Jiang Zemin in 2007. (Fredric J.

The Hong Kong broadcaster ATV News repeatedly reported the news that Jiang Zemin was dead on Wednesday evening, July 6.

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.

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Then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, fearing that Falun Gong's popularity threatened the regime's power, began a brutal campaign on July 20, 1999, to eradicate the practice.

(Evan Ning/The Epoch Times) The CCP launched a violent persecution campaign on July 20, 1999, aiming to eradicate Falun Gong after then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin deemed its popularity and spiritual teachings a threat to the Party’s power and atheistic ideology

He helped Deng's successor Jiang Zemin cover up Jiang's family background, and paved Jiang's path to the top. In return, Jiang helped Bo Yibo's son, Bo Xilai, all the way from his position as a county official to becoming a central leader.

Then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin felt threatened by the number of Falun Gong practitioners in China, then estimated to be in the tens of millions, which outnumbered the Party's own membership.

Concluding Thoughts In 1999, then-CCP top leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong.

Su noted that corruption within the PLA has deep roots, dating back to policies in the 1990s under former CCP leader Jiang Zemin that allowed military units to operate businesses.

China is holding a memorial for former communist leader Jiang Zemin. We look at the details of his time in power.

Then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, who considered Falun Gong's popularity a threat to the regime's power, initiated a nationwide campaign to wipe it out. Zhou said the family is kept in the dark about her mother's situation.

The only reason Beijing was less expansionist under past leaders such as Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and even Mao himself was that it lacked the strength to pursue its international ambitions, he said.

A Net Cast Over an Entire Country It was that very comparison, observers of the period say, that alarmed then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin.

Jiang 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.

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

"It was very grassroots, very different than very hierarchical communist structures, and the dictator at the time, Jiang Zemin, decided, to use his words, 'eradicate it,'" Jekielek said.

Signed in 2001 by former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and Putin, the treaty established a long-term strategic partnership between Russia and China.

So that was Jiang Zemin, I think. In 1999, he wrote a letter to the Politburo. He gave two reasons why he cracked down on Falun Gong. This was published in 2006 in China.

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In 2001, amid a persecution campaign in which Falun Gong practitioners were rounded up en masse and subjected to brainwashing in extralegal “transformation” centers, NY Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. met then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin in Beijing.

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

Seeing the growing popularity of the practice as a challenge to its authority, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a violent crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners in July 1999.

But on July 20, 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin, who deemed Falun Gong’s popularity as a threat, launched a campaign of persecution against the practice, ordering practitioners to be arrested arbitrarily.

The first reaffirmed the countries’ “comprehensive strategic partnership” and extended the China–Russia friendship treaty, originally signed 25 years ago under Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.

After Deng crushed the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Jiang Zemin became the CCP’s top leader and tied family planning quotas directly to officials' performance evaluations—under a strict "one-vote veto" system—to implement more stringent birth control

However, in 1999 the CCP's then-leader Jiang Zemin arbitrarily decided to launch a global persecution against the practice.

Then, under Jiang Zemin, overseas students were added to the list of targets. The current CCP leader, Xi Jinping, has spoken several times about "unifying" people of Chinese descent around the world, the report said.

Episodes 23 through 26 cover how the forced organ harvesting was ordered by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and implicates senior military and political figures.