; Whereas to protest censorship and harsh zero-COVID policy, mass protests in November 2022 spurred the largest mass demonstrations in China since 1989; Whereas these protests were in part spurred by the actions of Peng Lifa, also called “Bridgeman,” who unfurled two banners over the Sitong Bridge in Beijing which read “We don’t want Covid Tests, we want food. We don’t want Cultural Revolution, we want reform. We don’t want lockdowns, we want freedom. We don’t want an autocrat, we want votes. We don’t want lies, we want dignity. We are citizens, not slaves.”; Whereas Li Kangmeng, a university student, was reportedly the first person to hold up a blank sheet of white paper to highlight pervasive censorship in China, inspiring others to adopt this symbol as a form of protest—giving a name to the 2022 protests as the “White Paper Movement”; Whereas Peng Lifa and Li Kangmeng remain in some from of detention, despite being nominated by Members of the Congress for the Nobel Peace Prize; Whereas an unknown amount of other people engaged in protest remain detained or disappeared, including university student Kamile Wayit, who was sentenced for “extremism” because she posted protest video on the Chinese social media platform WeChat; Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China continues to commit gross violations of international-recognized human rights—through the arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of pro-democracy activists, members of ethnic groups, religious believers, human rights lawyers, citizen journalists, and labor union leaders, among many others seeking to express their political or religious views or ethnic identity in a peaceful manner; Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China is responsible for genocide and crimes against humanity being committed against the Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region