EU, UK, US and Canada join forces to sanction the Chinese Communist Party
On the 22nd, the European Union announced a travel ban and asset freeze on four Chinese Communist Party officials and one entity. The officials are Chen Mingguo, head of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau, Zhu Hailun, former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Wang Mingshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee, and Wang Junzheng, political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and chairman of China New Construction Group Corporation; the sanctioned entity is the Public Security Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
The EU condemned the CCP’s mass detentions, particularly in the Xinjiang region.
Subsequently, the United States also announced sanctions against Wang Junzheng, political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and chairman of China Xinjian Group Corporation, and Chen Mingguo, head of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.
Then the European Union and British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced sanctions against the Chinese Communist Party for human rights violations against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. This is the first Time since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre that the UK and EU have sanctioned the Chinese Communist Party. At almost the same time, Canada also announced sanctions against Chinese Communist Party officials.
Back in July of last year, the Trump administration announced sanctions against the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau and four CCP officials: Chen Quanguo, Secretary of the Xinjiang Party Committee; Zhu Hailun, former Deputy Secretary of the Xinjiang Party Committee; Wang Mingshan, Director and Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau; and Huo Liujun, former Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.
Chen Mingguo, who was sanctioned for the first time
Chen Mingguo, who was sanctioned for the first time, became the director of the Xinjiang Public Security Department on January 19 of this year.
Chen Mingguo, 55, has served in the Sichuan judicial system for 30 years. He has served as director of the Office of the Internal Affairs and Justice Committee of the Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress; director of the Research Office, member of the Judicial Committee, vice president and member of the party group of the Sichuan Provincial High Court.
From April 2012, he served successively as deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and executive deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee; from January 2015 to January 2018, he served as director and party secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Justice and first political commissar of the Provincial Prison Administration; from January 2018 to December 2020, he served as president of the Qinghai Provincial High Court.
During Chen Mingguo’s tenure as Director and Party Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Justice, he was listed by the overseas “International Organization for the Pursuit of Falun Gong” (Tracing International) as a suspect in the judicial-administrative system (courts, judicial bureaus, judicial departments, and inspectorates) for actively following the persecution of Falun Gong by former Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin’s group. In addition, the overseas Minghui website has repeatedly named Falun Gong as one of the most important crimes.
In addition, the overseas Minghui website has repeatedly named Chen Mingguo as having unshirkable responsibility for the local persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Minghui.org reported on August 12, 2016, that since late July of that year, Falun Gong practitioners illegally detained in Sichuan’s Jiazhou Prison and Chengdu Women’s Prison have been completely banned from meeting with their families. The prison authorities told the families that they had been given documentation that they could not meet between the end of July and August 20, saying that so-called “experts” were forcibly converting Falun Gong practitioners. The families feared that their loved ones would be subjected to more severe persecution and abuse in a closed environment completely isolated from the outside world.
The Jiazhou Prison in Leshan and the Chengdu Women’s Prison in Longquan have long been black holes for the Sichuan authorities to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The prison houses the illegal “610” organization, which specializes in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
Reports indicate that the torture used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners at Jiazhou Prison and Chengdu Women’s Prison includes: verbal abuse, beatings, prolonged military stance, prolonged standing in military stance, sleep deprivation (only one to two hours of sleep per day), undressing in winter, exposure to the sun in summer, electric baton shocks, tear gas, forced feeding, restraining belts, restraining clothes, restraining chairs, restraining beds, confinement punishment, starvation punishment (called “eating seconds of rice”, eating time is limited to 20 seconds, how much can be eaten in 20 seconds time? It also requires sitting cross-legged on the floor, make a strong effort to lower the head, like an animal eating general swallowing, just eat without dignity) …… many fancy ways of torture is simply unimaginable, moreover, a few words can not be summarized.
By August of that year, at least 15 Falun Gong practitioners had been persecuted to death at Jiazhou Prison. At least eight Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted to death in Chengdu Women’s Prison.
Those involved and responsible for the cases mentioned in the report include the Sichuan Judicial Department and its director Chen Mingguo.
