(Minghui.org) Ms. Yuan Shuzhe, a resident of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, filed a criminal complaint against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin on June 7, 2015, for the brutal persecution she suffered during the past years.

Ms. Yuan, 52, had been arrested six times and detained seven times. She was detained for more than nine months after her arrest in November 2002. After she was arrested in February 2005, she was given two years of forced labor and detained in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang.

In the labor camp, she suffered various forms of brutal torture, including electric shock, solitary confinement, savage beatings, brutal force-feeding and long-term hanging. She was permanently handicapped as a result.

The details of her suffering are reported in the following articles:

Ms. Yuan Shuzhe Barbarically Persecuted in Masanjia Forced Labor CampMs. Yuan Shuzhe Tortured at Twelfth Police Station in Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province

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 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.