(Clearwisdom.net) On October 28, 2005, Lin Yanzhi, deputy Chinese Communist Party Secretary of Jinlin Province, was sued in Toronto for his role in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Li is the second CCP official sued by overseas practitioners for persecution after the publication of the Falun Dafa Association Statement. (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2005/10/9/65726.html)

September 9, 2005, Canadian practitioners gathered at Parliament Hill to call for punishment of persecutors

Lin was the director of the Jilin Province 610 Office. In this position, Lin directed and was personally involved in "converting" practitioners with torture. The direct involvement of high-ranking officials in such atrocities is rare. The persecution of Falun Gong in Jilin province was especially severe among all the provinces in China. As of September 2005, it has been verified that 322 practitioners have been persecuted to death in Jilin, the 4^th highest in term of deaths.

According to Kevin Yang, a spokesman for the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), Lin's involvement in the persecution was reported to the organization on October 27, and the organization located the whereabouts of Lin in just a few hours. On the 28^th, a persecution victim who was brutally persecuted in Jilin city, Jilin province filed a civil lawsuit against Lin in the Ontario Superior Court.

The Canadian Falun Dafa Association then submitted evidence of Lin's involvement in the persecution to the Canadian Royal Mounted Police (CRMP) and requested the CRMP to launch an investigation of Lin's crimes, and arrest and deport him according to Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program.

Kevin Yang said: "Lin's words and deeds during the persecution were inhumane and unconscionable. Lin is regarded as one of the most notorious high-ranking officials. According to a persecution investigation report of the WOIPFG in 2001, Lin went to forced labor camps and brainwashing centers in Siping, Songyuan and Changchun to both direct and participate in persecution.

According to WOIPFG's investigation, when inspecting the progress of the "conversion of Falun Gong practitioners" at Siping City Forced Labor Camp, Lin said: "If you refuse to denounce Falun Gong after one year of detention, we will detain you for two years; if two years is not enough, then three years; if you refuse to convert (denounce Falun Gong) after three years of detention, we will detain you for ten years. In China, there are about 100,000 steadfast practitioners. China has 1.2 billion people, if these 100,000 refuse to convert, we can do anything to them--we can suppress or kill them. One hundred thousand is just a small number for us. Even if we kill all 2 million practitioners, the reign of our communist party won't be affected...If you refuse to denounce Falun Gong, we will beat you without mercy, we can beat you to death. We'd rather beat you to death than allow you to go to Beijing..."

On August 30, Lin visited the Songyuan City 610 Office and ordered police to drag practitioner Xin Guoqian out and beat him brutally. After Xin was covered with cuts and bruises all over, Lin unlawfully ordered Xin to be detained in a forced labor camp for a year.

On October 9, the Falun Dafa Association issued a statement to warn CCP officials to stop persecuting Falun Gong. The statement said: "From today on, overseas Falun Gong practitioners will file civil or criminal lawsuits against all important government or CCP officials who participate in or continue to implement the persecution of Falun Gong and as a result, commit new crimes in addition to those they have already perpetrated against Falun Gong."

Toronto practitioners said that Lin is the second provincial level official sued after publication of the statement. One week ago, Guandong Governor Huang Huahua was sued in a Vancouver court for the crime of torture. Fearing to face justice, Huang terminated his visit to North America and fled back to China from Canada on October 25, 2005.

Reportedly, in September, the Canadian Falun Dafa Association asked the Federal Government to deny entry to CCP Minister of Commerce and former Liaoning governor Bo Xilai and deputy governor Xia Deren. Bo and Xia are both major perpetrators of the persecution, and neither of them was able to visit Canada as scheduled.