At the start of the persecution, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin confidently claimed that Falun Gong would be “eradicated” in three months. But more than two decades later, the discipline is still attracting new adherents, Huang said.

Sources close to the Chinese Communist Party leadership told The Epoch Times back in June 2017 that Wu had ties to the family of Zeng Qinghong, the former Chinese vice premier and right-hand man to former Party leader Jiang Zemin.

However, in July 1999, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution on the practice—despite protests from fellow Politburo members—declaring that the CCP would “ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them

The investment capital behind WuXi includes Boyu Capital controlled by Jiang Zhicheng, the grandson of Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

According to this piece from The Jamestown Foundation, CCP factions include “the Shanghai Faction led by ex-president Jiang Zemin and former vice-president Zeng Qinghong; the Communist Youth League Faction led by ex-president Hu Jintao; and other princelings

Fearful of the spiritual discipline's soaring popularity (the number of people practicing it exceeded the CCP’s membership) the former leader of the communist party, Jiang Zemin, initiated nationwide persecution in July 1999; countless adherents have

There is a move where there’s over 200,000 signatures to have Jiang Zemin taken to court in China and held accountable. "There’s now a move here, that I’ve initiated to take a similar case to the international criminal court against Jiang Zemin.

The controversy reaches back to at least 2001, when the paper’s publisher at the time, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., met with then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, whose power faction within the communist regime exerts influence even to this day, long after his retirement

Although he eliminated the leader's term limitation by amending the Chinese constitution in 2018, he is facing a challenge to his capability to rule the country from former leaders Jiang Zemin faction and Hu Jintao faction,” he said, adding, Xi doesn't

Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin deemed the large number of Falun Gong adherents a threat to the communist regime and subsequently launched an unprecedented campaign to eradicate the practice in 1999.

(The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick) “The list of 14 Chinese officials includes former CCP [Chinese Communist Party] leader Jiang Zemin, the main perpetrator and architect of the persecution, who sought to eradicate Falun Gong because of its popularity

Out of fear of losing power, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a genocidal campaign against Falun Gong adherents.

The persecution campaign was launched on July 20, 1999, by former dictator Jiang Zemin, who viewed the meditators as a threat to “social stability” and to the Communist Party itself.

The massive campaign to vilify and annihilate the peaceful, popular Falun Gong and the coinciding skyrocketing success of China’s transplant business was initiated under former Chinese Party Chief Jiang Zemin in July 1999.

Another period of brutality came during the crackdown against any form of protest after the deadly Tiananmen Square massacre when then-President Jiang Zemin quashed violent rebellions against Chinese rule in Tibet.

He cited an infamous order given by Jiang Zemin, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader at the time of his incarceration, who in July 1999 orchestrated the persecution of Falun Gong and essentially gave free rein to prison staff to use any means possible

This not only places Xi above his predecessors Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Deng Xiaoping, but he is also catching up with Mao Zedong’s legacy.

Party elders include retired officials who held national-level or vice-national-level roles, including former Party leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao; and former premiers Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, and Wen Jiabao.

Both Sun and Fu previously served as leaders of the “610 Office,” a Gestapo-style body set up by former CCP chief Jiang Zemin to persecute the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

On Oct. 27, 2000, Cheung interviewed then-Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin.

The persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, when then head of the Chinese communist regime, Jiang Zemin, gave the order.

An article published on July 10, 2021, in the Chinese language Epoch Times, indicating that on Dec. 9, 1999, Jiang Zemin, then leader of the CCP, signed a protocol about the Russia-China state border with Russian then-president Boris Yeltsin, fully acknowledging

A clamor for military invasion of Taiwan within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues with outside media supported by former CCP leader Jiang Zemin urging regime Xi Jinping to promptly order the attack.

The 610 office was established by then-party leader Jiang Zemin and named after the date of its creation, June 10, 1999. It functions outside the state system without any official standing.

Jiangsu is the hometown of both former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and former director of the CCP’s Political and Legislative Affairs Commission Zhou Yongkang. After Xi came to power, Zhou was sentenced to life in prison on corruption charges in 2015.

The massacre was proposed to the then-CCP leader Deng Xiaoping by Jiang Zemin, who was promoted to General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party days before the crackdown.

(Ilene Eng/The Epoch Times) The year after Meng took up the practice, then-leader of the CCP Jiang Zemin ordered a brutal campaign against Falun Gong.

Much of this is due the lasting influence of police, security, and judicial officers whose vested interests and personal loyalties often lie with Xi’s rivals in the Jiang Zemin faction.

Please pass this message onto Jiang Zemin…" The other party stammered, "Don't tell me.

To carry out the persecution—which is now entering its 23rd year—CCP leader Jiang Zemin promoted anyone who supported this persecution, forcing people to oppose truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.