(Minghui.org) To commemorate the 70th anniversary of International Human Rights Day, the Canadian Falun Dafa Association was invited to a forum organized by the “Human Rights, Freedom and Tolerance” office of the Canadian government. The forum was held on December 12, 2018, and hosted by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland.
The “Human Rights, Freedom and Tolerance” forum hosted by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland (left)
The Canadian Falun Dafa Association submitted to the Minister of Foreign Affairs a 14-name list of Chinese Communist Party officials responsible for gross human rights abuses. These names included current and former officials, including Jiang Zemin, the former head of the communist regime who ordered the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. Detailed evidence of these individuals’ involvement in the persecution was also submitted.
A letter accompanying the list called on the Canadian government to sanction these human rights violators under Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, also known as the Magnitsky Act.
According to Peter Kent, MP and Chairman of Friends of Falun Gong, the human rights violations are getting worse in China and the world should use the Magnitsky Act more, as “the Act has been proven to be an effective tool to sanction those involved in human rights abuses.”
MP Kent said that a few years ago, he was still expecting the human rights condition under the Chinese Communist Party would improve, but “after so many years, we have seen the opposite situation. There are more and more events that were accurately recorded of serious human rights abuses.” He said it’s time for Canada to honestly, directly, and firmly stand up against the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations.
These 14 individuals under sanctions are:
Jiang Zemin (江泽民): former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Luo Gan (罗干): former Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC)
Liu Jing (刘京): former head of the 610 Office
Zhou Yongkang (周永康): former minister of Public Security and former Party Secretary of PLAC
Bo Xilai (薄熙来): former governor of Liaoning Province and former Chongqing Party Secretary
Li Lanqing (李岚清): former head of Central 610 Leadership Team
Wu Guanzheng (吴官正): former Party secretary of Shandong Province
Li Dongsheng (李东生): former vice minister of Public Security and former head of 610 Office
Qiang Wei (强卫): former Party secretary of Jiangxi Province
Huang Jiefu (黄洁夫): former vice minister of Health
Zheng Shusen (郑树森): Hepatobiliary surgeon and former Chair of Zhejiang Province Anti-Cult Association
Wang Lijun (王立军): former chief of the Department of Public Security in Chongqing and former deputy mayor of Chongqing
Zhang Chaoying (张超英): former president of Masanjia Labor Camp in Liaoning Province
Jia Chunwang (贾春旺): former minister of Public Security
Related report in Chinese:
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2018/12/13/人权恶棍面临困境-378389.html
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