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Chicago: Lawsuit Filed against Wang Xudong, Former Party Secretary of Hebei Province (Clearwisdom.net) Former Communist Party Secretary of Hebei Province Wang Xudong was served
with legal papers on June 25 charging him with torture and other cruel, inhumane
and degrading treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in Hebei Province. The
plaintiff in this lawsuit is a Falun Gong practitioner whose name remains
anonymous in the court. According to the complaint, "Defendant Wang Xudong did not follow
international laws and Chinese laws to take action to stop the human rights
abuses of Falun Gong practitioners. Instead, he authorized and supported a harsh
persecution of Falun Gong." Wang, China's current Minister of Information, was in Chicago attending the
third Annual China-U.S. Telecommunications Summit, an event sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Commerce and the Telecommunications Industry Association, a
U.S. trade organization. The attendees were very surprised to learn about the
role Wang has played in the persecution of Falun Gong. Wang is accused of
supporting the persecution while serving as Party Secretary of Hebei Province
from June 2000 through November 2002. Hebei, which surrounds Beijing, is one of five Chinese provinces in which
Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted most aggressively. Of China's 30
provinces, these five have accounted for over half of the deaths of
practitioners from abuse in custody. Posting date: 7/2/2004 |