Report from the French Falun Dafa Information Centre: The President of the Closing Ceremony of China-France Culture Year, Li Changchun, Sued in Paris

On the afternoon of July the 2nd, a lawsuit filed against Mr. Li Changchun, accused of being an accessory to torture, was handed to the Inquisitor of the Superior Republic Court of Paris. The lawsuit was accepted.

As a Committee member of the Central Communist China Political Department, the former Guangdong Province's Committee Secretary Mr. Li Changchun has prepared for the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners even before the 20th of July 1999 and has vigorously helped to sustain the execution of the persecution.

After Falun Gong was formally banned, Li Changchun enthusiastically participated in all kinds of persecution, from the propaganda slandering Falun Gong to the designs of the persecution itself. His high official ranking allowed him to play an important role.

Below are a few statistics about the persecution of Falun Gong in Guangdong Province:

In twenty three cases of validated deaths, Australian citizen Mrs Dai Zhizhen's husband was included. Li Changchun was Guangdong Province's Committee Secretary at the time.

Sixty-three prisons, labour camps, detention centres and mental hospitals directly executed the 610 Office's orders: Illegal arrests, detention at will, brainwashing and torturing to death. At present there is not an accurate number of those persecuted yet, but it is estimated to be about a few thousand.

The China-France Culture Year had reached its climax at the Spring Festival celebrations in January. On Friday night, the China-France Culture Year drew to a close with fireworks at Versailles and with the same conditions of contempt of human rights.

The former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin is the main person responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong. In several countries in North America and Europe, Falun Gong practitioners, through famous human rights lawyers, have all handed lawsuits against genocide and inhumanity to the courts.