(Minghui.org) On the 25th anniversary since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to suppress Falun Gong in July 1999, practitioners from 44 countries recently submitted a new list of perpetrators to their respective governments, asking their governments to bar the perpetrators and their family members from entry and to freeze their overseas assets according to the law.
These 44 countries include:
* The Five Eyes Alliance, namely, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand; and* All 27 countries in the European Union, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Austria, Denmark, Romania, Czechia (the Czech Republic), Finland, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus, and Malta; and* 12 countries in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Israel, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and the Dominican Republic. (The submission in France will occur after the transition between the old and new governments. The name list in Argentina will be submitted after certain legal procedures are determined.)
The list of names will be submitted after the transition between the old and new governments of Portugal and Argentina.
Every perpetrator on the latest list has participated in the persecution of Falun Gong in China and all information on the criminal activities of these perpetrators was compiled based on reports from the Minghui website. U.S. State Department officials remarked several years ago that information provided by Falun Gong practitioners in the past was solid and credible, and the presentation of which serves as a template for other organizations. The annual human rights reports and annual reports on international religious freedom published by the U.S. government have cited statistics directly from Minghui.org (such as the number of deaths due to the persecution as well as the number of practitioners who were sentenced and detained), along with information about individual cases.
Similar to previous submitted lists, the new perpetrators’ list includes CCP officials at various levels of government and from a number of professions across regions who have played a variety of roles in the suppression. The following are several examples:
* Chen Wenqing (陈文清): secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, former deputy director of the Office of the Central National Security Commission in charge of daily work; former secretary of the Party Committee and minister of the Ministry of National Security, member of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission.
* Wang Xiaohong (王小洪): minister of Public Security; CCP secretary of the Public Security Ministry; deputy secretary of the CCP Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission and China’s chief police inspector; former deputy minister of Public Security in charge of day-to-day operations, inspector general, and member of the CCP Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission; deputy mayor and director of the Public Security Bureau of Beijing; former deputy governor of Henan Provincial Government; director of the Henan Provincial Public Security Department and deputy secretary of the CCP Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Henan Province; former director and CCP Committee secretary of Xiamen Municipal Public Security Bureau; deputy director and CCP Committee member of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Department.
* Chen Yixin (陈一新): minister of State Security of the CCP; deputy director of the Office of the Central Commission for the Comprehensive Law-based Governance of the Country; former member and secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission; former deputy secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee; secretary of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee; director of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee; and first secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan Garrison District
* Huang Ming (黄明): former deputy chairman of the Constitution and Law Committee; former member of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission and director of the Central 610 Office; former deputy minister and Party Committee member of the Ministry of Public Security
* Ying Yong (应勇): member of the 20th CCP Central Committee; the procurator-general and CCP secretary of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate; member of the CCP Central Political and Legal Affairs; grand chief procurator; former deputy secretary of the CCP Committee of China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (ministerial level); deputy procurator general; member of the Procuratorial Committee and First-level grand procurator; CCP secretary of Hubei Provincial Committee
* He Rong (贺荣, female): Party secretary and minister of the Ministry of Justice of the Communist Party of China (CCP); member of the Central Commission for Comprehensive Law-based Governance and deputy director of the Office; former deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Supreme People’s Court; vice president in charge of daily work (ministerial level), and member of the Judicial Committee
* Wang Wentao (王文涛): secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Commerce of China; deputy secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee; governor and secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Provincial Government; deputy secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee
* Cheng Ningning (程宁宁, female): Full-time deputy secretary-general of the China Anti-Cult Association
