(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 June 24, 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.
The three practitioners included in this report suffered many forms of persecution for their belief, including torture, imprisonment, and financial loss. In addition, their family members, even those who didn't practice Falun Gong, were implicated.
Mr. Xu Xiaoshi, a county deputy prosecutor, lost his job for refusing to give up his belief at the demands of communist authorities. His parents-in-law were both affected by the persecution.
The sons of Ms. Shui Li, a prison inspector and engineer, were held hostage by police in order to secure her arrest.
Ms. Bai Caiping, a former accountant who was imprisoned three times and fired from her workplace, was deprived of her pension. Now in her sixties, she doesn't have any income, and struggles financially.
Profession: Deputy county prosecutorHometown: Qinghe Forestry District, Heilongjiang ProvinceDate filed: June 6, 2015
Key FactsAfter being repeatedly pressured to give up practicing Falun Gong, Mr. Xu was removed from his prosecutor position in 2000.
His wife, Ms. Pan Jinghua, was detained multiple times and continuously monitored and harassed by police, who also confiscated her identification card.
Mr. Xu's father-in-law was detained twice, interrogated under torture, and extorted by police. He passed away in June 2014.
Mr. Xu's mother-in-law passed away in May 2005, after years of living in constant fear amid the persecution.
Details of complaint in Chinese language
Profession: Prison inspector, technical engineerHometown: Nanjing City, Jiangsu ProvinceDate filed: June 2015
Key FactsMs. Shui was detained twice, held in a brainwashing center six times, and had her home ransacked by police seven times. Officers seized many of her personal belongings and detained her two sons, who did not practice Falun Gong.
She was held in solitary confinement and subjected to brainwashing for 70 days in 2002.
To secure her arrest in July 2013, police held her youngest son hostage. The head of the Nanjing City 610 Office threatened to arrest her entire family if she reported the kidnapping to the Minghui website.
Details of complaint in Chinese language
Profession: AccountantHometown: Shijiazhuang City, Hebei ProvinceDate filed: June 11, 2015
Key FactsMs. Bai was arrested seven times, sent to a forced labor camp twice, and imprisoned once. Her husband was arrested and tortured when police failed to arrest Ms. Bai.
She was subjected to forced labor, brainwashing, torture, and extortion.
Ms. Bai has received no income since being sent to a labor camp in November 2000. Her workplace terminated her employment in 2004.
Current CircumstancesMs. Bai has no pension and is struggling financially.
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.