(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 Minghui website receives copies of these criminal complaints from many practitioners daily. In this report, we present a snapshot of three practitioners whose copies of lawsuits were received by Minghui on July 20, 2015.
Their 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.
Ms. Meng Zhaohong, a nurse, was arrested six times, detained three times, and put in a forced labor camp twice for three years and in prison for four years.
Mr. Li Zhihu, an engineer, was arrested twice. Once he was put in a forced labor camp and tortured for two months before being released on medical bail. He was put in a mental hospital twice and injected with unknown drugs every day.
Mr. Zhou Guisen, a teacher and principal, was arrested four times, detained three times for over 100 days, and tortured in a forced labor camp twice for 2.5 years and in a brainwashing center three times for over 100 days.
Profession: Former nurseHometown: Tahe County, Heilongjiang ProvinceDate filed: Not specified
Key Facts: She appealed for the right to practice Falun Gong in Beijing in November 1999 and was arrested and detained for three months. Nine days later she was arrested again and detained for three months, leaving her 10-year-old daughter on her own. She went to Beijing to appeal again in July 2000 and was put in a forced labor camp for a year.
In August 2001 she was arrested, detained and tortured in Jiagedaqi Detention Center. Her ring finger was broken, her esophagus was damaged, and stomach hemorrhaged when she was force-fed. Her food consisted of moldy chicken feed. She was transferred to Shuanghe Forced Labor Camp in 2002 for two years.
Before the Beijing Olympics in 2008 the Tahe police ransacked her home and put her in Heilongjiang Women's Prison for four years. She was beaten, not given enough clothing or heat in the winters, and forced to sit still on a small stool for 18 hours each day until her buttocks festered. Her legs were severely swollen and her lymph nodes got infected and festered. Her weight dropped from 117lbs to 77lbs. Her hair turned gray and she could barely walk. She was released in July 2012.
Current Situation: She was put in Heilongjiang Women's Prison in December 2008 and released on July 22, 2012. It's not clear where she is now.
Details of complaint in Chinese:http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2015/7/20/遭迫害一度生命垂危-秦皇岛护士控告元凶江泽民-312738.html
Profession: Former engineer from the Powder Metallurgy Institute of the Mid-Southern Technology UniversityHometown: Changsha City, Hunan ProvinceDate filed: June 30, 2015
Key Facts: The police arrested and beat Mr. Li in September 2007 for distributing Falun Gong literature. He was put in Changsha Detention Center and forced to do manual labor 12 hours a day for a month.
In October the police arbitrarily sentenced him to 15 months for "disturbing social order" and sent him to Xinkaipu Forced Labor Camp. He had to sit still on a small stool for hours each day and had to do manual labor. His blood pressure became dangerously high (100/240 mmHg) and he was released on medical bail in December.
In December 2008 three men broke into his house, injected him with unknown drugs, and took him to a mental hospital. He was tied down, injected with nerve-damaging drugs every day, and denied food and toilet use. He was released three weeks later.
Current Situation: Mr. Liu's whereabouts after his release was not clear.
Details of complaint in Chinese:http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2015/7/20/被监狱、精神病院摧残-中南大学退休工程师控告江泽民-312727.html
Profession: Former teacher and principal in an elementary schoolHometown: Yishui County, Shandong ProvinceDate filed: Not available
Key Facts: Mr. Zhou was arrested four times, detained three times for over 100 days, and tortured in a forced labor camp twice for 2.5 years and in a brainwashing center three times for over 100 days.
Current Circumstances: Mr. Zhou was allowed to go back to work in March 2014 with a demerit record and being paid minimal wage
Related Report(s)Elementary School Teacher Zhou Guisen from Yishui County, Shandong Province Illegally Imprisoned
Details of complaint in Chinese:http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2015/7/20/山东沂水县小学校长控告迫害元凶江泽民-312737.html
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.