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| Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne attends a private event with Luo Zhijun, the party secretary for China’s Jiangsu province at the Royal Ontario Museum |
TORONTO—Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne kicked up a small media storm by excluding the press from her meeting with a man accused of presiding over torture and murder, and who is now facing two investigations for his malfeasance in China.
The official is Luo Zhijun, the party secretary for China’s Jiangsu province. Wynne’s office had excluded media from three events held with Luo at the request of the Chinese delegation, though the premier later said it was due to a mistake in her itinerary after multiple news outlets covered the incident.
Luo was in Toronto on Wednesday, Oct. 7, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Ontario-Jiangsu Friendship Agreement.
Wynne initially said she was asked by Chinese officials to not allow media to attend the events. After being questioned on the issue, she later said a mistake in her official itinerary was to blame, and changed the itinerary to allow a quick photo-op.
Luo is an ally of former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin, whose network within the Party is being systematically purged by current Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Like many of Jiang’s highest-ranking allies, Luo proved his loyalty by pushing a violent crackdown on Falun Gong in his jurisdiction. According to one count, 48 adherents died in his prisons and labour camps.
Luo is widely believed to be under investigation by Xi’s regime, and the Epoch Times has predicted he will fall. (more...)
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