Wang Junzheng, a political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and chairman of the board of directors of China New Construction Group Corporation, was also included on the sanctions list for the first time.
Wang Junzheng, 58, has held key positions in Yunnan, Hubei and Jilin, and served as secretary of the Changchun Municipal Party Committee for three years, and is an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In his early years, Wang served in Yunnan for a long time. He has served as deputy secretary and secretary of the General Office of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Kunming Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Guandu District Party Committee, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and Minister of Organization, deputy secretary of the Kunming Municipal Party Committee and minister of the Propaganda Department, vice president of the Yunnan High Court, mayor of Lijiang and secretary of the Municipal Party Committee.
In September 2012, Wang Junzheng was transferred to the vice governor of Hubei Province and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Xiangyang Municipal Party Committee until 2013. in early 2016, Wang Junzheng was transferred to the Standing Committee of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Changchun Municipal Party Committee.
Since January 2019, Wang Junzheng has served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang Party Committee, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee and Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and Chairman of China New Construction Group Corporation.
On August 19, 2020, Minghui.com reported that the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Xinjiang remains severe, with Falun Gong practitioners in concentration camps illegally imprisoned for nearly three years without release, and that in July, propaganda posters defaming Dafa appeared in various neighborhoods in Urumqi, and communities began converting Falun Gong practitioners in their districts, requiring them to write the so-called “three books.
Wang Junzheng, then secretary of the Xinjiang Political and Legal Committee, and Wang Mingshan, deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, were both named.
In addition, on October 20, 2018, Tracing International issued a notice entitled “Tracing Order – Traced Person Gao Jun – 2018 (No. 0022). Among them, Wang Junzheng, secretary of the Changchun Municipal Party Committee, was included as one of the persons responsible for the case.
Wang Mingshan sanctioned for the first time
Wang Mingshan, 57, has worked in Xinjiang’s public security and law system for 35 years since 1986. He has served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Urumqi Municipal Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Public Security Bureau, Director, Deputy Director and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee; Deputy Secretary General of the Xinjiang Party Committee, Executive Deputy Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Vice President of the Xinjiang Law Society (also); Director and Inspector General of the Xinjiang Public Security Department; Deputy Secretary of the Xinjiang Political and Legal Committee (also), Director and Inspector General of the Public Security Department, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Public Security Department.
In September 2020, Wang Mingshan succeeded Wang Junzheng as Secretary of the Xinjiang Political and Legal Committee.
On May 26, 2014, Tracing International issued a notice to trace those responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners Sheng Kezhi and Chen Xiulan’s Family in Urumqi, Xinjiang, stating that since July 1999, the Urumqi public, prosecution, law, justice and “610 ” system has carried out mass extermination persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, illegal arrests, detentions, torture and abuse, court trials, and sentencing without charge, resulting in numerous Falun Gong practitioners being injured, disabled, and killed.
Wang Mingshan, then director of the Urumqi Public Security Bureau, was the main unit and person responsible for the cases involved.
Minghui.org reported on December 11, 2020, that beginning in October of that year, Wang Mingshan, secretary of the Xinjiang Political and Legal Committee, used the same methods he used to suppress the Uighur community during his time at the Public Security Bureau, and began to harass all Falun Gong practitioners in Xinjiang by forcing them to write and sign the “Three Books. The persecution was carried out through the evil method of pressuring Falun Gong practitioners’ units, family members, children, and their units and schools at all levels.
According to the report, Falun Gong practitioners in Xinjiang have been harassed in a carpet-like manner, and are required by their communities and management committees to write the so-called “Three Books” or else they will be threatened with jobs, children’s Education, and employment.
Falun Gong practitioners in Xinjiang’s Urumqi New Urban Area are intensively harassed, some are placed under house arrest at Home and brainwashed in turn by door-to-door personnel, some are sent to brainwashing classes, and some are threatened to be sent to “study classes” if they do not write the “three books”. Some were sent to brainwashing classes and threatened with being sent to “study classes” (concentration camps) for long periods of illegal detention.
