(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 is on the rise.
The Minghui website receives copies of criminal complaints against Jiang from many practitioners daily. We present in this report a snapshot of three of the lawsuits received by Minghui on August 10, 2015.
The lawsuits are being mailed to the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, which are required by law to process all criminal complaints filed by citizens, as of a recent ruling by the Supreme People's Court.
1: Mr. Tang Zhiheng (汤志衡)
Profession: General manager of a leather factory in Huadu DistrictHometown: Guangzhou City, Guangdong ProvinceDate filed: June 29, 2015
Key FactsMr. Tang has been arrested four times, detained twice, held in a brainwashing center once, put in a forced labor camp once for two years, and imprisoned for 4.5 years.
He was arrested for petitioning the central government in Beijing for the right to practice Falun Gong in July 2000. He was detained, beaten, held in a brainwashing center, and forced to do slave labor. In October, the authorities again put him in a brainwashing center for one week.
Mr. Tang was held in a drug rehabilitation center in January 2002 for three months, where he was beaten and force-fed. Shortly after being released, he was arrested again in April and put in a forced labor camp for two years.
The authorities arrested and tortured him in January 2005, attempting to extort a confession. He was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in September, where he was tortured and subjected to brainwashing.
Details of complaint in Chinese
2: Ms. Li Dianqin (李殿芹)
Profession: AccountantHometown: Shenyang City, Liaoning ProvinceDate filed: July 8, 2015
Key FactsThe police arrested Ms. Li in November 1999 and put her in a mental hospital to force her to give up her belief.
Five officers broke into Ms. Li's home in June 2000, and beat her until they were exhausted. Ms. Li sustained permanent head damage as a result.
The police put her in a mental hospital in July 2000, and subjected her to brainwashing for two months.
She was put in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in September 2000. Her health deteriorated as a result of torture, and by the end of the year she was near death. Her liver cancer recurred. The authorities released her to avoid responsibility in the event of her death. She was constantly monitored by police after her release.
Ms. Li was apprehended and detained in October 2007. In January 2008 she was held in Liaoning Women's Prison for two years and nine months. There, she was tortured physically and mentally, and deprived of sleep, food, water, and bathroom use.
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Details of complaint in Chinese
3: Ms. Li Ming(李明) on behalf of her mother Ms. Zhang Guozhen (张国珍)
Hometown: Fuxin City, Liaoning ProvinceDate filed: June 7, 2015
Key FactsBefore Ms. Zhang's latest arrest in 2014, she had been tortured in two forced labor camps for a total of four years. She was also imprisoned for three years.
In Fuxin Forced Labor Camp, Ms. Zhang was beaten, shocked with electric batons, and forced to run for hours before being tortured until after midnight.
Ms. Zhang was forced to make knitwear from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day in Liaoning Women's Prison. When she couldn't meet the quota, the guards shocked her with electric batons, deprived her of food and bathroom use for days, and fined her to make up for the “loss.” On freezing winter days Ms. Zhang was stripped of her clothes and forced to stand outside until she lost feeling in her limbs. She became emaciated as a result of torture, her weight dropped from 154 to 99 pounds, and she became diabetic.
In Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, Ms. Zhang was often hung up with her hands cuffed to the tops of two bunk beds and her legs cuffed to the bottom bunks. Guards shook the beds to strain her shoulders and wrists. She was left in this position for hours or days at a time. Her arms and legs became bruised and lost feeling. After she was let down, she had to crawl for a long time.
After her 2014 arrest, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to three years and two months in prison in March 2015. She appealed, but an intermediate court upheld the original sentence.
Current Circumstances: Ms. Zhang is still in prison.
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Details of complaint in Chinese
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 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.
Category: Prosecuting Jiang Zemin
