The California Assembly adopted a resolution May 20 denouncing the Chinese government’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs, a persecuted religious and ethnic minority. Assemblyman Chad Mayes (I-Yucca Valley) authored House Resolution 41 (HR 41), which demands “that the People’s Republic of China should release the estimated 2,000,000 imprisoned Uyghurs and grant access to foreign press and the United Nations to the detention camps in Xinjiang.” Mayes told the Assembly he had heard about the poor treatment of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region of China “but did not understand the human impact at the time.” Then, two years ago, he met someone whose story brought their struggle from the news into his life. “The nightmare Uyghur Americans face is one you cannot wake up from. Cut off from their families back home, relatives and neighbors vanish into the darkness of Chinese government-run reeducation camps,” he said. “International reports confirm the horror …