On his visit to Israel, Yang met with top Israeli officials including President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman late last week.
Among the protesters were dozens of Falun Gong practitioners and supporters of free Tibet. There were also 10 Chinese asylum seekers wearing dark sunglasses to disguise their identity. The asylum seekers called on the Chinese regime to stop the persecution against them and their family members in China.
“Two days after President Peres said in Yad Vashem ‘never again’, he is meeting with people who are responsible for inciting genocide,” said the protest organizers, referring to Peres’s speech regarding….
Exporting Dictatorship to the U.S.
Some of the human rights violations for which Yang is directly responsible have occurred on U.S. soil. During his tenure as Chinese ambassador to the U.S., Congress published a unanimous decision condemning the attempts by the Chinese regime to act against Falun Gong on U.S. soil.
“Whereas over the past 5 years China’s diplomatic corps has been actively involved in harassing and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the United States,” said U.S. Congress concurrent resolution 304, which was unanimously passed.
