Mr. Ma Dengjiang in Hebei Province Endures Torture and Forced Labour Camp Term

Name: Ma Dengjiang
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Bei Street, Peishan Village, Peishan Town, Yi County, Hebei Province

Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 12th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp
City: Baoding City
Province: Hebei Province
Persecution Suffered: Detention, home ransacked, extortion, torture, starvation, beatings

On June 12th, 2010, Mr. Ma Dengjiang was arrested by police officer Huang Jianliang, who is in charge of Peishan Police Station. Mr. Ma's Falun Gong books and tape recordings were also confiscated. That very same night, he was transferred directly to Qiaotou Military Police Team, and police officers tortured him by tying him to a tiger bench¹. They also shackled his hands and feet. Over the next four nights and three days, he was not given water or food, and his feet became swollen.

Officer Huang Jianliang and the Military Police Team cruelly tortured him. They grabbed his hair and hit his head against the floor; one person pulled his ear, while the other grabbed his ribs; and Huang stepped on his toes and ground them into the ground. Huang also forced him to sit on a copy of Zhuan Falun, which is the main book of Falun Gong. Even when Mr. Ma had to use the washroom, his hands and feet remained shackled. On June 15th, he was tortured so brutally that he developed a severe stomach ache, with all the symptoms of an intestinal hernia.

On June 16th, he was sentenced to one year of forced labour and taken to Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp.

Over the last ten years, because they both believe in and practised Falun Gong, Mr. Ma and his wife have been regularly arrested, and their home ransacked several times by officers of the Domestic Security Brigade of the police bureau, and Yi County Township Police Station. To this day, police officers break into their home and harass them whenever they want to.

In August 2004, Liang Jianhua, head of the police station, along with approximately seven plainclothes officers, broke into Mr. Ma's home and arrested him. They covered his mouth, pinched his neck, twisted his arms, and forced him into a police vehicle. He was detained at the Yi County Detention Centre for approximately 15 days, and he was called a criminal for "disturbing social order." When he was released, he had to pay a fine of 550 yuan².

At around 7:00 p.m. on March 4th, 2008, Tian Guojun, team leader of the Domestic Security Brigade at the Yi County Police Bureau, along with a dozen plainclothes officers, broke into Mr. Ma's home. Two police officers pushed Mr. Ma and his wife against a couch as other officers began ransacking the home inside and out. They confiscated a DVD burner, computer, printer, Falun Gong books, a satellite dish, and other personal belongings. They also confiscated 10,000 yuan that the couple had set aside for a loan payment. They took household appliances, including a torch, radio, etc. Mr. Ma and his wife were arrested and taken to the Yi County Detention Centre. Two months later, as a result of torture, Ms. Zhang developed symptoms of a serious illness and was released. Mr. Ma was taken to Baoding Detention Centre by police officers from the Yi County Bureau. Four months later, his health was critical due to the torture, and only then did police officers send him home.

Note: The Chinese Communist regime sends dying Falun Gong practitioners back to their homes as a warning for others in the community, to instil fear in people, and to further their suppression of Falun Gong.

Note

1. "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/7/20/227233.html