ICC NOTE: The deputy head of a provincial public security department in Xinjiang province was arrested for bribery and abuse of power by the Communist Party in China. However, in comparison to the treatment of Falun Gong and other religious minorities under his command, the charges are merely a slap on the wrist. According to reports at least ten prisoners who were Falun Gong practitioners died while incarcerated. Many more died soon after their release from various labor camps, detention centers, and re-education camps. Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted by the Chinese government since 1999 when the Communist Party pledge to eliminate the practice. Recent reports from family members and human rights watch groups suggest imprisoned Falun Gong members are being used for organ harvesting. 

1/7/2016 China (Epoch Times) – The deputy head of a provincial public security department has been arrested for bribery and abuse of power in China. Xiu Hui is now in the custody of the system he sat atop for many years where he dished out torture and severe punishment to persecuted groups.

The majority of Xiu’s victims were practitioners of Falun Gong, a traditional spiritual discipline that’s been persecuted in China since 1999.

According to state mouthpiece media People’s Daily Online, the procuratorate in Xinjiang Province announced that an investigation against Xiu was underway.

Since 2002, Xiu’s entire career was in public security in Xinjiang. From January 2002 to September 2010 he was party secretary and administration of re-education through labor. He then became party secretary and director of prisons until June 2013, when he was promoted to deputy head of public security.

But the crimes he is accused of are minor in comparison to the cruel torture he ordered on innocent people in his various positions, according to Minghui.org, a website that provides up-to-date reports about the persecution of Falun Gong.

Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that teaches people to live by the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, became targeted for persecution in China on July 20, 1999, when then Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin ordered a nationwide crackdown on the group.

Thousands of Falun Gong followers have been persecuted to death, and hundreds of thousands have been imprisoned in detention centers, brainwashing centers, labor camps, and prisons. Countless more have been victimized. Before the launch of the suppression, there were an estimated 70 million Falun Gong followers in China, according to a state survey at the time.

Deaths Under Xiu’s Watch

Minghui notes 10 prominent cases of severely persecuted Falun Gong practitioners, nine to death, in labor camps under Xiu’s watch.

Ge Lijun, born in 1976, was expelled from a college in Xinjiang after the school learned he practiced Falun Gong meditation. From 1999 to 2009, Ge was sent to Ghangli City Forced Labor Camp three times for a total of six years. The last time he was released, in March 2009, he was in a poor health from being tortured with electric shocks, sleep deprivation, and other methods. Ge died three months later after local hospitals refused to treat him on order of the police and security bureau.

Niu Guifen passed away in November 2013, one year after being released from Xinjiang’s Women’s Prison. During her 4.5-year sentence, Niu was subjected to physical and psychological torture as authorities tried to coerce her into renouncing her beliefs.

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