Tortured for Her Belief, Falun Gong Practitioner Sues Former Dictator Jiang Zemin
(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gong Xingcan, an economist from China's Sichuan Province, filed criminal complaints with the Supreme People's Procuratorate against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for launching the persecution of Falun Gong and causing her and her family tremendous physical and mental suffering.
The complaints charge Jiang with genocide, torture, crimes against humanity, deprivation of personal liberty and property, intentional injury, slander, brutal interrogation, and more.
Ms. Gong Xincan
Criminal complaints filed at the Supreme People's Procuratorate
Selected Persecution History
Ms. Gong was an employee of the the Deyang City Postal Bureau of Sichuan Province.
She was illegally detained in a forced labor camp twice, taken to a brainwashing center three times and detained five times.
She was disabled from torture. Her husband, a cancer patient who died in 2003 at the age of 33, was pressured and threatened multiple times by city leaders, 610 Office staff, management from their workplaces, the police substation, local Domestic Security Division and the residential committee.
Arrested and Interrogated in 2009
Ms. Gong was arrested on April 28, 2009 at her work place and taken to the Tianshan Road Police Substation. Then, police ransacked her home and the office at her workplace. They confiscated personal belongings, Falun Gong materials, correspondence with her mother’s lawyer (Ms. Gong's mother was sentenced to four years for practicing Falun Gong), appeal documents on her mother's behalf, a cell phone card, and more.
She was transferred to the Bajiao Township Police Substation at Deyang City, where she was interrogated and fingerprinted. She was taken back to the Tianshan Road Police Station, who demanded that security staff from her workplace take her back to her father.
Related articles about Ms. Gong's persecution from 1999 to 2007.
Additional Persecution News from China- March 20, 2008 (68 Reports) (#2)
Additional Persecution News From China - December 21, 2007 (29 reports) (#17)
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.