Washington, D.C.—While a high-level delegation from China visits Washington, D.C. for trade talks and as U.S. Congressional leaders are preparing to impose trade sanctions against China, some members of the Chinese delegation are being sued for genocide, torture, and acts against humanity.
Vice Premier Wu Yi, the highest-ranking female official in China, led the Chinese delegation to the White House and Capitol Hill on May 24. At least two members of her delegations are being sued for serious human rights violations. Wang Xudong, Minister of Information Industry, is one of them.
Wang Xudong was served with legal documents at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
Wang Xudong was Communist Party Secretary of Hebei Province in China from June 2000 to November 2002. According to an earlier report on September of 2005 by The Epoch Times, Heibei is one of five provinces in China that persecuted Falun Gong most severely, where the number of practitioners who have been tortured to death in these five provinces accounted for more than half of the total in China.
Attorney Terri Marsh has a message for Wang: "My suggestion would be that you file an answer. If you've been sued, why don't you respond? Why don't you respond to the charges and come to court and let us cross examine you and let the truth be heard?"
Terri Marsh is the U.S. Director of the Human Rights Law Foundation, a not-for-profit human rights public interest NGO. Its purpose is to defend the rights of all to be free from torture and other egregious human rights abuses.
Wang has been evading legal prosecution in the United States. An earlier lawsuit was filed against Wang on June of 2004 while he was participating in the Third Sino-US Telecommunication Summit in Chicago, hosted by the American Ministry of Commerce and the American Telecommunication Industry Association.
The legal service against Wang is part of a much larger international effort to bring justice to those most responsible for the brutal and systematic persecution in China.
Bo Xilai, Minister of Commerce, another member of Wu Yi's delegation, is also being sued. Many others who are allegedly responsible for the persecution in China are being sued in the U.S. and other countries.
"They are very uncomfortable, very nervous, very afraid of these lawsuits because I think in their hearts they know that they have done things that are wrong and they do not want to be held accountable. But the truth of the matter is that someday, they will be held accountable in some court," says Marsh.
Feeds