(Minghui.org) Before Human Rights Day, December 10, 2024, Falun Gong practitioners in 45 countries submitted to individual governments another list of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials who have persecuted Falun Gong and practitioners. Because these officials participated in this persecution, practitioners requested that they, along with their family members, be barred from entry and that their assets be frozen.
These 45 countries include The Five Eyes (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand), all 27 countries in the European Union (EU) and 13 countries on other continents. The EU countries are Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Austria, Denmark, Romania, Czechia, Finland, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus, and Malta. The remaining 13 countries are located in Asia, Europe, and the Americas: Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Israel, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and Paraguay. This was the first time Paraguay has joined the list.
The CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong has continued for 25 years and the regime recently escalated its control overseas. According to a report published by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), the CCP highlighted a goal in a May 2024 meeting organized by the Ministry of Public Security, “Pay special attention to the cooperation between Falun Gong and Western politicians to sanction high-level Chinese leaders. Stop such behavior at all costs.”
Among the perpetrators listed was Wang Guanghui, Party secretary and chief prosecutor of Yunnan Provincial Procuratorate.
Perpetrator Information
Full Name of Perpetrator: Wang (last name) Guanghui (first name)Chinese Name: 王光辉Gender: MaleDate/year of Birth: November 1967Place of Birth: Yuexi, Anhui Province
Title or Position
August 2018 – January 2019: member of the Party Leadership Group and director of the Political Department of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate; director of the Office of the Leading Group for Judicial System Reform
January 2019 – February 2019: Party secretary and acting chief prosecutor of Yunnan Provincial Procuratorate
February 2019 – Present: Party secretary and chief prosecutor of Yunnan Provincial Procuratorate
Main Crimes
Since the CCP began to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999, the Yunnan Provincial Procuratorate system has served as a tool for the CCP and indicted many practitioners.
After Wang Guanghui was appointed as the Party secretary, acting chief prosecutor, and chief prosecutor of Yunnan Provincial Procuratorate in January 2019, he instructed the Yunnan Provincial Procuratorate to “strengthen the fight against cults.” He directed and ordered his subordinates to prosecute Falun Gong practitioners, resulting in many practitioners being sentenced.
From 2019 to 2023, at least 123 practitioners were sentenced in Yunnan Province, including 36 in 2019, 35 in 2020, 10 in 2021, 26 in 2022, and 16 in 2023. These practitioners came from all walks of life, including doctors, professors, engineers, teachers, and company executives. In particular, 35 (31%) of them were 65 or older, including 82-year-old Ms. Gao Qiongxian and 88-year-old Ms. Qu Yuexian.
Three practitioners, Ms. Ding Guiying, Mr. Peng Yunkui, and Ms. Han Junyi, passed away after serving time in prison.
Select Death Cases
Case 1: 76-year-old Woman Suddenly Dies While Serving Time
Ms. Ding Guiying’s family was dealt a heavy blow when the Yunnan Province No. 2 Women’s Prison suddenly informed them in mid-January 2021 that she had just passed away. Before that, Ms. Ding’s family didn’t even know she had been sentenced for upholding her faith in Falun Gong. The prison cremated her body only days later. She was 76 years old.
Ms. Ding, a Kunming City, Yunnan Province, resident, was arrested at home on August 28, 2019. Because the Kunming City Detention Center had been barring Ms. Ding’s family from visiting her, and the authorities never updated them about her case status, they still thought she was in the detention center and often went to the Domestic Security Division to demand her release.
A Yunnan Province No. 2 Women’s Prison guard informed them that Ms. Ding suddenly suffered “an acute disease” on January 14 and died at 8:53 a.m. on January 15. The prison had her cremated on January 19 without much explanation about her condition. Since Ms. Ding had been perfectly healthy before her arrest, her family suspected that she might have died from the abuse in custody, not due to a disease, as the prison claimed.
Only after Ms. Ding had passed away did her family receive her verdict. She was sentenced to four years by the Wuhua District Court on July 10, 2020.
