(Minghui.org) A total of 105 Falun Gong practitioners from Guiyang, Guizhou Province have filed criminal complaints against Jiang Zemin between May 24 and July 21, 2015, according to reports compiled by the Minghui website.
The practitioners charge the former Chinese dictator with initiating the brutal suppression of Falun Gong and hold him responsible for the tremendous suffering inflicted upon them by his campaign. The criminal complaints were mailed to the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Many of these practitioners recounted how Falun Gong returned them to health and gave them a new outlook on life. Their dream to live a healthier and happier life, however, was shattered when Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide campaign to eradicate the practice in 1999.
Simply for refusing to give up their belief, they were arrested, detained, tortured, and had their homes ransacked and personal belongings seized by the communist authorities. Many also saw their families implicated for their belief, while some were also forced to pay huge fines.
The practitioners in Guiyang who filed criminal complaints include people from all walks of life, including company executives, school teachers, sales associates, physicians, farmers, and blue-collar workers.
Below, we profile a few of these practitioners:
Among the 105 plaintiffs was Mr. Lei Guoting, a former legal chief of the Baiyun District Government Office. He was sentenced to three years of forced labor in March 2004 for refusing to renounce his belief in Falun Gong.
The labor camp restricted his daily activities to the maximum extent and put him in solitary confinement. Inmates monitored him around the clock. He was allowed to stay only in areas approved by inmates and was forced to stand or sit in certain positions required by inmates. He wasn't allowed to talk to anyone.
Mr. Lei was forced to undergo 12 hours of intense physical drills every day. The inmates did not allow him to drink water or take a break. At night, he was subjected to brainwashing sessions until 2 a.m. After only two hours of sleep, he was woken up by the inmates for another day of relentless abuse.
After his three-year term expired, instead of releasing him, the police sent him to Lannigou Brainwashing Center.
Another plaintiff was Ms. Tian Xiao, who lost her job as an accountant as a result of the persecution. Her workplace refused to compensate her wages. Her husband, a non-practitioner, was also denied high-paying jobs.
Ms. Tian was sentenced to three years to Guizhou Women's Forced Labor Camp in 2001 for distributing flyers to expose the persecution.
During her three-year term at the labor camp, she was monitored by four inmates around the clock. In addition to long hours of hard labor, she was detained in solitary confinement, injected with unknown drugs, and forced to stand in the baking sun for a long time. The inmates often verbally abused her. As a part of the labor camp's efforts to brainwash her, the officers forced her to write “thought reports” regularly.
After she was released, staff from neighborhood committee constantly harassed and threatened her, causing enormous stress for Ms. Tian and her family.
Ms. Song Xiaomei, a worker from Honghu Machine Factory, was repeatedly arrested and harassed for telling people about the persecution of Falun Gong.
For going to Beijing to petition the central government for the right to practice Falun Gong, she was sentenced to three years in Guizhou Women's Forced Labor Camp in July 2002. After she was released, she was fired from her workplace.
Ms. Song continues to face harassment. When she and her husband sent their son to attend college in Guangzhou in September 2013, she was arrested at a train station and detained at a police station for three hours.
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.