* Xu Wenhai (徐文海): vice governor of Hubei Province; secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Provincial Public Security Department; chief inspector and first deputy secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee
* Zheng Qing (郑青, female): president of the Liaoning Provincial High Court
* Liu Changgen (刘长根): member of the Standing Committee of the Gansu Provincial Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission
* Zhong Yibing (钟艺兵): member of the CCP Leadership Group and deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Justice, secretary of the CCP Committee, and director of the Hunan Provincial Prison Administration Bureau
* Wang Liguo (王立国): former warden of Heilongjiang Women’s Prison, former secretary and director of Heilongjiang Compulsory Isolation Drug Rehabilitation Center
* Han Yanwei (韩延伟): warden of Heilongjiang Women’s Prison, former warden of Heilongjiang Huashan Prison
* Lu Xianyu (卢先钰): deputy general manager of Hunan Wan’anda Group Co. Ltd. (an enterprise owned by Hunan Prison Administration, i.e., an enterprise that produces prison slave labor products); 2nd-level researcher of Hunan Provincial Prison Administration; former secretary and director of Wangling Prison (You County, Zhuzhou City) in Hunan Province
* Yin Ling (殷灵): deputy director of the 11th Procuratorial Department of the Yunnan Provincial Procuratorate; former acting chief prosecutor and chief prosecutor of the Xishan District Procuratorate of Kunming City, Yunnan Province
*Ou Lingjun (欧灵军): prosecutor and deputy chief prosecutor of the Kunming Procuratorate, Yunnan Province; former acting chief prosecutor and chief prosecutor of the Xishan District Procuratorate, Kunming City, Yunnan Province
Twenty-five years have passed since the CCP began to suppress Falun Gong. More and more governments are aware of the persecution, and they are also clear on the fact that the CCP is a threat to humanity worldwide.
The day after the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue was held in Chongqing, China, in June, the EU issued a statement once again urging the CCP to stop persecuting human rights and to release illegally imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners.
In July this year, many elected officials in the United States, Canada, Germany, Sweden and other Western countries issued separate or joint statements to support Falun Gong practitioners in their fight against the persecution and condemned the CCP’s crimes in the persecution.
United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain said in June that the CCP has been persecuting various groups for decades, including Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners. “This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners,” he said.
In particular he mentioned Ms. Yuhua Zhang, a Falun Gong practitioner who attended the press conference. Ms. Zhang served several prison sentences and was tortured for her belief. Hussain praised Ms. Zhang for her efforts to try to rescue her husband who is still imprisoned in China. “All of us have the responsibility, starting with ourselves and starting with our families, to counter dehumanization and promote respect,” he said. “That is a critical goal that will lead us to the future that we seek in the long run. That’s the vision that gives us hope even as we continue the tireless work to help those who are facing oppression around the world.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said more efforts are needed to stop the brutalities in China. He reiterated that the U.S. government is clear on the CCP’s transnational repression and has been striving to solve these problems. He expressed his sympathy for Ms. Zhang and her husband’s ordeals and thanked them for their efforts to uphold freedom of belief.
According to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on July 24, a U.S. citizen in Florida who immigrated from China was recently charged with acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). If convicted, the man faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
A quarter of a century is a long time, but the human rights disasters continue. According to information received by Minghui, every month, practitioners are harassed, detained, tortured, and sentenced, with some losing their lives.
Any human rights violation that targets innocent Falun Gong practitioners is a criminal act. Those who have participated in this will be pursued and held accountable. The perpetrators should be advised not to take chances, since it is only a matter of time before they will be included on the lists of those sanctioned in democratic countries.
We hope Chinese officials keep this in mind and stop following the CCP’s policy of persecuting Falun Gong. If they don’t, they may lose opportunities for themselves and their family members to travel, study, conduct business, or settle in those countries. Those who have not participated in the persecution should avoid doing so, while those who have participated should make up for the losses they have caused to Falun Gong practitioners.
In this battle between good and evil, every individual’s conscience will be tested, and their choices will determine their future. The perpetrators, including individuals in law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, and detention facility guards, have the responsibility to protect and uphold justice for the innocent. However, under the directive of the 610 Office, they have been following the persecution policy to harm innocent Chinese citizens. When the day comes that the CCP is held accountable for its crimes against Falun Gong practitioners, they will be brought to justice.
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