Mr. Ma Jijun, a Practitioner from Xinjiang Province, Is Tortured to Death

Mr. Ma Jijun was about forty years old. On March 4, 2004, the local "610 Office" abducted him and took him to a local brainwashing centre. Later they sent him to a mental hospital, where they continued to persecute him. On September 27, Ma Jijun died.

Ms. Ma Jimei, Ma Jijun's sister, is currently being detained at the Xinjiang No. 2 Prison, also called the Women's Prison. The guards in the prison have been abusing her.

Ma Jijun was a determined Falun Gong practitioner. He was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in October 1999 in the Wujiaqu Forced Labour Camp in Changji. Guards at the forced labour camp repeatedly shocked him with high-voltage electric batons. Ma Jijun went on a hunger strike and continued to practise Falun Gong, so the guards handcuffed him to his bed for four months. His term of imprisonment was extended for another eight months. He was released in May 2002. After that, he was abducted twice to attend brainwashing classes.

On March 4, 2004, the local "610 Office" abducted Ma Jijun again and took him to a brainwashing centre. At the end of the forced brainwashing, he was sent to the No. 4 Hospital at Urumqi City, which is actually a mental hospital, for continued persecution.

In the middle of September, the hospital unexpectedly called his family and asked them to pick him up. When his family saw him, they found that Ma Jijun had serious oedema all over his body and that he was extremely weak. His family refused to take him home, requesting instead that the local "610 Office" send Ma Jijun to a hospital for proper care. The family didn't get a response.

Later we learned that Ma Jijun died as a result of the persecution on September 27, 2004. His mother is in her eighties, his wife has no job, and they have no source of income His son is a student in the fifth grade at the No. 3 Primary School in Changji City.

It was reported that Luo Gan, a member of the standing Politburo Committee of the Central Government, went to Xinjiang Province from August 27 to 31, 2004. He ordered all of the Falun Gong practitioners in Xinjiang Province to be "re-examined," and as a result the persecution there escalated. The local "610 Office" held brainwashing classes in Urumqi City from September 5 to 15. Many practitioners were arrested and sent to those classes.

Contact information for those who were involved in persecuting practitioners:

Wang Chengyun is the Secretary of the Politics and Laws Committee in the Shayibake District of Urumqi City. She is also the director of the brainwashing classes.

Wang Fuxia works at the Overall Management Office in the Shayibake District of Urumqi City. She is the head of the brainwashing classes.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/10/23/87346.html