(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners in 36 countries recently presented their respective governments with an up-to-date list of perpetrators involved in the persecution of the spiritual practice in China. The lists were submitted around December 10, 2021, on International Human Rights Day. Practitioners asked their governments to bar the perpetrators and their family members from entering those countries and freeze their assets.

The 36 countries include the Five Eyes Alliance (the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand), 23 countries in the European Union (France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic, Romania, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, and Malta), and 8 additional countries (Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Israel, and Mexico).

Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since July 1999. The hostility and ill-treatment meted out include torturing practitioners resulting in death, continuous harassment, and government-sanctioned selling of their vital organs, which also results in death.

Practitioners outside China have previously submitted lists of perpetrators to various governments requesting that sanctions be imposed on the named human rights violators. The latest submission marks the first time that Estonia has participated in this effort.

Hu Daocai, President of the High Court of Henan Province, is on the list.

Perpetrator Information

Full Name of Perpetrator: Hu (last name) Daocai (first name) (胡道才)Gender: MaleCountry: ChinaDate/year of Birth: September 1962Place of Birth: Shuyang County, Jiangsu Province

Title or Position

January 2018 – Now: President and Party Secretary of the High Court of Henan ProvinceMay 2011 – January 2018: Acting President and President of the Intermediate Court of Nanjing City, Jiangsu ProvinceDecember 2007 – May 2011: Vice President of Jiangsu High People’s CourtDecember 2002 – December 2007: Acting President and President of the Intermediate Court of Xuzhou City, Jiangsu ProvinceAugust 2000 – December 2002: Vice President of the Intermediate Court of Suqian City, Jiangsu ProvinceDecember 1997 – August 2000: President of Shuyang County Court, Jiangsu Province

Main Crime

Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, Hu Daocai has held important positions in the court system and directly participated in the persecution. Especially after he was appointed as the Party secretary and president of the Henan High Court in January 2018, he was the commander-in-chief of the persecution of Falun Gong in the Henan Province court system. He repeatedly slandered Falun Gong in his speeches and asked the court staff members at all levels to “severely crack down on the cult.”

During his tenure from January 2018 to June 2021, 208 Falun Gong practitioners in Henan Province were sentenced, including 70 from January to June 2021 alone, which makes Henan Province one of the worst areas in the persecution of Falun Gong. Among these practitioners, Mr. Zheng Jiajin, an 81-year-old practitioner from Xinxiang City, was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Since Hu took the office of the Henan High Court in 2018, at least three practitioners in Henan Province, including Mr. Guo Baojun, Mr. Bai Guoxian, and Mr. Feng Zhongxian, died as a result of the persecution. Many practitioners were tortured to be injured, disabled, or mentally disordered. Some had their families fall apart.

Below are select deaths and sentencing cases due to the persecution.

1. Mr. Guo Baojun Dies in Custody after Nearly 1.5 Years in Detention

Mr. Guo Baojun, of Zhengzhou City, was sentenced to two years in prison on November 10, 2019, after he was arrested for distributing materials about Falun Gong. After nearly 1.5 years of detention, a guard of Zhengzhou No. 3 Detention Center texted his family member on the early morning of March 14, 2021, that he had passed away.

The guard ordered the family to acknowledge in formal writing that they didn’t have an objection to the cause of Mr. Guo’s death, which the detention center claimed to be a natural death. The family refused to comply. The detention center did not allow them to see Mr. Guo’s body.

2. 80-year-old Man Sentenced to Eight Years Dies Less Than Two Years After Being Released on Medical Parole

Mr. Bai Guoxian, of Xinyang City, Henan Province, died on April 19, 2021, less than two years after he was released on medical parole from serving an 8-year term for practicing Falun Gong. He was 80 years old.

Mr. Bai was arrested on March 16, 2017, after the police tracked him and five other local practitioners in distributing Falun Gong materials. The Yicheng District Court of Zhumadian sentenced the six practitioners to 2 to 8.5 years. Mr. Bai was sentenced to 8 years and fined 26,000 yuan.

After nearly a year of being imprisoned at Zhengzhou Prison, Mr. Bai began to experience high blood pressure and difficulty breathing in the second half of 2019. He was released on medical parole and died less than two years later.

3. 41 Falun Gong practitioners were illegally sentenced in Nanyang City Court to up to 13 years in prison. Feng Zhongxian was tortured to death.