Case 2: 72-year-old Woman Dies One Year After Prison Release
Ms. Peng Yunkui struggled with declining health after she finished serving time for practicing Falun Gong in September 2021. She passed away a year later at the age of 72.
Ms. Peng of Wenshan City, Yunnan Province, was arrested on May 13, 2020, while visiting another practitioner. Although the police released her shortly after, they ordered her to repor to the police station whenever she was summoned. The police also tracked down Ms. Peng’s daughter in Kunming (the capital city of Yunnan, about 200 miles from Wenshan) and went there to harass the younger woman.
Ms. Peng was arrested again on September 15, 2020, for talking to people about Falun Gong. After six months in the Wenshan City Detention Center, she was taken to the Yunnan Province Second Women’s Prison. It’s not clear for how long she was sentenced and if a trial ever took place.
When Ms. Peng was released on September 15, 2021, she was skin and bones and was unable to eat. Unable to recover from the damage to her health, she passed away on September 17, 2022.
Select Sentencing Cases
Case 1: Ms. Gao Huixian Sentenced to Seven Years for Handing Out a Calendar
Ms. Gao Huixian, a 56-year-old Kunming resident, was arrested on December 7, 2018, after being reported for giving out a calendar with information about Falun Gong. The Xishan District Procuratorate approved her arrest on December 20, 2018. She appeared in the Xishan District Court on October 22, 2019, and was sentenced to seven years on November 19, 2019.
Case 2: Ms. Bai Haiying Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison
Ms. Bai Haiying was arrested at work on September 24, 2019. The police searched her bag and found eight Falun Gong booklets. While ransacking her home, they confiscated 109 Falun Gong books and 167 booklets.
Her arrest was approved on November 1, and the police submitted her case to the Xishan District Procuratorate on December 27, 2019. The police later revealed that two women went to a local bread shop on September 4 and left a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party there. The shop owner reported the women to the police, who suspected that one of them was Ms. Bai.
When prosecutor Du Qiongxian met with Ms. Bai in the detention center, she slipped in a statement pleading guilty with other files and ordered Ms. Bai to sign them before reading them.
During her first online hearing on August 14, 2020, Ms. Bai revealed how the prosecutor had deceived her into signing the statement. She said she wouldn’t acknowledge the statement and pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutor Du threatened her that she would get a heavier sentence if she pleaded not guilty, but Ms. Bai insisted that she was innocent.
The Xishan Court held two more hearings for her, on September 30 and November 21. Her lawyer and a family member entered not guilty pleas for her. They argued that Ms. Bai didn’t violate any laws by practicing her faith, and there was no legal basis for the persecution.
Judge Du Zhuxin sentenced Ms. Bai to 3.5 years with a 3,000-yuan fine.
Case 3: Ms. Tang Yu and Ms. Li Haiyan Sentenced to Prison
Two Kunming City, Yunnan Province residents were sentenced to prison on June 22, 2022, for their faith in Falun Gong. Ms. Tang Yu, 52, was sentenced to three years and eight months with an 8,000-yuan fine. Ms. Li Haiyan, 64, was given three years and three months with a 6,000-yuan fine.
Ms. Tang and Ms. Li were arrested on January 18 and March 5, 2022, respectively. To arrest Ms. Li, the police cut off her power and broke in when her family opened the door to see what had happened. Her Falun Gong books were confiscated.
Because Ms. Li’s daughter took photos of the police and asked them if they had a search warrant, the police also arrested her, claiming she was “obstructing law enforcement” and confiscated her cellphone.
The Xishan District Procuratorate indicted Ms. Tang and Ms. Li on December 28, 2021, accusing them of distributing informational materials about Falun Gong and “undermining law enforcement with a cult organization,” the standard pretext used to criminalize Falun Gong.
Both women were tried in the Xishan District Court on June 21, 2022. No prosecution witness appeared in court to accept cross examination, nor did the prosecutor exhibit any prosecution evidence. The judge announced the verdicts a day later.
