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• Article from Belgian Newspaper “Het Belang Van Limburg”: Falun Gong files a Complaint against Jiang Zemin

  2003-09-01
  In 1999 Jiang, now ex-president of China started a suppression campaign against Falun Gong practitioners. Hundreds of thousands were arrested, more than 500 sentenced to long imprisonments. According to Belgian Falun Gong practitioners, more then 750 of their Chinese colleagues died during the repression.
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• Belgian TV Programme AVS Reports on the Lawsuit against Jiang

  2003-08-31
  “We hope that an in-depth investigation can take place and that, through this, it will become clear how Jiang Zemin is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people and that he will be sentenced. Not only in Belgium, but also by the international community.”
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• Agence France Presse (AFP): Falun Gong [Practitioner] to go to UN with Claims she was Tortured by China (photo)

  2003-08-31
  'An Australian [practitioner] of the Falun Gong spiritual movement who claims she was tortured in China is to mount a case in the UN Commission on Human Rights against former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, her lawyers said. Chinese artist Zhang Cui Ying, 41, says she was tortured and abused after being arrested and jailed because of her beliefs by Chinese authorities.'
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• FDI: Lawsuit Against Jiang -- Western Media Pay Attention, Chinese Media Reaction Low-key

  2003-08-31
  When the lawsuit against Jiang was filed in a U.S. district court last October, the Chinese government never responded to court subpoena(s); instead, they tried through diplomatic channels to pressure the U.S. government to stop the lawsuit. The plaintiffs' attorney Terry Marsh said, "The defendant has not responded to the lawsuit through legal means; instead, they tried to reject it through diplomatic means."
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• EFGIC: “Pride of China” Dies from Extended Torture in Chinese Prison

  2003-08-30
  After ten months of severe torture, a female practitioner of Falun Gong who faced the Chinese regime’s persecution of her faith with “dignity and peaceful resilience,” died in a women’s prison camp on July 19, 2003, according to reports.
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• Belgian Practitioner Interviewed on National TV about the Genocide Lawsuit against Jiang

  2003-08-30
  "The first complaint of the new genocide law that has only just been enacted has been filed this morning in Brussels by 6 practitioners of Falun Gong. Meanwhile, others have been demonstrating how they meditate in Falun Gong in front of the court building. The Chinese government have been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners systematically, torturing them and even killing them since 1999 under the order of the then leader, Jiang Zemin.”
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• "Le Soir" (Belgian newspaper): Under Universal Jurisdiction, Six Falun Gong Practitioners filed a Lawsuit

  2003-08-29
  'A new international lawsuit has been filed in Belgium. This is a new challenge to Belgium’s universal jurisdiction. Six Falun Gong practitioners filed a lawsuit in Brussels, accusing the former leader of the People’s Republic of China, Jiang Zemin, former vice premier of the State Council, Li Lanqing, and deputy director of “610” office, of being responsible for suppressing Falun Gong.'
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• "Gazet van Antwerpen" (Belgian newspaper): Citizen of Ghent Submits Complaint Against China

  2003-08-29
  'Chinese head of state Jiang Zemin and two other leaders based on genocide, crimes against humanity and torture...Members of the Falun Gong movement are focusing on Jiang Zemin because he has ‘forged and directed a plan that intended to eliminate Falun Gong in China’. Amongst the six plaintiffs there is a Belgian citizen and a Chinese national, who has resided in Belgium for more then three years.'
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• Belgian Media Report: Interview with Practitioners from TV1

  2003-08-28
  'It is said that the Chinese government systematically persecutes, tortures and even kills Falun Gong practitioners. All of this since 1999 on the order of the then leader Jiang Zemin. It is against him and two other leaders that the complaint is submitted on the basis of the new stricter law on genocide.'
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• Report from Report Belgian Publication Les Dernieres Heures: Lawsuit against Former Chinese Leader Jiang

  2003-08-28
  'Last Wednesday morning, six practitioners of Falun Gong - a cultivation practice from China and around the world - filed a lawsuit against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and two other important political figures on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes of torture.'
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• EFGIC: Farmer, Falun Gong Practitioner Force-Fed Boiling Water – Dies in Chinese Prison

  2003-08-28
  After being abducted multiple times and abused by local police for his practice of Falun Gong, a 56-year-old farmer from Heilongjiang Province was subjected to forced-feeding with boiling water. Emaciated and unable to stand on his own, he died in a Chinese prison on August 8, 2003.
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• Media Report from Sweden: Exercise Demonstration and Providing Information about the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2003-08-27
  'Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises and gave out material about the persecution. A quarter of China’s state funds have been used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Since Falun Gong was banned in 1999, many practitioners were imprisoned or detained in labour camps in China.'
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• Radio France Internationale (RFI): Report about the Belgian Lawsuit against Jiang

  2003-08-27
  Radio France Internationale broadcast a programme in Cantonese to Cambodia and the Cantonese-speaking area of Paris outlining the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and cruel torture, which was filed by several Falun Gong practitioners in Belgium. The programme also introduced details of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
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• FDI: Ethnic Korean, Falun Gong Practitioner Dies from Extended Torture in Chinese Labour Camp

  2003-08-27
  According to reports from China, guards at the labour camp brutally tortured Ms. Cui because she refused to renounce Falun Gong and she persisted in her practise. On one occasion, these reports say, she was only allowed 22 hours of sleep during a 33-day period. Due to extended torture in the prison camp, Ms. Cui passed away on August 12, 2003.
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• A Report on Falun Gong Practitioners Sueing Jiang in Belgium

  2003-08-25
  Between 1992 and 1999, Falun Gong flourished throughout China. The Chinese government’s own survey indicated there were between 70 and 100 million people who had taken up the practise by early 1999. Falun Gong practitioners were found in all walks of life, from farmers to bankers, from housewives to government and military officials. In July 1999, fearful and jealous that Falun Gong had touched the hearts and minds of such a broad range of Chinese people, Jiang Zemin used his power as the country’s top leader to ban the practise, an act that went against the decision of the Politburo Standing Committee members and the Premier, and was, in fact, illegal because it overstepped the power granted to Jiang by the Chinese Constitution.
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