(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Ma Rongqing, 55, worked at a cooling storage
company in Hulin City, Heilongjiang Province. In late 2000, he went to Beijing
to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. After being sent back to his home city, he
was detained in the Hulin City detention center and sentenced to one year of
forced labor. During his detention in the Jixi City forced labor camp, he was
brutally force-fed. Authorities made him run after force-feeding him with salt
water. He was locked into a small cage and tortured with electric-shock batons.
He refused to give up his practice of Falun Gong, so he was detained an extra
month in the Hulin detention center after his labor camp term ended.
On April 2, 2004, Mr. Ma Rongqing was arrested again when he was distributing
truth-clarifying materials and hanging banners. He was sentenced to two years of
forced labor and was again sent to the Jixi City forced labor camp. He
contracted a severe heart problem in the labor camp and was sent home because
the labor camp officials feared he might die in their custody, and they did not
want responsibility for his death.
On December 26, 2005, the labor camp officers went to his home and took him
away under the pretense of medical inspection. At that time, Mr. Ma's wife was
paralyzed in bed and had no one at home to take care of her. On January 8, 2006,
Mr. Ma was released.
After several years of persecution, Mr. Ma Rongqing was in very poor
condition, both financially and physically. On August 27, he died on his way
home. His family members said that he hadn't had heart problems before ¡V his
heart problems were due to the beatings he had suffered in the forced labor
camp.
In the Jixi City forced labor camp, under the name of "education
assistance", the officers often beat practitioners with police batons and
plastic pipes, causing the practitioners' skin to tear and flesh wounds to
widen. Officer Qi Min said, "We just want to use batons to educate
you." Officer Zhang Guide said, "One can't use reason in this place.
If you want to reason, go to the US."
September 2, 2006
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