In early April 2019, under the order from the Nanyang Political and Legal Affairs Committee, the 610 Office, and the Public Security Bureau of Henan Province, the police in Nanyang organized a massive arrest of all the local Falun Gong practitioners and started monitoring them.

In July, the police began to visit the practitioners at home, asked for their household registrations and ID cards, and took photos of their family members. On the afternoon of August 29, all the officers involved in the planned arrest were called in and assigned specific tasks. They had to turn in their cellphone and were not allowed to contact other people before the arrests at 10 p.m. Over 160 practitioners were arrested between August 29 and 31, 2019, including retired directors, elementary school teachers, dentists, and engineers. About 130 practitioners’ homes were ransacked.

Mr. Feng Zhongxian was arrested on August 30, 2019. He was handcuffed overnight at the police station and released the next day due to his poor health condition. He died 3 months after returning home. He was 70.

On August 11, 2020, the Wancheng District Court of Nanyang City held a trial of 27 practitioners. The judge appointed lawyers to enter guilty pleas for the practitioners. The judge sentenced them to up to 13 years on December 30, 2020, with a total fine of nearly half a million yuan.

Seventeen practitioners were ordered to serve time in prison:

Zhao Peiyuan was sentenced to 13 years with a 50,000-yuan fine.Wang Wei was sentenced to 9 years with a 40,000-yuan fine.Pan Dongxing was sentenced to 8 years with a 30,000-yuan fine.Lai Guimin was sentenced to 7 years and 8 months with a 30,000-yuan fine.Sun Tongren was sentenced to 7 years with a 40,000-yuan fine.Wang Xiaobi was sentenced to 7 years with a 30,000-yuan fine.Liang Zhaofang was sentenced to 4.5 years with a 30,000-yuan fine.Wen Jianhua was sentenced to 4 years with a 20,000-yuan fine.Tan Bo was sentenced to 4 years with a 20,000-yuan fine.Li Jierong was sentenced to 3 years with a 20,000-yuan fine.Chen Tao was sentenced to 3 years with a 20,000-yuan fine.Li Xiaoling was sentenced to 2 years with a 20,000-yuan fine.Dong Ju’an was sentenced to 2 years with a 10,000-yuan fine.Wang Yinglin was sentenced to 1 year and 10 months with a 10,000-yuan fine.Wang Qin was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months with 10,000 yuan fine.Wang Jingrui (Wang Wei’s sister) was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months with a 10,000-yuan fine.Wang Lianfeng was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months with a 10,000-yuan fine.

Nine practitioners were sentenced but given probation. They don’t have to serve the specified sentences in prison unless the probation conditions are violated during the specified probation periods.

Yang Fengdong was sentenced to 3 years with 5 years probation and a 20,000-yuan fine.Ge Fengzhi was sentenced to 3 years with 4 years probation and a 20,000-yuan fine.Wang Zhiqing was sentenced to 3 years with 4 years probation and a 20,000-yuan fine.Fang Baojun was sentenced to 3 years with 3 years probation and a 20,000-yuan fine.Liu Yuanzhen was sentenced to 2 years with 2 years probation and a 5,000-yuan fine.Song Henglin (husband of Wang Lianfeng) was sentenced to 1 year with 1.5 years probation and a 5,000-yuan fine.Qin Zhiwei was sentenced to 10 months with 1-year probation and a 3,000-yuan fine.Liu Huixia was sentenced to 7 months with 1-year probation and a 3,000-yuan fine.Diao Gaichun was sentenced to 7 months with 1-year probation and a 3,000-yuan fine.

The verdict of Liu Tianyu isn’t clear.

In March 2021, 14 Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced by various district courts of Nanyang City, with up to 9 years in prison and fines of 190,000 yuan in total, including:

He Ximei was sentenced to 9 years.Cao Ailan was sentenced to 8 years.Wang Tiezhuang was sentenced to 7 years.Tie Linfeng (He Ximei’s husband) was sentenced to 4 years.Han Lanying (nearly 80 years old) was sentenced to 4 years.Li Meiyu was sentenced to 4 years.Zhang Yulian was sentenced to 3 years and 5 months.Yuan Xifeng was sentenced to 3 years.Kui Yingxiang (male, over 80) was sentenced to 3 years.Zhang Xibin (male, 80 years old) was sentenced to 3 years.Yuan Daling was sentenced to a three-year probation.Jia Jingan was sentenced to a three-year probation.Liu Furong was sentenced to a three-year probation.Wei Jie was sentenced to a two-year probation.