year, the Commission shall submit a report to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress setting forth its recommendations for United States policy options based on its evaluations under [section 6432 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6432&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Classified form of report** The report may be submitted in classified form, together with a public summary of recommendations, if the classification of information would further the purposes of this chapter.
**(c) Individual or dissenting views** Each member of the Commission may include the individual or dissenting views of the member.
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Appropriate congressional committees** — The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives;
(C) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(D) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
(2) **Commission** — The term “Commission” means the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom established under [section 6431 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6431&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Commissioner** — The term “Commissioner” means a member of the Commission.
(4) **Vice Chair** — The term “Vice Chair” means the Vice Chair of the Commission who was appointed to such position by an elected official from the political party that is different from the political party of the elected official who appointed the Chair of the Commission.
**(b) Strategic policy and organizational review planning process** Not later than 60 days after October 16, 2015, and not less frequently than biennially thereafter, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Commission, in coordination with the Commissioners, the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Commission staff, and others jointly selected by the Chair and Vice Chair, shall carry out a strategic policy and organizational review planning process that includes—
(1) a review of the duties set forth in [section 6432 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6432&num=0&edition=prelim) and the powers set forth in [section 6432a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-titl
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**(a) Cooperation with nongovernmental organizations, the Department of State, and Congress** The Commission shall seek to effectively and freely cooperate with all entities engaged in the promotion of religious freedom abroad, governmental and nongovernmental, in the performance of the Commission’s duties under this subchapter.
**(b) Conflict of interest and antinepotism**
(1) **Member affiliations** — Except as provided in paragraph (3), in order to ensure the independence and integrity of the Commission, the Commission may not compensate any nongovernmental agency, project, or person related to or affiliated with any member of the Commission, whether in that member’s direct employ or not. Staff employed by the Commission may not serve in the employ of any nongovernmental agency, project, or person related to or affiliated with any member of the Commission while employed by the Commission.
(2) **Staff compensation** — Staff of the Commission may not receive compensation from any other source for work performed in carrying out the duties of the Commission while employed by the Commission.
(3) **Exception**
(A) *In general* — Subject to subparagraph (B), paragraph (1) shall not apply to payments made for items such as conference fees or the purchase of periodicals or other similar expenses, if such payments would not cause the aggregate value paid to any agency, project, or person for a fiscal year to exceed $250.
(B) *Limitation* — Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), the Commission shall not give special preference to any agency, project, or person related to or affiliated with any member of the Commission.
(4) **Definitions** — In this subsection, the term “affiliated” means the relationship between a member of the Commission and—
(A) an individual who hol
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
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concerning the mode of travel, lodging and per diem ex-
penditures, reimbursement payments, and expense re-
porting and documentation requirements.’’
2002—Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 107–228, § 681(b), added par.
(2).
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 107–228, § 681(c), substituted ‘‘after
May 30 of each’’ for ‘‘in each calendar’’.
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 107–228, § 681(d), inserted at end
‘‘A member may serve after the expiration of that
member’s term until a successor has taken office. Any
member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before
the expiration of the term for which the member’s
predecessor was appointed shall be appointed only for
the remainder of that term.’’
1999—Pub. L. 106–55, § 1(a)(2), which directed amend-
ment of section by inserting after first sentence ‘‘The
term of each member of the Commission appointed to
the first two-year term of the Commission shall be con-
sidered to have begun on May 15, 1999, and shall end on
May 14, 2001, regardless of the date of appointment to
the Commission. The term of each member of the Com-
mission appointed to the second two-year term of the
Commission shall begin on May 15, 2001, and shall end
on May 14, 2003, regardless of the date of appointment
to the Commission. In the case in which a vacancy in
the membership of the Commission is filled during a
two-year term of the Commission, such membership on
the Commission shall terminate at the end of that two-
year term of the Commission.’’, was executed by mak-
ing the insertion after the first sentence of subsec.
(c)(1) to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
Subsec. (b)(1)(B)(iii). Pub. L. 106–55, § 2(b), substituted
‘‘Three’’ for ‘‘three’’.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–55, § 1(a)(1), designated exist
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