; Whereas tanks crushed to death some protesters and onlookers and seriously injured many others; Whereas independent observers reported that hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed and wounded by People’s Liberation Army soldiers and other security forces in Beijing and other cities in China; Whereas tens of thousands were detained and sent to prison or reeducation through labor, often without trial and many were tortured and imprisoned for decades; Whereas the Tiananmen Mothers is a group of relatives and friends of those killed in June 1989 whose demands include the right to mourn victims publicly and who call for a full, public, and independent accounting of the wounded, dead, and those imprisoned for participating in the spring 1989 demonstrations; Whereas members of the Tiananmen Mothers group have faced arrest, harassment, and discrimination, with the group’s website blocked in China and the freezing by Chinese authorities of international cash donations made to the group to support families of victims; Whereas despite the Government of the People’s Republic of China’s integration into the international economic system and its obligations under international treaties and covenants, the political reforms and the protection of universally recognized rights sought by the Tiananmen demonstrators have not been realized during the past 30 years; Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China continues to actively suppress universally recognized rights by imprisoning or restricting the activities of pro-democracy activists, human rights lawyers, citizen journalists, labor union leaders, religious believers, members of ethnic minorities, and individuals in the Xinjiang and Tibetan regions, among many others who seek to express their political or religious views or their ethnic identity in a peaceful manner, including in Hong Kong where the Government of the People’s Republic of China has increasingly exerted influence, eroding freedoms there, and placing its special status at risk