(Minghui.org) Mr. Zhu Junqiang, 45, recently filed a lawsuit against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for ordering the brutal suppression of Falun Gong and causing him tremendous physical and mental suffering.

Receipt for Mr. Zhu Junqiang's criminal complaint sent to the Supreme People's Procuratorate

In the 16 years since Jiang launched the violent campaign against Falun Gong, Mr. Zhu was held in a forced labor camp twice and detained three times. Police also monitored his home and cell phone lines and withheld his identification card. To avoid further harassment and arrests for refusing to give up his belief, he left home seven times.

Mr. Zhu's complaint charges Jiang with extracting a confession by torture, deprivation of his constitutional right to religious belief, illegal confiscation of property, and other crimes.

Mr. Zhu started practicing Falun Gong in 1998 and reported physical and mental benefits. However, after Jiang initiated the persecution campaign on July 20, 1999, Mr. Zhu was imprisoned and tortured, until his release in 2011, for refusing to renounce his belief in Falun Gong.

Police Harassment and Surveillance

By late 2012, the police were still monitoring and harassing Mr. Zhu. Below, Mr. Zhu recalls one such incident:

At the end of October, Zhang Zhujun, director of the Li County Business Department, instructed Zhang Huiming to go to my stationery store to monitor me.

On November 2, a deputy director of Chengguan Police Station and other officers arrived at my store to take me away. Because I was not there at the time, they went to my father-in-law's, searched his home, and took two printers. Then they headed to the home of my brother, Zhu Junmin. The same night, they came to my home to harass me.

Background

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.