(Clearwisdom.net) A US court issued a civil lawsuit subpoena to Director Ye Xiaowen and to Deputy Director Wang Zuoan of China's Religious Affairs Bureau, both of whom are currently visiting the US. They are accused of inciting, instigating, conspiring, ordering, planning and/or aiding and abetting torture, genocide and other human rights abuses against Falun Gong. At the same time, the Spanish Court also accepted the lawsuit filed by Falun Gong practitioners against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders.

Ye, as the Director of the State Administration of Religious Affairs (SARA) since 1999, played and continues to play a vital role in the persecution of Falun Gong. In collaboration with other high-ranking officials in SARA, the 610 Office and the Chinese Communist Party, Ye designed, produced and implemented a campaign of propaganda to demonize Falun Gong to help legitimize the persecution. Ye, along with other high-ranking officials in SARA and the 610 Office, also used his office to coordinate and supervise the violent and brutal conversion of Falun Gong practitioners in provinces and cities across China through brainwashing and other forms of torture. The stated role of SARA is to protect religious freedom, but under Ye's administration, it has become one of the most effective tools used by the regime to carry out the persecution against Falun Gong. With help from SARA, the CCP regime declared Falun Gong practitioners as enemies of the state, and then turned around and used that designation to justify the persecution.

Guo Chuanjie was found guilty last June by a judge in the US Federal Court, and required him to compensate for the damage and economic loss to the Falun Gong plaintiffs.

In addition, in a ruling on June 6, 2006, Spain's Supreme Court ordered the National Court to consider a genocide complaint by Falun Gong practitioners against Jia Qinglin, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). In 2004, the Spanish National Court rejected this lawsuit on the grounds that it had not been established that Jia was in Spain. Another court in Spain accepted a case earlier which accused seven CCP leaders of genocide, torture and crimes against humanity in Tibet during the 1980s.

According to statistics listed on Clearwisdom.net, Falun Gong practitioners have filed 13 lawsuits in 28 countries worldwide against Jiang Zemin. Currently, 34 lawsuits against 22 CCP leaders are underway.

This is the first lawsuit against CCP leaders in the religious field since the persecution of Falun Gong started in July 1999. Prior to this case, Falun Gong practitioners once filed lawsuits against Guo Chuanjie, the deputy head of the "Leadership Group Handling the Falun Gong Issues" in the CCP's Academy of Science, and director of the Wuhan TV station, Zhang Zhizhen.