Mr. Ma Hongwei, 51, Dies 45 Days after His Release from Detention

Name: Ma Hongwei
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Address: Decheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong Province
Occupation: Employee of the Hengfeng Textile Limited Company
Date of Death: November 5th, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 21st, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Dezhou City Detention Centre
City: Dezhou
Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: Sleep Deprivation, Torture, Home Ransacked, Detention

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ma Hongwei was a kind person, well known in his company for his calligraphy and drawing. He was close to winning a merit award every year, and he was in good health.

Mr. Ma before persecution

At around 11:00 a.m. on September 21st, 2009, Mr. Ma was making lunch at home. Officers stormed in and ransacked his home, taking his computer, 30,000 yuan¹ in bank deposit booklets, and 3,000 yuan in cash. They detained him in the Dezhou City Detention Centre, where Mr. Ma was brutally tortured and deprived of sleep. The prisoners watching him would shake him as soon as he closed his eyes. Mr. Ma told the guards that his legs were swollen on September 26th, but no one cared. A few days later his stomach was swollen and the guards said it was fine as long as he did not die. He reported this problem three times, to no avail.

By October 7th, Mr. Ma's whole body was swollen, and he could not catch his breath. The detention centre authorities rushed him to the Dezhou City People's Hospital for emergency treatment. The Dezhou City Domestic Security Division Chief Zhang Xikun quickly notified Mr. Ma's family and forced them to sign forms, and Mr. Ma was released. The emergency rescue effort failed, and Mr. Ma died at approximately 8:00 a.m. on November 5th.

Dezhou City Detention Centre: 86-534-2347203 / 2558190
Zhang Shuping, Director of Dezhou City Detention Centre
Zhao Jianqi, Deputy Director of Dezhou City Detention Centre: 86-13305348879 (Mobile)
Wang Shixian, Director of Dechecng District Police Department: 86-534-2639897 (Home), 86-13905343988 (Mobile)
Ran Fanxing, 610 Office Chair: 86-534-2876755 (Xaiolingtong)
Zhang Xikun, Domestic Security Chief: 86-13853498626(Mobile)
Wu Zhenyuan, Domestic Security Division Chief: 86-13805340373 (Mobile)
Fan Suyun, Dezhou City Police Department Deputy Director and Development Zone Police Department Director: 86-13905343988
Wang Shixian, Dezhou City Police Department Deputy Director, and Decheng District Police Department Director, CCP Secretary: 86-534-2639897 (Home), 86-13905343988 (Mobile)

Note

1. "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://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/11/7/212118.html