Snapshot of Falun Gong Practitioners Whose Copies of Lawsuits Against Jiang Zemin Were Received by Minghui on September 15, 2015

(Minghui.org) Many Falun Gong practitioners are now exercising their legal right to sue Jiang Zemin for launching the persecution of Falun Gong and causing them great harm and tremendous suffering during the past 16 years. The momentum of this new wave of lawsuits against the former Chinese dictator is on the rise.

The Minghui website receives copies of criminal complaints against Jiang from many practitioners daily. In this report, we present a snapshot of some of the practitioners whose copies of lawsuits were received by Minghui on September 15, 2015.

These lawsuits are mailed to the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, which are required to process all criminal complaints filed by citizens, as of a recent ruling by the Supreme People's Court.

Practitioners in this report were repeatedly arrested, had their homes ransacked, were subjected to brainwashing, imprisoned, tortured, forced to perform hard unpaid labor for long hours daily, force-fed, and deprived of food, and sleep.

These practitioners came from various backgrounds, with one being a medical doctor, the other a retired railway worker and the third case history is about a small business owner.

The medical doctor was removed from his job after his release from prison. The family of the railway worker was extorted a total of 60,000 yuan and her husband divorced her. The entire family of the business owner were practitioners and they all suffered from the persecution. She tried to escape, but was caught and subjected to intensified torture. The authorities also took over her home for a pittance and then demolished it.

Case 1: Practitioner Mr. Bai Yujun (白玉君)

Profession: DoctorHometown: Baiyin City, Gansu ProvinceDate filed: August 24, 2015.

Key Facts

Mr. Bai was first arrested in 2002. Police slapped his face and deprived him of sleep. He was held in Lanzhou City No. 1 Forced Labor Camp, Gansu Province for a year. Guards ordered drug addicts to beat and insult him. He was forced to perform hard labor and was deprived of food.

He was released in April 2003. However, police and the Employee General Hospital of Jinyuan Coal Industry Group, his employer, immediately transferred him to a brainwashing center for two months. He was put on a tiger bench, a torture instrument, for refusing to give up Falun Gong.

Mr. Bai was arrested at work in April, 2008 again. Police ransacked his home. He was detained for over a year before being sentenced to three years in prison. At Lanzhou Prison, Mr. Bai was brainwashed, beaten, insulted, threatened and he was forced to weave rugs. After he went on a hunger strike to protest the torture, guards force-fed him.

His employer demanded that he pay their portion of the medical insurance and pension contribution. The hospital removed him from his position and reduced his salary after his release from prison.

Current CircumstancesMr. Bai Yujun is free at home.

Details of complaint in Chinese language

Case 2: Practitioner Ms. Song Chunyuan (宋春媛)

Profession: Retired railway workerHometown: Tahe City, Heilongjiang ProvinceDate filed: July 11, 2015

Key Facts

Ms. Song was arrested five times and sentenced to prison for four years.

She was first arrested in July 2000 when she appealed for justice for Falun Gong in Beijing. She was detained, deprived of sleep, and fined around 10,000 yuan.

She was arrested in February 2001 and detained 49 days.

Her husband divorced her because he could no longer bear the pressure when she was arrested in June 2003. She was sentenced to three years in prison. After she was diagnosed with a swollen kidney, she was released on medical parole after her family was extorted 30,000 yuan.

Then, she was arrested in January 2010. Authorities gave her two years of forced labor, but she did not pass the health exam. She was released on medical parole after her family was extorted 20,000 yuan.

She was arrested in April 2011 for the fifth time. This time she was sentenced to a four-year prison term. At Harbin Women's Prison, she was forced to sit on a small stool every day and not allowed to go to the restrooms despite her kidney problems. She was hospitalized for 100 days, where she was forced to sit on a small.

Current CircumstancesMs. Song is free at home.

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Details of complaint in Chinese language

Case 3: Practitioner Ms. Li Chunhuan (李春环)

Profession: Small Business OwnerHometown: Shulan City, Jilin ProvinceDate filed: June 29, 2015

Key Facts

Ms. Li was arrested for going to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in November 1999. Police ransacked her home and detained her for 43 days.

She went to Beijing to appeal again in November 2000. She was arrested and beaten. When detained in the Changchun Heizui Forced Labor Camp, Jilin Province, she was beaten, deprived of sleep, forced to stand or squat for a long time, perform hard labor from between 18 to 22 hours, among other tortures. She was released in March 2002.

Police broke into Ms. Li's home on September 20, 2002. They arrested her husband and sister and confiscated over 10,000 yuan. Ms. Li tried to escape, but fell into a water ditch. She later managed to escape from the police station. She was put on the wanted list.

Police arrested her in Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province in 2003. They brutally beat her and tortured her with the tiger bench method. She jumped off the third floor to escape, but police caught her and and intensified the torture. She was again in critical condition.

The hospital diagnosed her with a spine fracture, spinal compression, and foot bone fracture. Detention centers refused to take her, fearing that she might die anytime. Eventually she was accepted by Jilin No. 3 Detention Center where she was tortured. She went on a hunger strike to protest the torture, but the guards force-fed her. She was close to death after she was fed a large quantity of salt. She was released on medical parole.

Police arrested her again in March 2004. She went on a hunger strike and was force-fed. Again, she was released once she was in critical condition.

Ms. Li's family was torn apart. Her brothers and sister, and their spouses all practice Falun Gong and were persecuted by the communist regime. Her husband and sister were sentenced to 11 and 8 years in prison, respectively.

The authorities also demolished Ms. Li's home. When she was imprisoned in 2001, officials demanded that her parents sell the house to the government for a pittance and demolished it.

Current CircumstancesMs. Li is free at home, with a broken family.

Details of complaint in Chinese language

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.