(Minghui.org) Officers from the Zhoukoudian Police Station in Beijng went to Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Yang's home on November 19, 2015, and arrested him for filing criminal complaints against Jiang Zemin.

Jiang, the former head of the Chinese communist regime, launched the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.

The same offices also arrested his mother, Ms. Chen Yuzhen, who was at his brother's home.

Mr. Yang and her mother filed complaints with the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme People's Court. They described the physical and mental benefits they had received from practicing Falun Gong, and the persecution they suffered since the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong.

They were taken to the Fangshan District Detention Center, and have been held there for the past two weeks.

Mr. Yang and his brother are taxi drivers, and Mr. Yang's wife is a homemaker. They have a two year-old son. The family lost their financial wherewithal after Mr. Yang's arrest.

His brother has not earned a living for the past two weeks either, as he is involved in the rescue of his mother and brother.

Background

In 1999, Jiang Zemin, as head of the Chinese Communist Party, overrode other members of the Politburo Standing Committee and launched the violent suppression of Falun Gong.

The persecution has led to the deaths of many Falun Gong practitioners over 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 communist regime established an extralegal security organization, 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 its citizens to be plaintiffs in criminal cases, and many practitioners are now exercising that right to file criminal complaints against the former dictator.