Case 4: 82-year-old Woman and 60-year-old Woman Sentenced to Prison
Ms. Gao Qiongxian, 82, and Ms. Wang Jin, 60, were arrested around October 27, 2020, by officers from the Anning City Domestic Security Office. Ms. Wang was detained, and Ms. Gao was released on 1,000-yuan bail due to her poor health. Both were indicted by the Xishan District Procuratorate in the same month.
The Xishan District Court tried Ms. Gao and Ms. Wang separately on April 19, 2022. Ms. Gao was charged with practicing Falun Gong, distributing Falun Gong materials, and having the materials at home. As she was still in the probation period from an earlier 2017 term, the judge sentenced her to six years in prison and fined her 13,000 yuan.
Ms. Wang was also charged with distributing Falun Gong materials. The computer, printer, cellphone, and Falun Gong materials confiscated from her were all used as prosecution evidence. She was sentenced to three years with a 5,000 yuan fine.
Case 5: Blinded from Torture, Ms. Yang Xiaoming Sentenced to Seven Years
Ms. Yang Xiaoming, 54, of Kunming City, Yunnan Province, had an eye disease, constant fever, and rheumatoid arthritis when she was young. She only completed elementary school. After taking up Falun Gong in 1995, by reading the books and doing the exercises, she recovered her eyesight completely and could even read the small annotations in a dictionary.
Because she refused to give up her faith after the persecution started, she was forced to have an abortion, and her husband divorced her out of fear of the communist regime’s retaliation. She was given two forced labor camp terms between 2001 and 2008, totaling 5 years. Her eyes were injured from the beatings, and she became completely blind in 2012.
Ms. Yang was arrested again on May 28, 2022. The police attempted to deceive her into opening her door by claiming to be from property management and needing to check if her pipes were leaking. When Ms. Yang refused to open up, the police broke in and handcuffed her.
She was forced to have a physical exam at the hospital, during which a doctor opened her shirt and pants to examine her. He ran a scanning device over her body up and down as the male police officers watched. She was humiliated.
Although Ms. Yang was denied admission due to her poor health and released on bail, the police still submitted her case to the procuratorate. She was taken to the court for a hearing on February 1, 2023. A judge went to her home on March 14, 2023, to deliver the verdict of a seven-year sentence with a 20,000-yuan fine.
Case 6: Two Yunnan Women Given Lengthy Prison Terms for Speaking Up for Their Persecuted Faith
Ms. Liao Wenxian, 62, of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, was arrested on April 21, 2022, after a surveillance camera recorded her distributing Falun Gong materials. Ms. Fang Shimei, 57, who was with her, escaped but was arrested later in the day. The police raided their homes and confiscated their Falun Gong books, informational materials, computers, and printers.
Both women were held in the Xichou County Detention Center. Their families confirmed in November 2023 that Ms. Fang has been sentenced to ten years and Ms. Liao to seven years.
Case 7: Four Yunnan Residents, Including an 83-Year-Old Woman, Sentenced to Prison
Ms. Wan Jiayu, 82, Ms. Zhang Hongying, 57, and Ms. Na Shengqiong, 70, were arrested at Ms. Wan’s home in Kaiyuan City, Yunnan Province, on November 1, 2023. The police confiscated Ms. Wan’s computer, as well as Falun Gong books and other valuables. Ms. Zhang and Ms. Na’s homes were also raided with their meditation mats, cards with Falun Gong messages printed on them, and other personal belongings were seized.
Ms. Jiang Changde, 59, was arrested at her own home at 10 a.m. on January 23, 2024.
Prosecutor Li Jun of the Jianshui County Procuratorate indicted all four practitioners on April 4, 2024. They stood trial together in the Jianshui County Court on April 27, 2024, and were convicted on July 3, 2024. Ms. Wan was sentenced to three years and fined 5,000 yuan. Ms. Zhang was given one and a half years with a 2,500-yuan fine. Both Ms. Na and Ms. Jiang were given one year with a 1,500-yuan fine.
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