(Minghui.org) From September 2016 to October 2021, when Wu Zhe served as the Deputy Prosecutor General of Dalian City Procuratorate in Liaoning Province, 179 local Falun Gong practitioners were unlawfully prosecuted and sentenced to prison. Of the 179 practitioners, 70 were sentenced to prison to four years or more. Three practitioners, Mr. Liu Xiyong, Ms. Zhong Shujuan and Mr. Zheng Dezai, died as a result of the persecution.

Wu Zhe, born in 1962 and of Mongolian ethnicity, is a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2006, he was appointed as the Head of the Discipline Inspection Team, member of the Party Organisation and the Inspection Committee of Liaoning Provincial Procuratorate.

In August 2010, he was appointed as the Deputy Prosecutor General of Liaoning Provincial Procuratorate. In September 2016, he was appointed as the Deputy Prosecutor General and Acting Prosecutor General of Dalian City Procuratorate. From March 2017 to October 2021, he was appointed as the Prosecutor General of Dalian City Procuratorate.

In order to advance his career, Wu Zhe actively followed Jiang Zemin’s directive to persecute Falun Gong – “Ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically.”

During the 11 years while he was the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Liaoning Provincial Procuratorate and the Prosecutor General of the Dalian Procuratorate, 179 practitioners were sentenced to prisons, including 35 in 2016, 48 in 2017, 24 in 2018, 26 in 2019, 14 in 2020, 30 in 2021 and 2 in 2022.