The CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong is ‘a crime of genocide and a crime against humanity.’
A U.S.-based nonprofit has submitted a list of more than 81,000 human rights violators to the FBI, among them Chinese doctors and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), which has been investigating the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong adherents in China since the organization’s establishment in 2003,
announced on April 27 that it had submitted the list to the FBI, calling on the agency to take lawful actions. The list named 81,340 individuals who allegedly have been involved in persecuting adherents of the spiritual practice.
“FBI officials have expressed their interest in the list and stated their intention to put the individuals who are proven guilty on their no-entry list into the United States and take necessary actions,” the nonprofit said in a statement.
The list includes 9,011 individuals “suspected of involvement” in the Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting, a number of whom are affiliated with Chinese hospitals and medical institutions.
Another 52,063 individuals on the list had been investigated by WOIPFG for their alleged involvement in “planning and executing illegal arrests, detentions, and tortures of Falun Gong practitioners.”
Falun Gong practitioners have been facing persecution in China since 1999, the year then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin started a brutal campaign to eradicate the practice. Before the start of the persecution, the practice, also known as
Falun Dafa, was popular in the country, with about 70 million adherents, according to official estimates at the time.
Millions of Falun Gong practitioners have
been detained inside prisons, labor camps, and other facilities, and hundreds of thousands have been tortured while incarcerated, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center. Many have been killed, some to supply organs for the communist regime’s lucrative transplantation industry.
In 2019, the
China Tribunal, an independent people’s tribunal in London, concluded that the CCP had been forcibly harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience for years “on a substantial scale,” with Falun Gong practitioners being the “principal source” of human organs.
“Our recent submission to the FBI aims to enhance society’s comprehensive efforts in uncovering evidence of this persecution, providing evidence for the persecutors to be brought to justice,” the nonprofit said.
‘Genocide’
Wang Zhiyuan, president of WOIPFG, told The Epoch Times in a statement that the CCP’s persecution of the practice is “a crime of genocide and a crime against humanity.”“WOIPFG will continue to investigate the criminal conduct of all institutions, organizations, and individuals involved in the persecution of Falun Gong,” Mr. Wang said.
Also on the list were 9,109 people from the CCP’s “610 Office” and 11,157 people affiliated with the Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC), a Party organ that oversees China’s judicial and security matters.
Jiang set up the
610 Office—named for its founding date of June 10, 1999—for the sole purpose of carrying out his orders to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The office would function in a manner akin to Nazi Germany’s Gestapo, with powers overriding China’s courts and police.
Internal documents obtained by The Epoch Times show that while the 610 Office
was officially disbanded between 2018 and 2019, its functions were merged into other CCP organs, including the PLAC and the Ministry of Public Security.
In 2019, U.S. Falun Gong practitioners
submitted a list of people who had committed human rights abuses, urging the State Department to deny those individuals entry to the United States.
On April 25, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), chair and co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, respectively, issued a
statement calling on China to “end its quarter-century-long persecution of Falun Gong.”
The day marked the 25th anniversary of a peaceful protest held by about 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners from all over China outside the CCP’s leadership compound in Beijing, to appeal for their right to freely practice their belief.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Merkley issued an earlier statement, on April 23, calling on Beijing to release
Zhou Deyong, whose wife and son now live in Florida.
“[Zhou Deyong] was unjustly detained 3 years ago as part of a crackdown on [Falun Gong] and is serving a harsh eight-year prison sentence,” they
wrote on social media platform X. “The Chairs demand Zhou’s unconditional release along with all others jailed in the [communist regime’s] nearly quarter-century-long repression of Falun Gong.”
Eva Fu contributed to this report.
