The State Department unveiled sanctions against a Chinese official for persecuting Falun Gong, as the communist regime’s brutal suppression of the spiritual practice approaches its 22nd year. The sanction will bar Yu Hui, former director of the Central Leading Group on Preventing and Dealing with Heretical Religions in Chengdu city of southwestern China’s Sichuan Province, from entering the United States. The penalty also extends to his immediate family members. “We will continue to consider all appropriate tools to promote accountability for those responsible for human rights violations and abuses in China and elsewhere,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press briefing as he announced the release of the department’s annual report on international religious freedom. Blinken said the designation was applied to Yu for his involvement in “gross violations of human rights, namely the arbitrary detention of Falun Gong practitioners for their spiritual beliefs.” The spiritual discipline Falun …