(Minghui.org) Many Falun Gong practitioners are now exercising their legal right to sue Jiang Zemin for launching the 16-year persecution of their spiritual belief – a movement that has been gaining strength by the day.
The Minghui website receives copies of criminal complaints against Jiang from practitioners every day. Based on the selection of copies received on June 20, 2015, we see that the persecution has affected leaders in society, including a general manager, a police commissioner, and a senior engineer.
In addition to enduring unlawful imprisonment and torture, all three lost their jobs and struggled to make ends meet as a result of the persecution.
Police commissioner Mr. Zhang and his wife were arrested multiple times and heavily sentenced. His wife was very weak when she was released on November 19, 2012, and her hair had turned white prematurely, at the age of 51. She died in February 2013, just 80 days after being released from prison.
Senior engineer Mr. Song appealed his three-year sentence twice, citing a confession extracted by torture, lack of evidence, forged court documents, and illegal detention. The Shijiazhuang City Intermediate Court upheld the original verdict, although it did not have jurisdiction over the case.
Profession: General Manager of Dongda Daily Chemical Co., Ltd.Hometown: Botou City, Hebei ProvinceDate filed: June 2015
Key FactsMs. Wei was removed from her position as general manager.
She was held in a detention center for a month, and forced to do hard labor starting on November 23, 2005. She was released after her husband was made to pay 8,000 yuan to the police.
She was again arrested in 2009, hung up by handcuffs and whipped almost daily in the detention center.
Current CircumstancesMs. Wei is free.
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Details of Ms. Wei's criminal complaint in Chinese language
Profession: Police CommissionerHometown: Dongying City, Shandong ProvinceDate filed: June 11, 2015
Key FactsPolice arrested Mr. Zhang and his wife Ms. Wang in July 2000, and ransacked their home. Ms. Wang was detained for more than a month. Mr. Zhang was sentenced to three years of forced labor in September 2000.
The couple was arrested on May 13, 2005 and interrogated by torture. They were subjected to the “death bed torture” for over a month.
Mr. Zhang was sentenced to an eight-year prison term, Ms. Wang was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on July 28, 2006.
Ms. Wang was released on November 19, 2012 and died on February 11, 2013.
Current CircumstancesMr. Zhang has had no income since 2013.
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Profession: Senior EngineerHometown: Shijiazhuang City, Hebei ProvinceDate filed: June 17, 2015
Key FactsMr. Song was removed from his job as an equipment office director, expelled from the Chinese Communist Party, and put on probation for one year.
He was taken to a brainwashing center in November 2002, where he was deprived of sleep for several days.
He was arrested in June 2007 and sentenced to three years in prison.
Mr. Song has had no income since his release on June 21, 2010.
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Details of Mr. Song's criminal complaint in Chinese language
In 1999, Jiang Zemin, as head of the Chinese Communist Party, overrode other Politburo standing committee members and launched the violent suppression of Falun Gong.
The persecution has led to the deaths of many Falun Gong practitioners in the past 16 years. More have been tortured for their belief and even killed for their organs. Jiang Zemin is directly responsible for the inception and continuation of the brutal persecution.
Under his personal direction, the Chinese Communist Party established an extralegal security organ, the “610 Office,” on June 10, 1999. The organization overrides police forces and the judicial system in carrying out Jiang's directive regarding Falun Gong: to ruin their reputations, cut off their financial resources, and destroy them physically.
Chinese law allows for citizens to be plaintiffs in criminal cases, and many practitioners are now exercising that right to file criminal complaints against the former dictator.