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"[We] call upon you to advocate for the rights of prisoners of conscience, as your predecessors have done," said the letter signed by Representatives Frank Wolf (R-Va.), James P. McGovern (D-Mass.), Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Karen Bass (D-Calif.).
Wolf and McGovern are the co-chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, Smith is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, and Bass is a ranking member of the subcommittee.
They urged Obama to raise the cases of the China 16 by name and the letter suggested that the Congressional leaders expected Obama to respond and indicate his "readiness to call for the release of the China 16."
The full PDF text of the letter is available here.
Please see our report about the coalition's China 16 initiative here.
