(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 July 7, 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.
A couple were sent to a forced labor camp at the same time, leaving their teenage daughter unattended. She developed many illnesses and passed away.
A government official was fired from his job, and his family was evicted from their home. His wife passed away in 2014 after enduring years of threats and harassment. His son was also arrested several times and beaten.
A former art teacher was detained for more than ten years in total. As he was unable to take care of his elderly, ill mother, his wife endured tremendous stress.
A 86-year-old retired official has been imprisoned for his beliefs. His pension was revoked for eleven years, and he now receives a monthly subsidy of only 1000 yuan, putting him in great financial hardship.
Profession: Official at Discipline Inspection CommitteeHometown: Pingshan County, Hebei ProvinceDate filed: June 25, 2015
Key FactsMr. Liu was detained for ten days for petitioning for the right to practice Falun Gong in Beijing on July 22, 1999.
He was arrested in November 2000 and tortured, interrogated, and deprived of sleep in the local police department. He was forced to sign fabricated interrogation transcripts after the authorities threatened to send his wife to a labor camp.
The police also extorted 2000 yuan from his wife and son, and beat his son when he tried to resist.
Mr. Liu was injected with unknown drugs in the Hebei Province No. 1 Prison, which caused him to fall ill. He kept coughing up blood, felt a cold sensation in his body, and lost his appetite. Since then he became emaciated and has a poor sense of balance.
Mr. Liu was evicted from his home and fired from his job in 2004.
Mrs. Liu passed away in 2014 after years of threats from the authorities.
Current CircumstancesMr. Liu lives with his children and makes a living from manual labor.
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Details of complaint in Chinese language
Profession: UnknownHometown: Harbin City, Heilongjiang ProvinceDate filed: June 29, 2015
Key FactsMr. Jia and Ms. Jiang were arrested and detained multiple times. They were put into a forced labor camp in 2000, leaving their teenage daughter on her own.
Their daughter developed chronic depression from the trauma of losing her parents. This condition was worsened by the police's continued threats on her life. Her physical condition also deteriorated, and with no one to take care of her, she passed away on December 11, 2004, at the age of 22.
The couple was again arrested in 2009 and detained for more than 40 days. Their personal computer, printer, and cash were seized, for a financial loss of over 28,000 yuan.
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Details of complaint in Chinese languageCase 3: Mr. Qin Wei (秦尉)
Profession: Art teacherHometown: BeijingDate filed: June 15, 2015
Key FactsMr. Qin was arrested for a seventh time on May 6, 2015.
He was held in a forced labor camp twice for a total of four years, and sentenced to prison once for a five-and-a-half years. In addition, he spent a total of ten years and three months in various detention and brainwashing centers.
He was subjected to electric shocks, forced labor, solitary confinement, and other forms of torture.
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Details of complaint in Chinese language
Profession: Retired officialHometown: Jingmen City, Hubei ProvinceDate filed: July, 2015
Key FactsPolice interrogated and threatened Mr. Li several times in their attempts to force him to renounce Falun Gong. He has been held in detention centers and brainwashing centers.
He was sentenced to three years in prison for photocopying public letters with information about Falun Gong and the persecution. His children jointly applied for his probation, but Mr. Li was not allowed to go back to his own home.
He and his wife lived in a small house in the countryside for eight years to avoid further arrests.
In addition, his pension was revoked for eleven years. After repeated appeals, in December 2013 he was granted a subsidy of only 1000 yuan per month, less than one-third of his pension.
His grandson was implicated by association and demoted at his job.
Current CircumstancesMr. Li, now 86, lives in financial hardship.
Related Report(s)The Persecution of a Retired Official and His Family in Jingmen City, Hubei Province
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.