Spain: Falun Gong Practitioners File a Lawsuit against Jiang (Photos)
(Clearwisdom.net) On Wednesday October 15 at Spain's National Court, La
Audiencia Naciaonal, Falun Gong practitioners launched a lawsuit against the
ex-president of China Jiang Zemin, charging him with crimes of torture and
genocide in his persecution of Falun Gong. According to a report from The Epoch Times, lawyer Carlos Iglesias
formally handed the penal lawsuit against the ex-president of China Jiang Zemin
and the head of the "610 Office" Luo Gan to the Spanish Court in
Madrid on October 15. The lawsuit charged them with torture and genocide. After
the lawsuit was handed in, the lawsuit complainants and the lawyer held a press
conference. According to a report from Reuters, lawyer Carlos Iglesias gave the
following statement at the press conference: "Because of Jiang Zemin's
crimes of torture and genocide against Falun Gong, he has been sued today. In
the last 4 years, what is probably the biggest violation of human rights since
the Second World War has been occurring in China." He went on to say, "The purpose of this lawsuit is to stop the
persecution and guarantee that the crimes committed against Falun Gong
practitioners will receive appropriate punishment. Since the start of the
persecution in 1999, there have been between 800 and 2,000 Falun Gong
practitioners tortured to death and approximately 200,000 sent to labor
camps." The lawsuit had 15 complainants from China, USA, Australia, Belgium and
Spain. One of the complainants, Australian citizen Zhizhen Dai, said that her
husband was murdered two and a half years ago merely because he went to Beijing
to hand in a letter saying that Falun Gong is good. He was detained, jailed,
tortured and then murdered by the Chinese police. This lady held her 3-year-old
daughter and told her stories to the media via translation. Reuters said that according to Spanish law, the judge has the right to
hear about lawsuits concerning worldwide human rights violations. The
prosecutors hoped to take advantage of this point to sue Jiang Zemin. The court
that received the lawsuit has a judge called Baltasar Garzon who is famous for
his role in the trial of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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