US Sanctions CCP Official for Persecuting Falun Gong

The United States has sanctioned a Chinese official for his role in persecuting Falun Gong, which the ruling communist regime in China has been targeting 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 as a gross human rights violator, which bars 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.”…}