(Minghui.org) A Tangyuan County resident was tried on March 22 for distributing information about lawsuits against Jiang Zemin that charge the former Chinese dictator with launching the persecution of Falun Gong.
Mr. Wan Shuqing was taken into custody on July 28, 2015 and initially given a 15-day detention. The authorities, however, refused to release him when his term was up. He has remained in custody since then.
Mr. Wan's lawyer met with him on September 24 and learned that he was beaten during an interrogation session on August 8. Three officers slapped him in the face when he refused to answer their questions. His ears were injured in the process.
The lawyer filed a complaint about the police brutality the next day, but hasn't received any response yet.
As the details of the trial remain to be investigated at this point, it is not clear whether the lawyer was allowed to defend her client at the hearing.
Prior to Mr. Wang's latest arrest, he had been repeatedly detained and physically abused in the past for refusing to renounce his faith in Falun Gong. While jailed at Jiamusi Prison in 2011, he was once beaten to the point of losing hearing in his left ear.
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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.
