Editing Jiang Zemin (section)

=== Crackdown on Falun Gong ===
{{Further|Persecution of Falun Gong}}
In June 1999, Jiang established an extralegal department, the [[610 Office]], to crack down on [[Falun Gong]]. Cook and Lemish state this was because Jiang was worried that the popular new religious movement was "quietly infiltrating the CCP and state apparatus."<ref>Sarah Cook and Leeshai Lemish, [http://www.jamestown.org/programs/chinabrief/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=38411&cHash=2dff246d80ffd78112de97e280ce9725 'The 610 Office:Policing the Chinese Spirit'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127030409/http://www.jamestown.org/programs/chinabrief/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=38411&cHash=2dff246d80ffd78112de97e280ce9725 |date=27 January 2013 }}, China Brief, Volume 11 Issue 17 (9 November 2011).</ref> On 20 July, security forces arrested thousands of Falun Gong organizers they identified as leaders.<ref name="Tong">James Tong. ''[[Revenge of the Forbidden City: The suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999–2005]]''. (New York, NY: [[Oxford University Press]], 2009); {{ISBN|0-19-537728-1}} – [https://books.google.com/books?id=PyxCVRB-De8C&pg=PP6  Link at] [[Google Books]]</ref> The persecution that followed was characterized as a nationwide campaign of propaganda, as well as the large-scale arbitrary imprisonment and coercive reeducation of Falun Gong organizers, sometimes resulting in death due to mistreatment in detention.<ref name="HRW">{{Cite book|first=Mickey|last=Spiegel|url=https://archive.org/details/fromhouseholdtof00huma|title=Dangerous Meditation: China's Campaign Against Falungong|publisher=Human Rights Watch|year=2002|access-date=28 September 2007|isbn=1-56432-269-6}}</ref><ref>Amnesty International [http://www.refworld.org/docid/3b83b6e00.html "China: The crackdown on Falun Gong and other so-called 'heretical organization'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518074828/http://www.refworld.org/docid/3b83b6e00.html |date=18 May 2015 }} 23 March 2000</ref><ref>[[Ian Denis Johnson]], [http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6472 "Death Trap – How One Chinese City Resorted to Atrocities To Control Falun Dafa"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406133845/http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6472 |date=6 April 2012 }}, ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', Pulitzer.org, 26 December 2000.</ref>