SAN FRANCISCO—On October 14, Huang Huahua, the governor of Guangdong Province in China was sued in the United States District Court in Northern District of California by International Advocates for Justice and the Human Rights Law Project for crimes of torture. During Huang Huahua's visit to San Fransico Falun Gong practitioners held events to call attention to his crimes.
The case asks the United States Federal Court to investigate his crimes in depth. The indictment also asks the Federal Court to notify the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation and other organizations regarding Huang Huahua’s crimes.
On the same day the suit was filed, Huang Huahua met with a group at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco to recruit them to engage in business investments in China.
Falun Gong practitioners of the Bay area made their presence felt, holding up banners that said, “Bring Evil Police and Bad People Who Persecute Falun Gong to Justice” and “Stop Persecuting Falun Gong.” At noon, they held a press conference about suing Huang Huahua. One of the plaintiffs Zhou Xuefei, was present at the press conference.
Zhou Xuefei was an editor of best-selling books for an advertisement company in Shenzhen City, Guangzhou Province. Because she practiced Falun Gong, Ms. Zhou was sentenced to three years of forced labor, during which she almost lost her sight as a result of torture. Later, through extensive efforts by overseas Falun Gong practitioners and the help of U.S. government officials and international human rights organizations, she was rescued to the United States.
Ms. Zhou said, “In the labor camp, a large number of Falun Gong practitioners were illegally detained. One of the detained female practitioners was beaten with four electric batons at once by an evil person. Some screamed miserably during the tortures. It was really scary…”
Duan Li, a representative of the Western U.S. Falun Dafa Association, said that during Huang's tenure in Guangdong, he actively participated in the persecution, authorizing others to conduct arbitrary arrests, detentions, harassment, torture, and killing of Falun Gong practitioners outside the justice system. The persecution was escalated. Li said, “By law, he should be punished, thus we sue him.”
