In 1991, two years after troops crushed the Tiananmen Square protests, the CCP under former leader Jiang Zemin launched a “patriotic education campaign” that—as China scholar Zheng Wang has documented—rebuilt school curricula around China’s “century of

On Feb. 22, 2005, more than 10 organizations, including the Epoch Media Group, the Farewell to the CCP Alliance, and the Global Coalition to Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice, joined forces to establish the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, a nonprofit

Falun Gong practitioners holding banners raising awareness about forced organ harvesting and bringing Jiang Zemin, the former CCP leader, to justice, in Melbourne, Australia, on July 14, 2018.

Former Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping (R) and his successor Jiang Zemin shake hands in October 1992.

Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the regime since July 1999 when then-Chinese leader Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution campaign.

The purge of Xi’s most visible opponents—such as Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, Le Keqiang, and Han Zheng—was an attempt to “kill the snake by cutting off its head.”

The CCP, under then-dictator Jiang Zemin, perceived Falun Gong as a direct threat to its one-party rule, since the Party could not directly control the practice.

In 1999, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched a sweeping campaign to eradicate Falun Gong, resulting in millions of practitioners being thrown in detention facilities, where they are brainwashed, tortured, or even killed for

The report stated it confirmed that starting from late 1999, under the order of CCP leader Jiang Zemin, the regime orchestrated a nationwide genocide of Falun Gong practitioners through forced organ harvesting, which has continued for 25 years and is

In comparison, his predecessors Jiang Zemin promoted 79 generals and Hu Jintao promoted 45 generals.

Fang was a subordinate of Guo Boxiong, who was once the regime's highest-ranked military official and known as a key member of the "Jiang faction," a political faction loyal to former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.

In 2003, Jiang Zemin and Mr. Zeng attempted to pass the controversial Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23. A massive street protest—numbering over 500,000 participants—forced the government to withdraw the bill.

In July 1999, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched a brutal persecution campaign aimed at crushing the practice and its 100 million adherents within six months.

On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its persecution campaign against Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, with then-leader Jiang Zemin arguing for the use of atheism to defeat theism.

have been filed against Jiang Zemin, such as "Jiang Zemin Genocide Case."

Its enormous popularity, however, was perceived as a threat by Jiang Zemin, then the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, who had long feared the Party had lost its dominance over daily life in China.

Falun Gong practitioners Zhang Huidong (L) and Yu Jing (R) hold a banner that reads "Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice," on Sept. 24, 2015.

Jiang Zemin died on Nov. 30, just prior to the current outbreak of COVID-19. Some observers see a connection between the ruthless leader and the deaths of influential CCP members who promoted his policies.

He may be directing his actions at the Jiang Zemin faction that Xi has implied are careerists in the Party.

Technically, the CFWC is not a new organization but the rebirth of the original CFWC, established in 1998 under former leader Jiang Zemin.

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.

Jiang Zemin, the late regime leader who initiated the campaign, certainly didn’t expect that 25 years later, “Falun Gong would have survived,” and even less so that there would be others helping—human rights lawyers, neighbors, or even local police officers—to

After the flood, Jiang inspected the Jingjiang embankment in Hubei on Aug. 13, 1998, and bragged about how powerful the People’s Liberation Army was. Notably, previous reports on the topic of the 1998 floods would praise Jiang Zemin.

Originating in mainland China in 1992, the popular practice attracted between 70 million to 100 million followers, according to various estimates, before former Chinese regime leader Jiang Zemin turned the state apparatus against it in 1999.

Feeling uneasy about the steady rise in people practicing Falun Gong, the then-head of CCP, Jiang Zemin, launched a crackdown on the practice. The persecution is still ongoing. Reporting by Yawen Hung, Weiyong Zhu, and Maria Han.

While officers such as Xu and Guo were linked to the faction of deceased former CCP head Jiang Zemin, notorious for his “rule by corruption” in the 1990s and 2000s, military malfeasance remains severe under Xi, undermining the PLA's readiness and ability

Zhou served as the governor of the People's Bank of China from 2002 to 2018, a tenure of 16 years spanning the administrations of former CCP leaders Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and current leader Xi Jinping.

Both men were loyalists of the late former CCP leader Jiang Zemin.

Former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin had control of the military for 10 years and was able to exercise control during Hu Jintao's 10-year reign.

Others Detained The persecution campaign against Falun Gong that began under former CCP leader Jiang Zemin in 1999 continues to this day.