(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guo Ruiping was secretly sentenced to five years in prison for filing a criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin, former head of Chinese Communist Party (CCP), for initiating and directing the persecution of Falun Gong. She is appealing to a higher court.
Ms. Guo, 47, has been held at Anyang Detention Center for over six months and denied family visitation. Her family learned only two weeks ago that Ms. Guo had been sentenced.
Officers from Hengshui Town Police Station broke into Ms. Guo's home on April 1, 2016 and arrested her. They ransacked her residence and confiscated a computer, a printer, Falun Gong books, and other personal belongings. They also ransacked her new house and confiscated a printer, 3,000 yuan in cash, and Falun Gong informational materials.
Ms. Guo lives in Jiujiazhuang Village, Hengshui Town, Linzhou City. The police tried to arrest her in 2014. Ms. Guo had to leave home to avoid persecution. When she went to the police station to get a new identification card in winter 2014, she was told that her residential registration had been canceled. The police refused to issue her a new card. Ms. Guo has since not had an identification card.
Earlier report:Three Practitioners from Henan Province Arrested for Suing Jiang Zemin
Background
In 1999 Jiang Zemin, as head of the CCP, 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 over 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 CCP 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.