Zhu Hailun, Former Secretary of Xinjiang’s Political and Legal Committee
Zhu Hailun, now 63, worked in Xinjiang for 46 years. He has served as secretary of the Xinjiang Kashgar Municipal Party Committee; secretary of the Xinjiang Hotan Local Party Committee; member of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang Party Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Committee; secretary of the Urumqi Municipal Party Committee, first secretary of the Party Committee and first political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (Agricultural) Twelfth Division; deputy secretary of the Xinjiang Party Committee, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, secretary of the Netizen Party Work Committee; from January 2019 to February 2021, he served as deputy secretary of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang People’s Congress and deputy director of the party group.
During his three-year tenure as secretary of the Xinjiang Political and Legal Committee (from October 2006 to September 2009), Zhu Hailun vigorously implemented the so-called “aggravating and accelerating the processing of illegal sentences of Falun Dafa disciples” and ran around Xinjiang. Wang Lequan and Zhu Hailun ordered the relevant departments throughout Xinjiang to intensify and speed up the crackdown on the so-called “three forces,” while behind the scenes they increased the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Before Transferring to Xinjiang, Chen Guanguo Was Directly Involved in the Persecution of Falun Gong
In August 2016, Chen Quanguo was transferred to the position of Party Secretary of the Xinjiang District of the Communist Party of China. Prior to that, Chen Quanguo was directly involved in the persecution of Falun Gong.
The Wall Street Journal reported that after the CCP crackdown on Falun Gong in 1999, “Chen Quanguo, then a senior official in Henan Province, participated in the crackdown and was responsible for destroying Falun Gong ‘propaganda’ books, books and CDs.”
From January 2010 to August 2011, Chen Guanguo served as governor of Hebei Province. During this period, several Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted to death, including: in February 2010, Wu Zhijin, a teacher at the second kindergarten in Sanhe City, Hebei Province, was persecuted to death; in September 2010, Hu Lianhua, a teacher at the elementary school in General Han Village, Xiaoying Township, Yanshan County, Hebei Province, was abducted and persecuted to death around October of that year ……
Since Chen Guo’s reign, Xinjiang has gradually turned into a large prison, and Falun Gong practitioners have suffered unprecedented persecution. Almost all Falun Gong practitioners in Xinjiang were either illegally imprisoned, restricted in their personal freedom, or forced to wander outside. Some have been tortured, and even the elderly have not been spared.
A tight surveillance network has been set up in Xinjiang under Chen’s rule, with a large number of cameras and face scanners installed. In 2017, shortly after Chen took office, Xinjiang spent $9.1 billion on “stability maintenance,” a 92 percent increase from 2016, according to data.
Minghui.org reports that in early 2017, after Chen took office, the Xinjiang Political and Legal Committee issued a secret order to carry out a major arrest of Falun Gong practitioners. At that time, all Falun Gong practitioners who said they “practiced” were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
Even Falun Gong practitioners who had lived and worked outside of Xinjiang for many years and had only their household registration in Xinjiang were arrested across provinces and imprisoned back in Xinjiang.
According to the public, before the 19th National Congress in 2017, Xinjiang authorities issued two secret documents in a row and launched a “door-knocking operation” to arrest Falun Gong practitioners.
The source said that since November 2017, the Xinjiang region has been sending down secret documents almost every day, with no copies or filing allowed and handing them in afterwards. The secret files have been sent down to the village level, demanding a comprehensive crackdown and high pressure, comprehensive stability maintenance, and prevention and control, with Falun Gong as one of the key prevention targets.
In fact, Chen Quanguo has been implementing red terror since he came to power in Xinjiang.
As of October 2020, many Falun Gong practitioners in Xinjiang who do not renounce their faith have been abused, sentenced, reeducated through labor, kidnapped, imprisoned, raided, harassed, and persecuted for brainwashing by the CCP. According to incomplete statistics from information on the Minghui website, at least 49 Falun Gong practitioners in the Xinjiang region have passed away during the CCP’s brutal persecution.
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