Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, however, perceived that popularity to be a threat to the regime’s rule, and launched an unprecedented campaign and brutal oppression to eradicate the practice.

No evildoers in history have lied so insidiously and pervasively as Jiang Zemin and the CCP.

Then-Party leader Jiang Zemin, the architect of the persecution, expected to "eradicate" the practice in short order.

Starting in 1989, ex-head of the CCP Jiang Zemin took a grip of the party’s top leadership for nearly 30 years, with his family accumulating huge wealth.

The brief period covers the peak years of Falun Gong's popularity in China, followed by a brutal persecution campaign launched by Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

One of the investors is Boyu Capital, a private company founded in part by Alvin Jiang Zhicheng. He is the oldest grandson of the former regime leader Jiang Zemin.

Zeng Baobao is a high-level Red Princeling as her uncle Zeng Qinghong is a close follower of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and second-in-command in the CCP’s “Jiang Zemin faction.”

Sun, alleged “political ambition,” was known to be backed by Zeng Qinghong and Meng Jianzhu, loyalists of former Party leader Jiang Zemin.

Jiang Zemin perceived Falun Gong's popularity as a threat to the totalitarian rule of the officially atheistic communist regime, and in July 1999 launched a violent suppression campaign aimed at eradicating the practice.

"Tencent was developed quite early under the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, and the faction behind Tencent was therefore loyal to Jiang. It does not belong to the same faction as the current rulers," Lu said.

In June 1999, then-CCP chief Jiang Zemin launched an elimination campaign.

In September 1999, the CCP’s General Secretary Jiang Zemin visited Australia, followed by New Zealand for an APEC forum, spreading the Party’s propaganda to demonise Falun Gong.

In July 1999, Jiang Zemin, the CCP leader at the time, launched a nationwide persecution of Falun Gong despite the fact that the practice not only benefited tens of millions of practitioners, but also won CCP officials’ recognition for its contribution

Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the CCP, initiated the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999 and later fabricated a false case of "Tiananmen Self-immolation" to slander Falun Gong.

However, the then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, who was in control of the communist regime and its military and police, launched an unprecedented persecution campaign against Falun Gong practitioners on July 22 of that year.

Taking Falun Gong’s popularity in China as a threat to the communist regime, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in July 1999, which is still ongoing.

They are the top officials of the Jiang faction led by Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong.

Falun Dafa Information Center representative Ben Maloney said at the rally that four factors contributed to the persecution: the popularity of Falun Gong; the jealousy and political motivations of then-leader Jiang Zemin; the practice’s values which stood

The "610 Office" is an illegal organization specifically set up by former CCP leader Jiang Zemin to persecute Falun Gong, a spiritual practice based on the principles of truth, compassion, and forbearance.

Legal scholar Yuan Hongbing, based in Australia, offers insights into the delay, alleging that Xi Jinping's initial plan to assign blame for various crises onto Jiang Zemin was hindered by setbacks among his allies.

But in 1999 the Chinese Communist Party, largely driven by then-general secretary Jiang Zemin, ordered that Falun Gong be "disintegrated," accusing it of being a threat to the regime's power.

It was estimated that the practice had attracted between 70 million and 100 million people before the CCP, led by then-party head Jiang Zemin, launched a persecution campaign against it in 1999.

On July 20, 1999, fearful of Falun Gong's popularity as an independent ideology, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a persecution against its followers.

(Jason Lee/Illustration/Reuters) The grandson of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, Alvin Jiang, has been one of Shen’s close collaborators; Sequoia China and Jiang’s Boyu Capital more than once led investments in the same Chinese start-ups.

Fearing that its popularity would jeopardize the Chinese regime’s authoritarian rule, in July 1999, then-regime leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution campaign.

Her grandfather, Sun Yueqi, was a senior official in Kuomintang and was close to the father of the late former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.

The Epoch Times reported in 2017 that Xiao was being investigated for his close ties to the political faction of former CCP regime boss Jiang Zemin and his close ally Zeng Qinghong, which had dissented against Xi’s rule.

However, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin saw Falun Gong’s popularity as a threat to the communist regime’s totalitarian rule, and pledged to eradicate the practice in the country.

The persecution was launched in 1999 by then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, who saw the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity and moral teachings as being at odds with the CCP’s atheistic doctrines.

His ouster was connected to political factional infighting within the CCP involving former Chinese leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. Mr. Bo was reportedly part of a coalition under Mr. Jiang. Mr.