On Human Rights Day, US Government Sanctions Persecutor of Falun Gong

A woman holds a photo of a man killed by the Chinese regime's persecution of Falun Gong, during a parade in Washington on July 17, 2014. Larry Dye/The Epoch Times

On this Human Rights Day, Secretary of State Pompeo issued a statement announcing the public designation of 17 foreign officials involved in gross human right violations. The short statement included three names. One of them was Huang Yuanxiong, chief of the Xiamen Public Security Bureau Wucun Police Station in China, who was sanctioned “for his involvement in gross violations of human rights ... associated with particularly severe violations of religious freedom of Falun Gong practitioners.”

We applaud this action. It’s long overdue and represents a sharp break with previous attempts by Western governments to appease the Chinese regime.