(Minghui.org) A 62-year-old woman from Taiyuan City has been arrested and detained since September 2015 for filing a criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese dictator. She is now facing trial.
A sentence would not be for the first time, because Ms. Xia Yilin (夏忆林) was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in September 2001 for distributing informational Falun Gong materials.
Details of Recent Arrest
Ms. Xia had filed a criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin in August 2015 for launching the persecution of Falun Gong.
The police arrested her, her husband, daughter and three-year-old grandson on September 17, 2015 at her house and took them to the police station.
The police recorded Ms. Xia's statement and took her back home to ransack her house. Several personal items were confiscated. Her daughter's house was also ransacked without a search warrant.
Everyone, except Ms. Xia, was released the next day. The police produced a formal document stating that Ms. Xia had been detained in the Taiyuan First Detention Center.
Three Years of Imprisonment
Ms. Xia started practicing Falun Gong in March 1998 and recovered from stomach cancer.
She distributed materials and was arrested by police on October 24, 2000. She was taken to a detention center, where she was beaten for doing the Falun Gong exercises. She was also handcuffed around the clock for seven days.
At the detention center, she met a woman who had committed murder. Everyone shunned that woman, except Ms. Xia, who told her about being a good person by following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She also told her about karmic retribution for bad deeds. Gradually, that inmate regretted her action and did not appeal when she was sentenced.
A sentence of three years imprisonment against Ms. Xia was handed down in September 2001. She tried hiring a lawyer, but was told that no one was allowed to defend a Falun Gong practitioner. Police had not informed the family about the trial, so the family could not attend. Ms. Xia tried to defend herself, but was interrupted constantly by the judge.
After the sentence was handed down, she was taken to the Shanxi Women's Prison, where she was monitored around the clock. When she refused to be “transformed,” the guards deprived the inmates in the same cell of sleep, to assure that they would monitor her as instructed.
She was also not allowed to be in contact with her family for one-and-a-half years. Her parents passed away during that time.
Parties involved in the persecution of Ms. Xia:Zhang Jinsong, police captain, Yingze district police station: +86-135-93156966Zhu, supervisor in-charge of persecuting of Falun Gong in the Yingze District Police Station: +86-351-4033443Rui Binwei, judge, Yingze district court: +86-351-5688073
(More participants in the persecution contact information is available in the original Chinese article.)
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 now allows for citizens to be plaintiffs in criminal cases, and many practitioners are exercising that right to file criminal complaints against the former dictator.
