(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 October 11 and 12, 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.
Profession: Engineer and founder of two companiesHometown: Henan ProvinceDate filed: August 2015
Key FactsIn January 2000 Mr. Zhai signed a petition to support Falun Gong and, for that, was detained for nine months. In December he was sentenced to 18 months at the Henan Third Forced Labor Camp because the authorities believed that he was responsible for helping practitioners go to protest in Beijing.
The authorities stopped his pay, denied him access to his own companies' activities, and took away his stock shares. Over the course of two years, his companies' assets that were worth millions were taken away from him and transferred to other people's names.
After Mr. Zhai was released from the labor camp, he and his family were constantly monitored.
Current CircumstancesThe authorities are still monitoring Mr. Zhai and restricts him from traveling.
Details of complaint in Chinese language http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2015/10/11/被非法劳教、侵占资产-企业创办人控告江泽民-317392.html
Profession: Manager in a foreign trade companyHometown: Zoucheng City, Shandong ProvinceDate filed: July 17, 2015
Key FactsWhen the persecution started in 1999, Ms. Jiang Hongyan was a senior at Shandong University of Science and Technology. School authorities threatened to expel her and ordered her classmates monitor her. The school called and threatened her parents as well. She never received her diploma after she passed all of her tests and turned in her final papers.
Because of her practice, she was fired from one job in 2001 and heavily discriminated against at another job after that. She was denied honors and benefits despite her performance. She was given the lowest wage for doing the same job as others.
In 2007 the police arrested Ms. Jiang's mother, who was also a practitioner, and put her in a forced labor camp.
Details of complaint in Chinese language http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2015/10/11/山东兖矿集团公司项目经理控告江泽民-317305.html
Hometown: ShanghaiDate filed: August and September, 2015
Key FactsIn the past 16 years Mr. Guo Jinfu was tortured in a forced labor camp for two and a half years, imprisoned for three years, and had to live away from home for six months. The authorities brutally tortured him in prison. His wife, Ms. Chen Wenying, was also tortured in a forced labor camp and as a result suffered a mental breakdown.
In 2000 both Ms. Chen and Mr. Guo went to Beijing multiple times to protest the persecution. Ms. Chen was arrested and detained three times and ended up in Qinghai Women's Forced Labor Camp for 18 months. Mr. Guo was arrested twice and locked up in Qingpu 3rd Forced Labor Camp in 2001 for two and a half years.
Ms. Chen had a mental breakdown after being tortured, humiliated, and abused in Qingpu Women's Forced Labor Camp for 18 months. She was constantly deprived of food while being hung up in the air with handcuffs for days. The guards forced her to sit still facing a wall for a week. She was monitored around-the-clock by other inmates and placed under extreme mental pressure.
In 2001 Mr. Guo was arrested for distributing Falun Gong literature. The police put him in a metal chair for nine consecutive days while beating him and depriving him of sleep.
He was put in Qingpu 3rd Forced Labor Camp in April 2002. He was shocked with electric batons until he became incontinent. He went on a hunger strike to protest. He was tied down on a bed and violently force-fed, to the point where the feeding tube broke open. When he refused to give up the practice, the guards shocked him with electric batons at the soles of his feet, genitals, nipples, armpits, palms, neck and inside the mouth until the electricity ran out. He was constantly beaten and physically abused. He was released in 2004.
In 2006 Mr. Guo was arrested for distributing Falun Gong literature. He was put in Xuhui Detention Center. The police tortured him and deprived him of sleep. Xuhui District Court sentenced him to three years in Lanqiao Prison. He was placed under a bed with his face against his knee for a long time, shocked with electric batons, tied down on a bed for days and force-fed. He was released in 2009 but was still constantly monitored, harassed, threatened, and detained.
Current CircumstancesMs. Chen and Mr. Guo are still living away from home separately to avoid persecution.
Related Report(s)Mr. Liu Peng and Mr. Guo Jingfu Brutally Tortured in Shanghai Forced Labor Camps
Details of complaint in Chinese language http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2015/10/12/夫遭酷刑妻被逼疯-上海夫妻控告元凶-317208.html
Hometown: Nanzhao County, Henan ProvinceDate filed: August 24, 2015
Key FactsMr. Li Xincheng went to Beijing to protest in 2000. The police arrested him and put him in Nanzhao Detention Center, where he was beaten and forced to do manual labor. His employer stopped his pay.
In 2001 Mr. Li was taken away and locked in Lushan County Detention Center. His son Li Shiyang went to visit him, and was also detained and tortured. The rest of the family fell into financial crisis, but they managed to borrow a lot of money to bribe the authorities and get the father and son released.
In 2003 the police arrested Mr. Li Xincheng at work for calling a practitioner and locked him in Xuchang Forced Labor Camp. The guards tied four toothbrushes together and stuck them into his anus, shocked him with electricity, handcuffed and hung him up in the air, forced him to perform manual labor, and beat him. His weight dropped to 40 lbs and he became hunchbacked due to the torture. His hands trembled and couldn't hold things properly. He was fired from work and all his pay was withheld.
Mr. Li was released in 2004 but arrested in June 2005 for trying to leave town to find a job. He was locked in a detention center. Mr. Li's wife couldn't stand the constant harassment and arrest of her husband. At the same time she had to support the family financially. Her health deteriorated and she died at the age of 56.
Eight months after her death, Mr. Li was sentenced to three years in prison with three years' probation. With his wife's death, little income and poor living conditions, as well as constant harassment from the authorities, he fell ill in 2009 and died in 2011 at the age of 58.
Related Report(s)The Persecution Suffered by Mi Changrong of Nanzhao County, Henan Province Before Her Death
Details of complaint in Chinese language http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2015/10/12/父母双双被迫害致死-河南李世洋控告元凶江泽民-317360.html
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.