(Minghui.org) Many Falun Gong practitioners are now exercising their legal right to sue Jiang Zemin for launching the persecution of Falun Gong and causing them great harm and tremendous suffering during the past 16 years. The momentum of this new wave of lawsuits against the former Chinese dictator is on the rise.
The Minghui website receives copies of criminal complaints against Jiang from many practitioners daily. In this report, we present a snapshot of some of the practitioners whose copies of lawsuits were received by Minghui on July 4, 2015.
These lawsuits are mailed to the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, which are required to process all criminal complaints filed by citizens, as of a recent ruling by the Supreme People's Court.
Included in this snapshot are three typical cases of a family broken up in the persecution.
They tell how they benefited from the practice of Falun Gong both physically and spiritually, and how their families were torn apart by the persecution.
Ms. Qiu Liying denounced Jiang Zemin's crimes in her complaint. “All that my family and I have suffered, I attribute to Jiang Zemin, who launched the persecution of Falun Gong.”
Mr. Li Ganglin, who filed complaints on behalf of himself, his son, and his deceased wife, said, “In the past 16 years, the persecution launched by Jiang Zemin has broken up thousands upon thousands of Falun Gong practitioners' families, including my own.”
Ms. Du Shanying described how police ransacked her home. “A gang of police officers, carrying huge axes, 'bang, bang, bang,' knocked down our iron door.”
Profession: Inspector at Shijiazhuang City RefineryHometown: Shijiazhuang City, Hebei ProvinceDate filed: July 4, 2015
Ms. Qiu Liying has been arrested 8 times, and imprisoned for a total of 2,953 days (8 years, 1 month, and 3 days) in the past 16 years. She was near death several times.
She was subjected to terrible torture, including electric shock, being hung up by her arms, left outside to freeze in the winter, made to sit under the blazing sun, and being deprived of sleep. She was subjected to forced labor, brainwashing, brutal beatings, forced injections of nerve-damaging drugs in a mental hospital, hung in the air while handcuffed, forced feeding, and sexual assault.
Suffering for so long brought tremendous pain to Ms. Qiu and her family. Her daughter lost her care at the age of 10. Her husband couldn't bear the pressure and divorced her. Both of her parents passed away in deep sorrow.
Current SituationMs. Qiu Liying has been released. She was dismissed from her job early on in the persecution.
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Profession: Retired Worker and College TeacherHometown: Handan City, Hebei ProvinceDate filed: July 4, 2015
Mr. Li Ganglin, 69, filed criminal complaints on behalf of himself, his son, and his deceased wife. The entire family suffered tremendous pain and was broken up in the persecution.
Mr. Li has been arrested seven times and sentenced to force labor twice.
His wife, Ms. Liu Huanqing, was arrested three times. Police handcuffed her and placed heavy iron chains on her ankles. She lost half her body weight after police beat her and shocked her with electric batons. On the verge of death, police sent her home to avoid responsibility for her condition. She passed away a month later.
Mr. Li's son, Shitou, has been sentenced to forced labor once for four years and a second time for one year. Police guards shocked him with electric batons, beat him, stripped him in public, and deprived him of sleep. He developed ulcers all over his body and became very skinny.
Mr. Li Ganglin has been released, and Ms. Liu Huanqing is deceased. Their son Shitou has been released, but lost his job in 2010.
Details of Complaint in Chinese Language
Profession: Worker in a Marine Boiler FactoryHometown: Jiaozhou City, Shandong ProvinceDate filed: July 4, 2015
About 60 police officers surrounded Ms. Du Shanying's residential building in 2007. They broke down her iron door with axes, ransacked her home, and arrested her and her son Huang Bo.
Two policemen used a stick to push on her anklebone and rolled the stick back and forth. They beat her black and blue and shouted, “We will come back tomorrow and beat you some more. Wait and see! We will destroy your family and put you all to death!”
Mr. Huang Bo was tortured in an iron cage for one month.
The persecution pushed Ms. Du to the verge of despair. The family was eventually forced to leave their home to escape persecution.
Current SituationThe family (except her son) has become homeless.
Details of 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.