The United States has sanctioned a Chinese official for his role in persecuting the faith group Falun Gong, which the communist party ruling China has targeted in an unrelenting eradication campaign for more than 23 years.
Tang Yong, formerly a deputy director of the Chongqing Area Prisons in southwestern China, is now designated a gross human rights violator, barring him and his immediate family from entering the United States.
The State Department said that Tang had been responsible for “gross violations of human rights, namely arbitrary detention of Falun Gong practitioners, which also amount to particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”
There’s little other information available about Tang from the State Department sanction sheet released on Dec. 9, the eve of the Human Rights Day, targeting a long list of individuals engaged in corruption or human rights abuses….