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Butchers of Tibetan Buddhists and of Falun Gong Practitioners Sanctioned by the U.S.

12/13/2022Massimo Introvigne |

Wu Yingjie, former CCP Secretary in Tibet, and Tang Yong, prison bureaucrat in Chongqing, are among those sanctioned.

by Massimo Introvigne

Falun Gong practitioners protesting in New York. From Twitter.
Falun Gong practitioners protesting in New York. From Twitter.

On the eve of Human Rights Day, December 10, the U.S. Department of State announced sanctions against five Chinese individuals responsible for gross human rights violations, perpetrated in particular against Tibetan Buddhists and Falun Gong practitioners. Those sanctioned are prohibited from entering the United States and their assets in the country, if any, are frozen.

Tang Yong is the former deputy director of the Chongqing Area Prisons. He has been sanctioned for violating human rights of Falun Gong practitioners, which of course, the Department of State says, is also a violation of freedom of religion. In 2020, the U.S. had already sanctioned Huang Yuanxiong, director of the Wucun Police Station of the Xiamen Municipal Public Security Bureau, and in 2021 Yu Hui, former director of the Anti-Xie-Jiao Office in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, for having seriously violated the human rights of Falun Gong practitioners.

This shows that, contrary to the Chinese narrative that depicts the protest on behalf of Falun Gong as the result of the political alliance between Donald Trump and the Falun Gong media that strongly support him, it does not really matter whether the U.S. administration is Democrat or Republican. When it comes to sanctioning human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners, both act against Chinese officials.

Sanctioned: Wu Yingjie, former CCP Secretary in Tibet.
Sanctioned: Wu Yingjie, former CCP Secretary in Tibet. Credits.

The infamous Wu Yingjie, who was CCP Secretary of Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) between 2016 and 2021, has also been sanctioned for “serious human rights abuse, including physical abuse and arbitrary arrests and detentions” against Tibetan Buddhists, including monks and nuns, which again also amount to gross violations of religious freedom. Together with Wu, Zhang Hongbo, director of the Tibetan Public Security Bureau (TPSB) since 2018, has also been sanctioned.

Finally, the U.S. has sanctioned Li Zhenyu and Zhuo Xinrong and a network of entities including Dalian Ocean Fishing Co., Ltd. and Pingtan Marine Enterprise, Ltd., and over 150 vessels for using slave labor.

Tagged With: Chinese Communist Party, Falun Gong, Human Rights, Tibetan Buddhism, United States of America

Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne

Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press’ Nova Religio.  From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the “Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions” of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.

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