Ms. Ma Xiulan was arrested for passing out materials to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. After being abused in the detention center for six months, she died in a military police hospital.
Without any legal documents, the police arrested Ms. Liang Yuzhen and searched her house on February 25, 2009, because she distributed Falun Gong informational materials in the countryside.
Ms. Ma Xiulan, 69, Dies Due to Abuse in Detention (Photo)
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ma Xiulan, 69 years old, lived in Nanhai District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province. On June 19, 2008, she was illegally arrested and detained in Nanhai District Detention Center. On January 6, 2009, the Center suddenly notified her family to pick her up from the Military Police Hospital in Guangzhou City. The doctor said she had an incurable condition. Ms. Ma died on March 16, 2009.
Above are photos of Ms. Ma Xiulan before and after her detention. In only six months, a once healthy woman was abused until she was emaciated and paralyzed.
Ms. Ma Xiulan was from Shandong Province. She came to live with her two daughters approximately a dozen years ago. At the time she was very sick, but she fully recovered after cultivating Falun Gong. She became rosy cheeked and calm in mind. When the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Ms. Ma went to Beijing to appeal.
The police arrested her, took her to her hometown in Shandong Province, and detained her. After she returned to Nanhai District, the city 610 Office locked her up in the brainwashing center in Shunde District for two months. Since then she has been followed, closely monitored, and her home was ransacked many times.
On June 19, 2008, Ms. Ma was passing out truth-clarifying materials in Diejiao Community when she was arrested by officers from Diejiao Police Station, and detained in Nanhai District Detention Center. She was inhumanly tortured, forced to sleep on the cement floor, shocked with an electric baton, and beaten, resulting in bruises all over her body. She became thinner and thinner, weaker and weaker, until she could not eat or drink, could not have a bowel movement, and became emaciated. The detention center administration never told her family of her health condition. They withheld the money and other items her family sent to Ms. Ma, and did they not notify her family about when she would be put on trial. Her family traveled everywhere in vain to find information about her.
On December 30, 2008, her family went to the court to find out Ms. Ma's trial time and were told that it was that very afternoon afternoon. However, the Procurator told them it was scheduled on December 22, 2008, a few days earlier. At 3:00 p.m. that day, Ms. Ma was carried into the court. She could not walk, and could not recognize her daughter who called out to her. The judge said he would sentence her to three years in prison. Ms. Ma's family asked to post bail for medical parole, but the judge refused.
On January 6, 2009, Ms. Ma's daughter received a call from the detention center asking her to pick up her mother from the Military Police Hospital in Guangzhou City. Her family requested her medical record from the doctor, but were refused. The guards would not allow them to contact the doctors. At the time she was released, Ms. Ma Xiulan was paralyzed and dying. Her family immediately took her to the hospital, but the doctors said there was nothing they could do to save her.
The Arrest of Ms. Liang Yuzhen from Heshan City, Guangdong Province
At around 3 p.m. on February 25, 2009, Ms. Liang Yuzhen was arrested by police officers from Heshan City. She was reported to the police while she distributed Falun Gong informational materials in the countryside. At 9:00 p.m., her home was ransacked.
The police took Ms. Liang, whose hands were handcuffed behind her back, to her home. Only her 89-year-old grandmother was there. The police didn't show any search warrant but searched her home anyway, leaving her apartment in a mess. They also confiscated what cash she had at home and took some of the informational materials, as well as Falun Gong books, her brother's computer, and other items. The whole process lasted about an hour. When they were taking her away, her grandmother held her and said, "I need my granddaughter to take care of me." The police forcefully loosened the grandmother's hands and took Liang Yuzhen with them.
The police didn't have any legal documents for her arrest, to search the home, or for her detention. On the morning of February 26, a call from the Heshan Detention Center indicated that Ms. Liang was detained there. Her family members were very worried about her.
Liang Yuzhen and her sister had been arrested in 2000. At that time, while in the detention center, Ms. Liang went on a hunger strike for over ten days. She suffered from brutal force-feeding. Later she was sentenced to two years of forced labor and suffered two years of maltreatment in Sanshui Women's Forced Labor Camp.
Since July 20, 1999, Ms. Liang and her sister have been arrested, detained, or send to forced labor several times. After she was released from the forced labor camp, she was forced to go from place to place for a long time. Police officers often went to her house to harass her. Her phone was monitored.