Practitioner Mr. Ma Yunwu from Shandong Province, Dies from Persecution - His Wife Imprisoned in a Forced Labour Camp

Practitioner Mr. Ma Yunwu from Qingzhou, Shandong Province

Mr. Ma Died as a Result of the Persecution.

Mr. Ma, a teacher from the First Middle School of Qingzhou, Shandong Province, and his wife, Mrs. Dong Xiuyun, were both over 70 years old. Because they practised Falun Gong, they were arrested, detained and tortured by followers of Jiang Zemin's regime. Mr. Ma died in 2004 from persecution. Mrs. Dong is being illegally detained in a re-education through labour camp.

Mr. Ma was a senior teacher with many students. Both the students and other teachers greatly respected him.

Mr. Ma had many diseases when he got older. In 1995, Mr. Ma began to practise Falun Gong and consciously changed his behaviour to comply with "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance." Soon, his and his wife's diseases vanished. Mr. Ma's bad temper was given up and his family also became harmonious.

Mr. and Mrs. Ma adhered steadfastly to Falun Dafa's teachings, cultivated their minds towards goodness, and became people who always considered other people first. They introduced more people to learn the practice. At the practice site, they voluntarily provided all kinds of services for everyone, warm-heartedly helped neighbours who had difficulties, and selflessly aided the impoverished students. Both of them were good people, winning universal praise.

On July 20th 1999, Jiang's regime ordered the secret arrest of Falun Dafa assistants and instructors across the country. Mr. Ma, who was an instructor, was one of those arrested suddenly by the public security bureau. He was secretly imprisoned in a tiny, dirty cabin. In the extremely hot summer, the police let mosquitoes bite him, wouldn't let him sleep, and used all kinds of tactics to try to force him to give up "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance." Mr. Ma, at over 70 years of age, experienced almost four weeks of inhuman torture, but endured it with determination.

At that time, Hao Xuehui, the principal in the first middle school, and Zhang Mingfu, the party secretary, closely followed Jiang's regime's directives and constantly harassed this couple. They stopped paying Mr. Ma's salary and coerced Mr. Ma's only son, who worked elsewhere, to come back and participate in the effort to force Mr. Ma to give up his belief.

Hao Xuehui and Zhang Mingfu made a special iron cage in order to imprison Mr. Ma. From July 20th 1999, to 2000, before he was re-educated through forced labour, Mr. Ma was imprisoned in this cage or in a dark room. Even though Mr. Ma suffered from all kinds of tortures, he still explained the truth of Falun Dafa with his own experience to the evildoers.

In 2000, when Mr. and Mrs. Ma went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Dafa, they were arrested by the police and sent to their hometown, where they were imprisoned in Qingzhou Jail and the Qingzhou Detention Centre, respectively. After one month, Mr. Ma was sent to Changle Forced Labour Camp.

In Changle Forced Labour Camp, the police guards incited the criminals to carry out all kinds of tortures on practitioners. Mr. Ma was forced to sit on the cement almost all day. If he slightly moved his legs, he was beaten and kicked. In the evening he was not allowed to sleep. In the cold of winter, he was forced into a big tub of cold water and made to stay there and freeze.

On one occasion, several people concentrated on the torture of Mr. Ma in order to "transform"¹ him. They held him down on the ground and beat and kicked him. One clutched his neck and another stepped on his body and randomly kicked him until he was close to death. Later, Mr. Ma had a high fever and severe chest pain, his blood pressure increased suddenly to 260, and his heart developed serious problems. The labour camp staff then did not want to be held responsible for his death, so they released Mr. Ma released on bail for medical treatment.

After Mr. Ma went home, he did not recover. His chest was painful for a long time and his head was injured. His health went from bad to worse. Despite his condition, officials from the Qingzhou brainwashing class still went to his home to harass and threaten him many times. They illegally arrested his wife, Mrs. Dong Xiuyun, and took her to the brainwashing class.

Mrs. Dong Xiuyun Illegally Sent to a Re-education Through Labour Camp

Mrs. Dong Xiuyun, Mr. Ma's wife, was a retired match factory worker. She has remained a dedicated cultivator. Mrs. Dong was once imprisoned in a dark room in the school for many days because she did the Falun Gong exercises. Because she went to Beijing to appeal, she was imprisoned in the detention centre. Then her salary was stopped.

This summer, Mrs. Dong was arrested again. Because she was doing the exercises in jail, she and several other practitioners were handcuffed and shackled. Last July Mrs. Dong was sent to a forced labour camp.

Note

1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/8/25/109121.html