Name: Ma Feilong (马飞龙)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Dongshacheng Village, Xishacheng Township, Huai'an County, Hebei Province
Occupation: Farmer

Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 24, 2008
Most recent place of detention: Shajiatun Brainwashing Center, Huai'an County
City: Huai'an County
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Detention, Home Ransacked, Beatings, Electric Shocks, Torture, Brainwashing

(Clearwisdom.net) ) (By a correspondent from Hebei Province) Local Chinese Communist Party officials and the police took Mr. Ma Feilong into custody in July 2008 for practicing Falun Gong. They beat him during the detention, and later sent him to a brainwashing facility.

Mr. Ma had become a better and healthier person as a result of practicing Falun Gong, but officers from the local police station and from the village Party branch often went to his home to harass him.

When Mr. Ma was ready to help a customer load coal onto his truck at around midnight on July 24, 2008, eight people led by Ma Ruiguang, the Party secretary at the Xishacheng Township, Wang Yanfeng, the deputy secretary and Zhang Wanfu, the police station chief, broke into Mr. Ma's home and ransacked it.

They found a copy of Zhuan Falun and tore down a calendar from the wall. They kept Mr. Ma from speaking, and at the same time kicked and punched him. They also shocked him with electric batons, kicked a thermos bottle onto the ground and poured its scalding hot water on Mr. Ma's back. They even removed his belt and used it to whip his face. Mr. Ma's face became swollen, and his nose bled. After the brutal beating, the police handcuffed Mr. Ma, took his cell phone, and threatened Mr. Ma's boss not to tell anybody about this incident.

The police pushed Mr. Ma into a van and took him to the Xishacheng Township government court, where police chief Zhang Wanfu verbally abused him and attempted to force him to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. Mr. Ma did not comply. They handcuffed him to a metal chair overnight, and then sent him to a detention center, where he was held for 15 days.

Officers from the Xishacheng Township Police Station transferred Mr. Ma on August 9, 2008, from the detention center to the Huai'an County's Shajiatun Brainwashing Center. This facility is composed of staff members from the Huai'an County 610 Office, and officers from various public security offices, the court and township governments officials. It was set up solely for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The brainwashing center is under tight security with a locked gate. Detained practitioners are forbidden to move around freely. They have to report when they want to use the restroom. Two people monitor an interior room, and staff members from the public security offices and the court take turns to watch the exterior room. Among the staff who monitor the practitioners are the 610 Office head surnamed Zhao, another one surnamed Zhu, and two other people from the Xishacheng Township, one with the surname Liu and the other's surname is Wang. They made frequent attempts to force the practitioners to write guarantee statements to renounce Falun Gong. Mr. Ma did not comply, and was subsequently detained for 50 days.