(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Ma Yingxuan is nearly 70 years old and lives in
Xinan Town, Xinyi City, Jiangsu Province. He started practicing Falun Dafa in
the spring of 1996. In January 2002, Mr. Ma's nephew rented a room in a building
at the Xinan Town intersection and used it as a barbershop. He played Dafa music
in his shop and this was reported to the township's local police station by
Public Security officer Qiao Sundaier. Mr. Ma's nephew was then arrested by a
local police officer surnamed Geng, who brutally tortured Mr. Ma's nephew in
order to extort evidence from him. When Ma's nephew finally couldn't bear the
torture any longer, he told the police about Mr. Ma Yingxuan. Mr. Ma was
arrested on the evening of January 27. The police let him suffer in a cold cell
overnight. At eight o'clock the second day, Mr. Ma was handcuffed to an
Iron Chair. The police took turns trampling on Mr. Ma and accused
him of hanging a Falun Gong banner in the barbershop. In the afternoon, the
police hung Mr. Ma up by his handcuffs. The pain was so severe that he had to
bite hard to stop his teeth from chattering. Still, he refused to give the
police the names of other practitioners. After his body no longer moved, an
instructor named Feng told the other police officers to let him down and untie
him. On February 14, 2002, he was finally free to go home. Mr. Ma had been
illegally detained for half a month in a detention center.
On February 28, 2002, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel from Xinyi City
visited Mr. Ma and tried to force him to write a so called "Guarantee
Statement" not to practice Falun Gong. They gave him three days to write
the statement, but Mr. Ma refused. As a result he was forced to leave home to
avoid further persecution. He became destitute and homeless, wandering around
Linyi, Tancheng County, Shandong Province, to keep from being arrested again.
In the morning of March 5, 2002, Mr. Ma went to Tancheng Town to visit a
practitioner, Ms. Yang Meizhong, to get truth-clarification
materials. He was arrested by 610 Office personnel, Director Liu
Yuhong, and Assistant Director Zhuge from Tancheng County. He was imprisoned at
the Chengdong local police station. Police officers confiscated 273 yuan
from Mr. Ma, money which he had earned through his hard labor working in a rice
field. Later, Mr. Ma was taken to the Tancheng police station and was
interrogated by officers eight times, including officers from Xinan City. The
police handcuffed him and covered his head with a black bag each time they
brought him in for interrogation. In the police station, Mr. Ma was so badly
tortured that there were all kinds of injuries all over him. Even though there
was a warning sign in the prison corridor entrance that stated "Striking
and torturing prisoners is forbidden," the prison warden and his guards
ignored the rule. Improper treatment of Falun Gong practitioners was prevalent
throughout this eighteen-cell prison complex.
Later, Mr. Ma was sentenced to a three-and-a-half-year term. Ms. Yang Meizhong was sentenced to eight years and another elderly practitioner, Ms. Ma Guiju, was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor. On October 10, 2006, Mr. Ma Yingxuan and five young practitioners were sent to do hard labor working in a coal cellar at the Weishan jail. However, Weishan jail officials didn't want to accept Mr. Ma, so he was taken back to the police station. On October 20, 2006, Mr. Ma was then taken to the Taian jail and was imprisoned under heavy security, including being watched 24 hours a day by surveillance cameras, guards, and prison inmates who acted as informers. The nearly 70-year-old Mr. Ma finally was released prison and went home in 2008.
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