For Chinese communist functionaries around China, it’s a dilemma: Ordinary citizens are attempting to use the legal system to bring to justice a former leader who started an illegal persecution 16 years ago. Though what they’re doing is perfectly legal, the case they seek justice for—the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual practice—touches on a deep political taboo.
The violent political campaign against Falun Gong, a popular practice of meditation and moral teaching, was launched by former Party leader Jiang Zemin in 1999, the man whom criminal complaints are now being lodged against.
