On Monday, 29 Septemember 2003, plaintiffs in Falun Gong v. Jiang Zemin (and the “6-10 Office”) filed legal papers charging Jiang Zemin with crimes of extensive corruption and urged the Court to hold him responsible for committing genocide against Falun Gong for his own private benefit – to consolidate his power base, enhance his stature,…
The World Organization Against Torture USA supports the continuation of the investigation under the Belgian Universal Jurisdiction law of criminal charges concerning Jiang Zemin, the former President of China and two of his senior colleagues, Luo Gan and Li Lanqing. These charges include genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes of torture. It is important to…
Jiang Zemin is facing another lawsuit. In Australia, after Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Cuiying announced her intent to launch legal action against Jiang Zemin in her own name, practitioners in Sydney decided to bring forward a class action lawsuit against Jiang in Australian Federal Court. Currently, the case is in the stage of consultation…
Today in a criminal lawsuit, the man in charge of the “6-10 Office”, Luo Gan, who is on a two-day visit to Iceland, has been charged with crimes of torture, genocide and crimes against humanity. The lawsuit was filed September 8 with the State Criminal Prosecutor in Iceland.
AN Australian resident subjected to torture and persecution in China is to have her case championed in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights by eminent human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson.
A range of civil actions against Jiang Zemin and his persecution of Falun Gong members are under way internationally, but Ms Zhang’s case…
Ms Zhang has been away from her Bankstown home in Australia on a world tour since
May 2001. She has exhibited in over 40 countries and well over 100 cities. Being
in Australia for just over one month, she has already begun her latest tour, exhibiting
her traditional Chinese paintings in different districts throughout New…
Our lawsuit is the 11th international lawsuit to emerge in the last two years against Chinese government officials or entities for their role in the persecution of Falun Gong. Three of these lawsuits in the United States have already handed down judgments against Chinese officials for torture and other crimes committed in the persecution of…
International lawyer Geoffrey Robertson met with lawyers Chris Nyst and
Jason Murakami on the Gold Coast this week to outline their UN strategy.
Currently there are many discussions around the case of Jiang Zemin being sued in Chicago. Two questions raised by some in the US are particularly interesting. One question is that as Jiang is being sued in the US, if the US government supports the lawsuit against him, would the US president be susceptible to being…
In Western societies, many people believe it was the Chinese government’s decision to persecute Falun Gong, and that after Jiang was no longer in power, his influence would remain the same. Is this the reality? Some facts are listed below to provide a brief discussion of this issue:
At 10 AM CST of 12 June 2003, the United States District Court Northern District of Illinois concluded its hearing and ruled to accept the Amicus brief signed and submitted by more than three dozen members of U.S. Congress, asking the Court to continue proceedings for the case.
In a joint letter to Illinois Members of Congress, 80 Illinois state representatives urged their federal counter-parts to “vigorously support” the class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Illinois against former Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin.