Zemin.

Then, on July 20, 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin ordered a violent persecution of Falun Gong, resulting in mass illegal detention of practitioners overnight.

Jiang Zemin is notorious for having installed a battery of cronies in the Politburo Standing Committee, the Party's nerve center, as he was leaving office in 2002.

And in 2015, investigators probed major state-owned companies controlled by Jiang Mianheng and Jiang Miankang, the elder and younger sons of Jiang Zemin.

"However, Jiang Zemin and Li Peng placed their interests above all else during their reign," Xu added.

Articles on Boxun, and on a number of outlets in Hong Kong, linked the explosions with Jiang Zemin.

On Aug. 10, People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, published an editorial that seemed aimed squarely at the former Party leader Jiang Zemin.

Commentary Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its brutal persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, under then-top leader Jiang Zemin, it has systematically tortured and killed countless practitioners in an attempt to force them to renounce

Zemin, the late former CCP leader.

A banner pasted at a public security checkpoint in Beijing calls for the prosecution of Jiang Zemin. (Minghui.org)

Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who single-handedly unleashed the sweeping eradication campaign at the time, wanted Falun Gong gone in three months. That hasn’t happened. Neither have house churches disappeared from China.

Meanwhile, in order to expand business in China, Starbucks signed a deal in early April with Chinese company Boyu, whose founders include the grandson of former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin.

The Changsha residents who joined the signature drive expressed a similar sentiment: Jiang Zemin should have been brought to justice a long time ago.

From Jiang Zemin himself. "At the time, it was Chairman Jiang. There was an instruction to start this thing, organ transplantation," said the official.

As a result, a flood of lawsuits has come in against Jiang Zemin.

In December 1999, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement on disputed border territory in Beijing.

On this front, Jiang Zemin has not been doing very well over the last couple of years.

In the reading of observers of the episode: a slap in the face to Jiang Zemin, and an omen of his impending political demise.

Taking Down Jiang The greatest symbol of vanquishing this rule by corruption will be taking down Jiang Zemin himself.

What's more, Jiang Zemin had pretended to be an underground party member before the Chinese Communist Party finally took power in 1949, but had not been. According to Lu, Jiang had also concealed that he was a spy working for the Soviet Union.

Although Jiang Zemin was succeeded in 2002 by Hu Jintao as Party head, Jiang maintained the ability to heavily influence events during Hu's 10-year-term. Controlling the Propaganda Department was one means Jiang used to limit Hu's power.

The ex-mayor is a close ally of former Communist Party head Jiang Zemin, and the indictment of the mayor was accompanied by an official hint that Jiang will also be targeted by the anti-corruption campaign that brought down his ally.

Jiang Zemin is responsible for launching the now 15-year-old persecution of Falun Gong.

Jiang Zemin, a former leader of the Chinese Communist Party, turned 88 on Sunday. Online, he received what was probably an unwelcome birthday card.

During the years that Jiang Zemin was in power, every aspect of Chinese society began to experience crises.

However, Jiang Zemin was not pleased.

Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin: One Plaintiff Dead, Other Jailed). 

One of those categories fits top officials loyal to former Party head Jiang Zemin.

This had deeply aggravated Jiang Zemin. Jiang could not directly fire Chan, so he forced her to resign.

Zhang cast a fawning glance at Jiang Zemin, who nodded contentedly. One could tell Jiang was trying to hide a grin that was beginning to tug at the corner of his mouth.