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【大纪元4月29日讯】大纪元亚特兰大报道/2003年4月22日晚九点， 美国乔治亚州众议院的164名代表全票通过了624号决议案。
该项决议强烈谴责了江泽民集团迫害法轮功、践踏人权的行径，并敦促美国国务院营救被关押在中国劳教所的周雪菲女士。周雪菲女士是乔治亚州居民吕朝晖的妻子， 因为修炼法轮功仰被关押在广东省山水妇女劳教所已经达２年之久。此决议案由乔治亚州第40区的共和党代表温德‧威勒先生发起，经由众议院规则委员会主席–乔治亚州第111区的民主党代表卡尔文‧斯米瑞先生推出， 得到了众议院两党代表的广泛支持。
值此SARS瘟疫事件蔓延世界、江泽民以“种群灭绝罪”被告上美国法庭之际， 乔治亚州政府议会推出此决议案，不仅表示了州政府对受迫害法轮功学员的同情与支持，也反应了美 国基层政府对江泽民集团欺世谎言和暴政给中国和世界带来的 灾难予以更多的认识和警觉。
亚特兰大CBS电视台和(亚特兰大宪法报)现场采访了当地的法轮功学员，报导了此条消息。
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624决议案全文内容:
House Resolution 624
Urging the United States Department of State to seek the release of Xuefei Zhou, the wife of a Georgia resident, imprisoned by the Chinese government for the practice of Falun Gong; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS, on July 20, 1999, President Jiang Zemin of the People’s Republic of China officially banned the practice of Falun Gong in China and initiated a brutal persecution campaign that has included the murder of hundreds of practitioners and the imprisonment and torture of tens of thousands during the past two years; and
WHEREAS, Falun Gong practitioners value Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and seek to incorporate these principles into their lives to improve their mind, body, and spirit; and
WHEREAS, United States citizens and permanent resident aliens have been subjected to arbitrary detention, imprisonment, and torture in the People’s Republic of China and the U.S. Congress unanimously passed House Concurrent Resolution 188 urging the release of practitioners and calling for investigation by the United States government; and
WHEREAS, Xuefei Zhou, the wife of Sam Lu of Smyrna, Georgia, is among the detained practitioners and has been tortured in a Chinese labor camp for more than two years; and
WHEREAS, the brutal oppression of peaceful practitioners of Falun Gong is a blatant violation of human rights and appropriate action by the United States government is urged.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body urge the United States Department of State to seek the release of Xuefei Zhou, imprisoned by the Chinese government for the practice of Falun Gong and to appropriately address this blatant violation of human rights.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit appropriate copies of this resolution to the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives and each member of the Georgia congressional delegation and to the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.(http://www.dajiyuan.com)
