Langfang City Authorities Cause Death of Mr Zhengting Ma, His Wife and Daughter Also Suffer Brutal Persecution

Both Fengyin Li and her husband Zhengting Ma were employees of the 3532 Factory in Langfang City. Together with their daughter, the three members of their family lived according to Falun Dafa's principle of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance," however the family was totally disrupted as a result of persecution at the hands of Langfang City authorities.

Fengyin Li's husband, Zhengting Ma was arrested and sent to a local detention centre on five separate occasions. In the detention centre, he was tortured and suffered both physically and psychologically. Later he was sent to a brainwashing centre, where he was psychologically persecuted. He died after being forced to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa. Their daughter Li Ma was sent to the detention centre on two separate occasions. Details of their mistreatment follow below:

On the afternoon of September 22, 1999, a man surnamed Hu from the Tanmengwai Police Station along with Youli Wang and Dongliang Wang from the factory went to Fengyin Li's home. They searched her home and confiscated audiocassettes containing Falun Dafa exercise music. Fengyin Lin was detained for 15 days. Her husband went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Dafa and was detained for 15 days as well. Their daughter was also forcibly taken and interrogated by the Police and not released until 11 p.m. that evening.

After Fengyin Li and her husband were released, they remained true to their belief in the principle of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." Freedom of belief is the right of every citizen. Appealing to the government is also a right provided in the Chinese constitution.

So many Falun Dafa practitioners from all over the country had been going to Beijing to appeal for justice on behalf of Falun Dafa at the Appeals Office that the officials not only refused to hear the appeals, but in the end vacated their office. As a result, Fengyin Li and her family were unable to locate the Appeals Office and were instead arrested and sent to their local Police station on October 20th. The local authorities detained both of them for one month and fined them 4,000 Yuan, however, the authorities deceitfully issued a receipt for the amount of 2,000 Yuan only, leaving the additional 2,000 Yuan undocumented and unaccounted for. After paying the money, Fengyin Li's husband and daughter were released. Fengyin Li was, however, sentenced to three years in the Kaiping Labour Camp in Tangshan on November 26, 1999.

Upon arrival at the labour camp at noon, Fengyin Li was required to stand in one place for half the day. Then, she was forced to conduct marching drills for hours without a break and was beaten by another prisoner with a baton. From that point on, she had to work underground in a converted air-raid shelter without sunlight for more than 10 hours each day. At one point, foreign inspectors came to check the camp for compliance with regulations. Falun Dafa practitioners were all hidden by the camp officials, because they feared that the Dafa practitioners would tell the inspectors what was really occurring to them in the camp. Other prisoners were told to tell the foreign inspectors that they only worked 6 hours per day.
In August 2000, the Falun Dafa practitioners in Fengyin Li's team went on a hunger strike to protest their illegal imprisonment. They also refused to work. One day, Yanhua Wang, the head of the team on duty, brought four prisoners and tried to force feed practitioners. Once, Fengyin Li was handcuffed and prisoners Lijun Zhao and Junqing Li planted one foot each to hold down her body while prisoner Qi An sat on her abdomen with one hand pinching her nose and the other hand prying her mouth open with a spoon while another prisoner forced food down her throat. People who witnessed this were stunned by the brutality.

Practitioners were handcuffed to the persimmon trees and telegraph poles in the courtyard. This happened daily, regardless of the weather outside. Some of the practitioners were on hunger strikes so long that they frequently fainted out of hunger and weakness. One time, Fengyin Li was uncuffed, only after she fainted. However, she was handcuffed again, immediately after she regained consciousness.

In December 2000, guards locked Yuhuan Zhao and Zhibin Zhang up in a small torture cell. The prisoner Xiaoqin Cao, who monitored Fengyin Li, told her, "Zhibin Zhang was beaten to death by them." We still have no official confirmation whether she died or not. Later, practitioner Yulan Cui, from Langfang, was tortured to death by the guards.

The Tangshan Labour Camp persecuted Falun Gong practitioners relentlessly during these years. They fanatically followed the persecution policies of Jiang Zemin which directed the authorities to, "Eliminate Falun Gong practitioners physically and classify the practitioners who were beaten to death as a suicide." To this day, the tragedy of the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners continues.

In late 2000 and early 2001, most of the Falun Dafa practitioners in the Tangshan Labour Camp were on a hunger strike to protest their illegal imprisonment and cruel persecution. Shortly thereafter, the policeman ordered many male prisoners to senselessly beat practitioners in the dining room. Each practitioner was beaten to the point that their whole body turned black and blue. One prisoner beat Fengyin Li to the ground with a single blow. He then dragged her by the hair and forced her to kneel down in front of them. Forced labour was combined with other forms of brainwashing. This included forcing Falun Dafa practitioners to watch videos on a daily basis, which stigmatized and defamed Falun Dafa. The practitioners refused to watch them. On one occasion, camp guards shocked and beat the practitioners with electric batons. Practitioners' bodies and faces were covered with deep bruises, blisters and broken teeth. Thereafter, they were handcuffed onto the chairs of the education centre in various contorted positions. The practitioners were not allowed to go to the toilet and many of them were forced to urinate in their trousers. The guards inhumanly persecuted them.

The Chinese TV broadcasting system systematically deceives the public about the way Falun Dafa practitioners are treated. The official Party line is quoted as, "Like the doctor treating his patients, like parents treating their children, like teachers treating their students." They air their lies via TV stating that "transformation" success rate [refers to the number of practitioners forced to renounce their belief] of Falun Gong practitioners is 98%. They justify their lies by the number of signed "Guarantee Statements," obtained by force from those who could not withstand Jiang Zemin's policies of brainwashing and agonizing torture.

Several days after Fengyin Li was released, her husband was abducted by authorities from the "610 office" (1) and was sent to a local brainwashing centre for psychological persecution. After he returned home, people in the security department of the factory and Xianen Xing in the plant, continually called to harass them, causing great psychological pressure on her husband. Her husband became thinner and thinner. He wanted to see a doctor, but they were short of money. In over four years of persecution, the three members of their family were sent to the detention centre several times and were extorted of large sums of money by the police and the factory on several occasions. Her husband had to pay 1,000 yuan before he was permitted to visit his wife at the labour camp. The authorities depleted what little money they had saved with their corrupt extortion. When Fengyin Li finally was able to gather enough money to send her husband to the hospital, it was too late. Her husband passed away shortly thereafter. Fengyin Li said with grief and indignation, "My husband weighed 160 jin (a jin is a Chinese unit of weight; 1 jin is approximately 1 pound) before he was sent to the brainwashing centre. He was very healthy and had no illnesses at that time. Jiang Zemin is responsible for the death of my husband."

During the past five years, the persecution of Fengyin Li and her family is only one of the millions of cases of persecution against Falun Dafa practitioners in China.

(1) "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.]

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/4/24/73045.html