Press Conference: Senior Ranking Official Charged with Crimes Against Humanity
August 28th New York
Press Conference Opening Remarks
Hello, and thank you everyone for attending.
I'm Gail Raichlin, a spokesperson for Falun Gong, and today
we are here to announce a significant development in the effort to bring to
justice the perpetrators of the brutal persecution against Falun Gong in China.
At about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a high-ranking xx Party official
from Sichuan Province, China, Mr. Zhou Yongkang, was served in Chicago,
Illinois, in front of the city's 911 Center, with a complaint for violation of
the Alien Tort Claim Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act. Zhou serves as
the General Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese xx Party
(PCCCP) of Sichuan Province. He is being charged with the commission of serious
human rights abuses against the plaintiff and his sister -- including torture,
disappearance, false imprisonment, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and
crimes against humanity. As General secretary of the PCCCP, Zhou, in concert
with other officials of the xx party and high-ranking government officials,
authorized, supervised, and implemented a campaign to persecute, intimidate and
ultimately eliminate the Falun Gong spiritual movement in the province of
Sichuan, and elsewhere in China. This campaign has involved a catastrophic loss
of lives, the loss of jobs, the disappearance of select persons, brutal
torture--which is often conducted in police stations to extract false
confessions--the systematic breaking of families, and the disruption of civil
society. In addition to subjecting innocent citizens to arbitrary arrests and
detentions, cruel and inhuman treatment, torture, disappearance and death, this
campaign is a breach of a number of international agreements to which China is a
signatory.
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