The Epoch Times by Eva Fu
The U.S. State Department on Jan. 21 condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for sentencing 11 Falun Gong practitioners to prison terms as long as eight years for exercising their religious beliefs.
The Jan. 14 sentences were handed down just weeks ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
The State Department is calling on Beijing to âimmediately end its depraved abuse and mistreatment of Falun Gong practitioners, release those imprisoned due to their beliefs, and address the whereabouts of missing practitioners,â a department official told The Epoch Times in an email…
