(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhou Hongjie filed criminal complaints on June 29, 2015, against Jiang Zemin, the former head of the communist regime, with the Chinese Supreme People's Court and the Chinese Supreme People's Procuratorate.
In this filing, Mr. Zhou from Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, stated that Jiang launched the persecution of Falun Gong. During this persecution, Mr. Zhou has suffered arrest, detention, and torture, with the latest arrest taking place in December 2015.
June 2015: Arrested and Tortured
Mr. Zhou was arrested in Chengdu on December 21, 2015, along with four other practitioners.
He was interrogated and tortured that night. The police slapped his face, struck his head, kicked his legs, and stomped on his feet. Mr. Zhou vomited blood, felt intense pain, and could barely walk by the next day.
Police tried to have the practitioners held in a detention center. However, Mr. Zhou and two of the practitioners did not pass the physical exam and were released.
The police arrested Mr. Zhou again two days later, but he was eventually released.
January to April 2001: Electric Shock in Detention Center
Mr. Zhou said in his filings that he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong a few years after the onset of the persecution. He was arrested and taken to the Guangyuan Detention Center on January 4, 2001.
A police officer and an official from his factory took him to an interrogation room. They stripped off his clothes and handcuffed him. One wrapped a towel around the handcuffs and moved it up and down.
The other shocked his head, mouth, underarms, waist, chest, and neck with an electric baton. One could smell the burned flesh. They continued until the towel was torn and the handcuffs had cut into his wrists.
“They got tired,” Mr. Zhou said. “However, because I refused to give up Falun Gong, they started a second round of torture. One kept slapping my face and shocking me, and the other kept kicking my private area. When they took me back to the detention center, the police officer demanded that I say that my injuries happened because of a fall.”
Beginning May 2001: Beatings in Forced Labor Camp
He was taken to the Xinhua Forced Labor Camp in May 2001. The camp demanded that inmates' heads be shaved. He refused because he was not a criminal.
Several inmates pushed his head to the ground, pulled his feet up in the air, and stepped on his back.
“I said that I was a Falun Gong practitioner who was unlawfully imprisoned. They did not care. After I fell, they dragged me inside by my legs, pulled off my shirt, and tied my arms behind my back. One stepped on my back and kept pulling the rope. The rope cut into my flesh. After a while they loosened the rope.”
The guards and inmates made him stand for long periods of time, either in freezing weather or under the baking sun. They also deprived him of sleep.
Because he was unable to walk on the day of his release, the camp extended his detention by a few days until he could walk.
January 2003: Released and Arrested Again
“I was released in January 2003,” said Mr. Zhou. “The night I returned home, several police officers showed up and asked me about Falun Gong. I told them that Falun Gong teaches people to be good.”
The police arrested him again and took him to the Guangyuan Detention Center for 25 days.
After his release, the police took him to a hotel room for a day. A police officer demanded that he sign a statement renouncing Falun Gong, which he refused to do, so they detained him for another 20 days. After that they took him to a forced labor camp for another year.
Mr. Zhou's health quickly deteriorated. He frequently vomited blood, and he lost more than 30 pounds. He was given a checkup and diagnosed with late-stage tuberculosis.
“Guards took me to a hospital and forced me to have intravenous injections,” he said. “One day two nurses injected me with unknown drugs. Halfway through the injection, I felt great pain in my heart and lower back, as if something was stabbing me. I pulled the tube out and could not move for a long time.”
A month later, the authorities took him back to his workplace. He was held in a room next to the on-duty office, so that he would always be under observation.
Benefiting from Practicing Falun Gong
Mr. Zhou stated in his lawsuit, “I used to be of poor health and was diagnosed with different illnesses. I was searching for a scenic but remote place, where I would end my life.”
He began to practice Falun Gong on May 1, 1998. Shortly after, he experienced great physical and mental changes and recovered from his illnesses.
“My moral standard improved,” he said. “I used to keep precious metals in my personal tool cabinets after working on them. Since I follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, I returned them to our supply officer.”
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.
