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Former Military Officer Sues Jiang Zemin for Wrongful Imprisonment

June 07, 2015 |   By a Minghui correspondent in Chongqing City, China

(Minghui.org) Mr. Du Hanwen submitted a criminal complaint against former Chinese President Jiang Zemin on May 24, 2015, for wrongful detention and imprisonment over the past 16 years.

Receipt for Mr. Du Hanwen's complaint to the Supreme People's Procuratorate

Mr. Du Hanwen, 52, is a former battalion-level military officer stationed in Chongqing City. After the onset of the persecution, Mr. Du was assigned the position of storage housekeeper, for refusing to renounce Falun Gong. Mr. Du worked hard and never complained, but the officials harassed, detained, and imprisoned him for his belief.

Mr. Du's home was ransacked 15 times, and he was detained five times, totaling four years and 50 days. He was detained without any legal recourse and sentenced three times to forced labor.

Mr. Du knows that practicing Falun Gong should be legal in China, and that freedom of belief is guaranteed to every Chinese citizen by the Chinese Constitution.

In his criminal complaint, Mr. Du pointed out that Jiang Zemin violated the Chinese Constitution, Chinese Criminal Law, and Chinese Criminal Procedure Law by forming the 610 Office, which was established for the sole purpose detaining, torturing, brainwashing, and imprisoning Falun Gong practitioners.

Mr. Du began practicing Falun Gong in 1996.

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.