Table of Lawsuits Filed Against Former Chinese Leader Jiang Zemin and His Followers by Falun Gong Practitioners around the World (From 2001 to August 2004)

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(Clearwisdom.net)

Since facts regarding the persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang Zemin and his followers have been extensively investigated and verified by international human rights organizations, including the United Nations, it has become a major human rights case receiving extensive attention around the world. People from all walks of life are outraged when they learn that Falun Gong practitioners in China have been subjected to brutal torture of an unprecedented scale and that the abuse has led to injury and death for many practitioners. In order to protect human rights, more than eighty organizations from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia have allied to form the "Global Coalition to Bring Jiang to Justice." In addition, human rights attorneys around the world are coming together to file legal cases in local courts against Jiang Zemin and his followers for their crimes in the persecution of Falun Gong. Below is a list of the legal cases that have been filed around the world.

Target of Global Efforts to Bring Jiang to Justice	Title	Crimes	Country Where the Lawsuit was Filed
Jiang Zemin	Former Chinese President, currently Chairman of Central Military Commission	Genocide, Torture, and Crimes against Humanity	U.S.A. (October 2002)
		Genocide, Torture, and Crimes against Humanity	Belgium (August 2003)
		Genocide and Torture	Spain (October 2003)
		Genocide	Taiwan (November 2003)
		Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, and Torture	Germany (November 2003)
		Genocide	South Korea (December 2003)
		Torture	Greece (August 2004)

Lawsuits against Jiang Zemin's group in the United Nations Human Rights Committee and International Criminal Court

Name of Organization	Defendant	Date Lawsuit Was Filed
United Nations Committee Against Torture	Jiang Zemin, Zeng Qinghong and the 610 Office	October 2002
International Criminal Court	Jiang Zemin, Zeng Qinghong and the "610 Office"	October 2002
United Nations Human Rights Committee	All Chinese government officials participating in the persecution	February 2004

Table of lawsuits around the world against Chinese Communist Party Officials participating in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners

#	Chinese Communist Party Official	Title	Crime	Country Where Lawsuit was Filed
1	Zhou Yongkang	Former Provincial Party Secretary of Sichuan Province	Torture, Crimes against Humanity	U.S.A. (August 2001)
2	Zhao Zhifei	Chief of the Public Security Office in Hubei Province	Torture, Crimes against Humanity	U.S.A. (June 2001) Defendant was pronounced guilty
			Genocide, Torture, Crimes against Humanity	Germany (November 2003)
3	Liu Qi	Former Mayor of Beijing	Genocide, Crimes against Humanity	U.S.A. (February 2002)
4	Xia Deren	Deputy Provincial Party Secretary of Liaoning Province	Genocide, Crimes against Humanity	U.S.A. (February 2002)
5	Wu Guanzheng	Former Deputy Provincial Party Secretary of Shandong Province	Genocide, Torture, Crimes against Humanity	Cyprus (October 2003)
6	Bo Xilai	Minister of Commerce	Genocide, Torture, Crimes against Humanity	U.S.A. (April 2004)
			Torture	U.K. (April 2004)
			Torture, Crimes against Humanity	Poland (May 2004)
			Genocide, Torture, Crimes against Humanity	Russia (August 2004)
7	Sun Jiazheng	Minister of Culture	Accomplice to Torture	France (January 2004)
8	Wang Yusheng	Deputy Board Chairman of the "Chinese Anti-Cult Association" (CACA)	Torture	Switzerland (April 2004)
9	Wang Taihua	Provincial Party Secretary of Anhui Province	Torture, Crimes against Humanity	U.S.A. (May 2004)
10	Liang Guanjun	Head of the Confederation of Chinese Associations in New York	Assault	U.S.A. (July 2003)
11	Wang Xudong	Minister of Information, the former Provincial Party Secretary of Hebei Province	Torture	U.S.A. (June 2004)
12	Li Changchun	Member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Politburo	Torture	France (July 2004)
13	Zhao Zhizhen	Former Director of Wuhan Radio and Television Bureau	Inciting torture and genocide, Inciting hatred	U.S.A. (July 2004)
14	Chen Zhili	Former Minister of Education, currently State Councilor	Torture, Genocide	Tanzania (July 2004)

Table of lawsuits around the world against the "Leadership Team to Deal with the Falun Gong Problem" (or the "610 Office") and its leaders

Defendant	Title	Crime	Country Where Lawsuit was Filed
"610 Office"		Genocide, Torture, Crimes against Humanity	U.S.A. (October 2002)
Li Lanqing	Former Chinese State Council Vice-Premier	Torture	France (December 2002)
		Genocide, Torture, Crimes against Humanity	Belgium (August 2003)
		Genocide	Taiwan (November 2003)
		Genocide, Torture, Crimes against Humanity	Germany (November 2003)
Luo Gan	Member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Politburo	Genocide, Torture, Crimes against Humanity	Belgium (August 2003)
		Genocide, Torture	Finland (September 2003)
		Genocide, Torture	Armenia (September 2003)
		Genocide, Torture	Moldova (September 2003)
		Genocide, Torture, Crimes against humanity	Iceland (September 2003)
		Genocide, Torture	Spain (October 2003)
		Genocide	Taiwan (November 2003)
		Genocide, Torture, Crimes against Humanity	Germany (November 2003)
		Genocide	South Korea (December 2003)

Lawsuits around the world against Chinese Embassies and Consulates by Falun Gong practitioners

Crime	Country
Physical assault and battery, malicious destruction of property and vandalism, premeditated invasion of privacy	U.S.A. (April 2002)
Harassment	Indonesia (April 2002)
Defamation	Germany (December 2003)
Defamation of character (Li Bin, Chinese Ambassador in Korea, Zhang Xin, Chinese Consul General, and five other Chinese consular officials)	Korea (March 2004)
Libel (Pan Xin Chun, Chinese Deputy Consul General)	Canada (August 2003) The defendant was found guilty in December 2003.

For more details and updates about the lawsuits, please refer to the websites http://www.zhengdao.org and http://www.flgjustice.org.

August 20, 2004
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/8/21/82289.html

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