(Minghui.org) Many Falun Gong practitioners are now exercising their legal rights 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 lawsuits were received by Minghui on September 3, 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.
Brutal Torture in Prison Has Left Many Practitioners with Health Problems
Detained and imprisoned numerous times, many practitioners developed health problems resulting from torture. Ms. Du Shuming developed urinary incontinence, and and her sister Ms. Du Shuhui developed epilepsy and cholescystitis. They are still imprisoned.
Mr. Liu Yalin had extremely high blood pressure after being forced to do hard labor in prison. He showed signs of stroke and could not walk on his own.
1: Mr. Yang Jiangwei (杨将威)
Profession: TechnicianHometown: Suizhong County, Liaoning ProvinceDate filed: July 3, 2015
Key Facts: Mr. Yang's elderly parents are suing Jiang Zemin for their son's 12 years of suffering in prison. Mr. Yang has been detained three times in forced labor camps and imprisoned for seven and a half years. His family was denied visitation many times during these periods.
Mr. Yang was brutally tortured and in critical condition in May 2003. He was taken to the hospital for major surgery. Before he had recovered, the officers ordered the doctors to remove the stitches so that they could take him back to the labor camp for force-feeding every day.
In 2012, to try to get Mr. Yang to renounce his belief, the prison guards used an electric heater to roast him until his hip was burned and an ulcer developed.
Current Circumstances: Five years ago, Mr. Yang was arrested with his wife one month after they married. He was sentenced to a ten-year prison term, and is now in Nanguanling Prison in Dalian.
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Details of complaint in Chinese
2: Ms. Dai Miaochang (戴妙嫦)
Profession: HousewifeHometown: Chaozhou City, Guangdong ProvinceDate filed: July 2, 2015
Key Facts: Ms. Dai has been arrested and detained seven times over the past 16 years. She was tortured in a detention center, drug rehabilitation center, brainwashing center, and prison.
Ms. Dai was held in a mental hospital in 2007, and given unknown drugs that made her mentally disordered for a period of time. She was sentenced to three years in prison in 2011. While imprisoned she was injected with unknown substances that slowed her thinking and caused dizziness.
Details of complaint in Chinese
3: Mr. Zhang Guoqing (张国清)
Profession: Retired TeacherHometown: Baoding City, Hebei ProvinceDate filed: Recently, date not specified
Key Facts: Mr. Zhang went to Beijing in July 1999 to protest the persecution, hoping to tell the leaders how he had benefited from practicing Falun Gong. He was detained, and brutally tortured. In particular, he was shocked with electric batons.
The police pushed his head against the wall in 2003, put a burning cigarette under his nose, and shocked his sensitive body parts with electric batons. He subsequently passed out. After he regained consciousness, he was handcuffed to a metal grid for 21 days.
Despite the torture, Mr. Zhang refused to renounce his belief, so he was shocked with electric batons for an entire morning, bringing him close to death. He was shocked again when he regained consciousness.
Details of complaint in Chinese
4: Ms. Du Shuming (杜淑明) and Ms. Du Shuhui (杜淑慧), Sisters
Profession: Ms. Du Shuming's profession is unknown; Ms. Du Shuhui was an accountant.Hometown: Mian County, Shanxi ProvinceDate filed: Recently, date not specified
Key Facts: Ms. Du Shuming and Ms. Du Shuhui have been arrested and detained at least five times. They were last arrested on September 26, 2013, at their home. Shuming was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, and Shuhui to eight years.
During numerous detentions, Ms. Du Shuming was deprived of sleep, deprived of warm clothing in the winter, and shocked with electric batons, which injured her liver. In addition, she was forced to perform manual labor. The persecution left her with urinary incontinence.
Ms. Du Shuhui was beaten many times while detained. The guards banged her head against the wall, ground, and metal bed, injuring her head, which led to epilepsy. In 2006, she was taken to a hospital for treatment of cholecystitis and gallstones, after being tortured to extract a confession.
Current Circumstances: The two sisters' family member visited them in prison on August 25, 2015. It was the first visit since the sisters were detained in 2013. The two had been reduced to skin and bones, and looked like they were in their eighties. They needed assistance to walk.
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Details of complaint in Chinese
5: Mr. Liu Yalin (刘亚林)
Profession: UnknownHometown: Dadukou District, Chongqing CityDate filed: June 17, 2015
Key Facts: Mr. Liu was arrested four times for practicing Falun Gong. His last arrest led to three and a half years in prison. He was in critical condition twice during two of the detentions.
Mr. Liu was in critical condition after his second arrest in June 2000. He was tortured for refusing to sign a guarantee statement renouncing his belief. To resist the persecution, he went on a hunger strike and was force-fed, causing his teeth to fall out. He was also forced to do manual labor.
After his arrest in 2007, Mr. Liu was sentenced to prison. He was forced to do hard labor, including carrying coal, even though he had become very skinny from being provided with only small portions of rice soup every day, as his teeth had all fallen out. He developed extremely high blood pressure, which lead to symptoms of a stroke, blurry vision, dizziness, numbness in his limbs, and asthma. He was also unable to walk on his own.
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Details of complaint in Chinese
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 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 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.
