(Minghui.org) Since late October of last year, 5,215 residents of Changsha City, Hunan Province, have signed petition forms in support of the lawsuits against former dictator Jiang Zemin. It was Jiang who first ordered the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.

An additional 1,577 people had already signed the petition forms in the period between September 28^th and October 26^th, 2015.

Some of the 5,215 signatures recently gathered in Changsha City in support of lawsuits against Jiang.

More than 2,000 people who signed the petition also renounced their memberships in the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates.