(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Yang Hongyan, 45, and her mother Ms. Zhao Yuying, 70, filed a criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin at China's Supreme People's Procuratorate on May 22, 2015.

Ms. Yang Hongyan's express mail receipt for her complaint mailed to the Supreme People's Procuratorate on May 22, 2015

The complaint alleges that Jiang Zemin, former Chinese Communist Party head, is responsible for launching the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, as well as causing tremendous suffering to Ms. Yang and family.

Ms. Yang, her husband and her mother Ms. Zhao escaped and live away from their home to avoid arrest since 2002. They placed their young son in foster care.

Ms. Yand and Ms. Zhao informed the court that they should not have been persecuted for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of belief. They demand that Jiang be brought to justice for violating the Chinese Constitution and singlehandedly starting the persecution of innocent practitioners.

Ms. Yang's Unlawfully Persecution

Ms. Yang recounts: When on my way home, my husband called and asked me to not come home because officers from the Jiuzhan Police Station were ransacking it on March 12, 2002.

My mother Ms. Zhao Yuying was babysitting my eight-year-old son when a police officer broke and entered through a window at around 8 a.m. on March 12. He demanded that my mother tell him if she practices Falun Gong. He then proceeded to ransack our home without a search warrant. After finding Falun Gong materials, he called his supervisor.

A team of police officers and agents from the 610 Office burst into my house within a few minutes. They ransacked the house without showing any identification. My mother was taken to a local police station after 4 p.m.

The police tried to hold my son hostage until they could arrest me and my husband, but he escaped. Some officers stayed at my home to arrest us upon our return for three days. I became homeless and went on the run.

We were destitute, so we put our son in foster care. My son was ridiculed at school, which caused great trauma to his psyche.

Mother Persecuted

In the police station, my mother Ms. Zhao was tied up on a tiger bench and questioned concerning my whereabouts. She was slapped, beaten, and her head was pushed repeatedly against the wall by an officer surnamed Huo. The police also forced her to stand in a semi-squat posture while burning her face and chin with a cigarette lighter.

“If you have a problem with this, you can sue Jiang Zemin, who ordered us to do so. I can beat you even though you are old,” yelled an officer. My mother was illegally detained in the police station for two days.

On her way home from the police station, my mother learned that her home had been ransacked and her husband illegally arrested by officers from the Dagang Township Police Station. The sole reason for the arrest was because a couplet was affixed to the door with the words: “The Buddha-light illuminates everywhere and rectifies all abnormalities.” She had to leave home to avoid being arrested.

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.