(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 number of lawsuits being filed against the former Chinese dictator continues to 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 from November 9 to 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: FarmerHometown: Linghai City, Liaoning ProvinceDate filed: July 29, 2015
Key Facts: Mr. Li has been arrested three times and severely tortured.
He was first arrested on February 4, 2000, when he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. The police took him back to his hometown and beat him repeatedly.
At Linghai Police Department, the police told him to kneel down. He refused. One police officer pushed him down and stepped on his back while four others beat him. They burned his neck with cigarettes, hit his head with a stick, stabbed him with a needle, cut the soles of his feet with a knife, and raked his ribs with a screwdriver and cigarette lighter.
Mr. Li was put in Jinzhou Municipal Forced Labor Camp in March 2000. He was beaten seven times the first four days. He suffered frequent beatings, electric shocks, cigarette burns, whippings, and other forms of torture for doing the Falun Gong exercises and not wearing the inmate uniform. He was not allowed to sleep for five days. He was also held in solitary for four months.
He was released on medical parole in November 2000.
He was then arrested in July 2004. After holding a hunger strike for 13 days and becoming extremely weak, he was released.
In June 2005, Mr. Li was arrested again. He was released a few days later.
His wife was put in the infamous Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning for a year.
Current Circumstances: Mr. Li is currently at home.
Details of complaint in Chinese
Profession: Veteran, retired business managerHometown: Lhasa City, TibetDate filed: August 22, 2015
Key Facts: Mr. Si has lived in Tibet for 39 years. He was stationed in Tibet while serving in the military since 1976. He then worked at the Tibet Gaozheng Group, a state-owned enterprise, until his retirement from the army in 1980.
He was removed from management in July 2003 for being a Falun Gong practitioner.
The Tibetan 610 Office staff ransacked his home and office in early 2004. He was interrogated for a whole night and not allowed to sleep.
He was taken away as a “key person being monitored” in 2015 when he went through an ID check at the Lhasa airport.
Over the years, the police have monitored his phone and stationed a car outside his residence on major holidays. Whenever he leaves home, the police demand to know where he is going.
Current Circumstances: Mr. Si is currently at home.
Details of complaint in Chinese
Profession: FarmerHometown: Dashiqiao City, Liaoning ProvinceDate filed: July, 2015
Key Facts: Mr. Geng spent two years in a forced labor camp and ten years in prison.
He was arrested in October 1999 for going to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. He was arrested and sent to a forced labor camp for two years.
Right after he was released, he was arrested at home the next day and detained for 15 days. Then he left home and went into hiding.
He was arrested in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province, in April 2003 and sentenced to ten years in prison.
At the Yingkou Detention Center, he was tied to the death bed for two days. He was not released even when he needed to go to the bathroom. He felt great pain in his heart, as if he was dying.
He was once electrically shocked for eight hours in Shenyang No. 1 Prison in Liaoning. Guards restrained him in an iron chair and ordered criminal inmates to beat him and punch him in the ribs to keep him from sleeping.
After 40 hours, they started to electrically shock him. Mr. Geng's hands and legs were burned and swollen. Inmates also shocked him.
Mr. Geng was released in 2013. The local police withheld his residential ID card, making it hard for him to find a regular job. The police also went to his home several times to draw his blood.
The 610 Office brought reporters from a television station to his home when he and his mother were sent to forced labor camps. They asked his father to blame Falun Gong for the forced labor terms, but he drove them out. However, his father was so upset and worried about them that he passed away in early 2000.
Current Circumstances: Mr. Geng has left his hometown and gone into hiding to avoid further persecution.
Practitioners Tortured Beyond Recognition (Part I)
Details of complaint in Chinese
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 during 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.