By a French practitioner

(Clearwisdom.net) On July 21, 2006, the French Falun Dafa Association, on behalf of three Falun Gong practitioners as the plaintiffs, filed a complaint with the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris to sue Zhou Yongkang, the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Minister of Public Security and State Council Member of China, the former CCP General Secretary of Sichuan Province. The complaint alleges that Zhou Yongkang bears direct responsibility for the crimes of torture against Falun Gong practitioners in China. The Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris received the three complaints.

Delivering the complaints to the court

The three complaints officially accepted by the court

The three plaintiff are Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Ying Dai, living in Norway, and Mr. Heping Li and Ms. Zhengfang Mo, living in the UK.

Ms. Dai was the wife of a multi-millionaire in Shenzhen City. Due to practicing Falun Gong, she was illegally sentenced to three years in a labor camp. After that, she was sentenced again for another two years in a labor camp. During the periods of serving the sentences from March 2000 to January 2003, and from March 2003 to October 2004, Ms. Dai experienced extremely severe persecution and was in danger of losing her life. The CCP regime had to release her early due to her precarious physical condition. Ms Dai had been deprived of personal freedom for nearly four and a half years. During these periods of incarceration, she was subjected to brutal tortures and she has lost sight in her left eye, while her right eye has only 0.1 vision left due to prolonged electric shocks to her temples. The forced-feeding Ms. Dai experienced resulted in blood-spurting out of her mouth and nose. Male and female police officers stripped her and twenty other female Falun Gong practitioners of their clothes. She also suffered other abuse including sleep deprivation and brainwashing, and was forced to do hard labor.

Ms. Zhengfang Mo was arrested in Beijing in December 1999 due to appealing to the Beijing authorities for justice for Falun Gong. During the period of the illegal detention, she was beaten by the police from her hometown of Chengdu, Sichuan Province. At that time she was eight months pregnant.

Mr. Heping Li, a graduate of Chongqing University, was imprisoned in Shiliping Forced Labor Camp in Zhenjiang Province from August 2001 to June 2003 because of practicing Falun Gong. He was subjected to tortures including sleep deprivation, injection with harmful drugs, threats and other abuse. Both his body and mind were very much damaged by the severe persecution.

The defendant, Zhou Yongkang, was appointed as the CCPˇ¦s general secretary of Sichuan Province from December 1999 to December 2002. During his tenure, Zhou actively ordered and directly participated in the persecution of Falun Gong and made

Sichuan one of the provinces known for the most severe persecution of Falun Gong in China. He was noted for slandering Falun Gong on various significant occasions many times, and also rewarded and encouraged individuals and departments of the Sichuan police who actively carried out the persecution of Falun Gong. He even gave specific suggestions to some department to deploy persecution methods against Falun Gong. On August 27, 2001, while visiting the US, Zhou was sued for the crimes of torture and crimes against humanity. Zhou Yongkang was accused under the "Torture Victims Protection Act" and the "Alien Tort Claims Act." The indictment was filed by a thirty-six-year-old Boston resident, Mr. Haiying He.

Although Zhou Yongkang did not have any work experience in the public security field, he closely followed Jiang Zemingˇ¦s policy of persecuting Falun Gong. Therefore he was promoted to the post of Minister of Public Security of China in December 2002, and also appointed as the deputy-director of the Social Safety Comprehensive Administration Committee of the central government, and the deputy CCP General Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the central government. All of these titles give him full power to persecute Falun Gong.

According to an investigation report into the 610 Office by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, the 610 Office is subordinate to the Political and Legal Committee. The Political and Legal Committee has authority over the Public Security, the Judicature, Education and the Culture Departments.

In December 2002, Zhou Yongkang took the post of Public Security Minister. At the beginning of his term, he continuously made speeches at nationwide videophone meetings to the police system and at conferences to high-level officials in the national police system, to drive the persecution of Falun Gong. He also made use of the opportunities of surveillance throughout the country to emphasize the "strict guarding" and "strict striking" against Falun Gong. Zhou Yongkang, using the title of Public Security Minister, also made recommendations and gave material rewards to those individuals and groups who were actively involved in the persecution of Falun Gong.

In addition, under the excuse of carrying out "comprehensive maintenance of social public security," "striking the hostile influences inside and outside China," "anti-terrorism," and "maintaining stability," Zhou Yongkang many times coerced and made use of the police and judicial systems to conduct the persecution of Falun Gong, which resulted in the steady escalation of the persecution. Since December 2002, the numbers of confirmed and documented cases of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted to death rapidly increased from over 600 to approximately 3,000.

In summary, Zhou Yongkang is directly responsible for the crimes of the persecution of Falun Gong in Sichuan Province as well as nationwide, including the brutal persecution of the three plaintiffs.

The French Falun Dafa Association informed the public media after handing in the complaints to the court. Agence France Presse (AFP) published a report immediately, and several important media reprinted or contacted Falun Gong practitioners to express their concern. The Chinese Department of Radio France International (RFI) promptly broadcast the story twice in their report to mainland China and the greater Paris area.
The Falun Gong practitionersˇ¦ lawsuit against Zhou Yongkang enormously frightened the evil regime and gives a warning to those people who are still persecuting Falun Gong: Stop doing evil and be responsible for your own futures.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200607/34559.html

Posting date: 8/2/2006
Original article date: 8/1/2006
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/7/24/133813.html

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