Practitioner Ma Hongjun, a 37 year-old former section chief in the National Security Ministry, is locked up in Beijing's Zhaoyang Detention Center. Ma Hongjun was arrested by police and persecuted because he practices Falun Dafa. The first time he was arrested, he was lucky and escaped, but the second time he had to undergo to an extended brainwashing program that lasted 3 months and where he was continually tortured. Only when he fell unconscious and was near death did they send him to the hospital. After two days and nights in the hospital he woke up from unconsciousness. Many of his ribs were broken. Presently he has already been sent many times to the hospital to have his life saved. Currently, Ma Hongjun's body is in critical condition. His whole body has edema and he has already been to the hospital twice for procedures related to his condition. In the detention center, he often rolls on the ground because of unbearable pain induced by torture. He has been sentenced to eight years in prison, but because his life was in danger, after the detention center police took him out of the hospital to send him to prison, the prison would not accept him.

In the detention center, Ma Hongjun saves up the money his family sends him to buy personal commodities such as laundry detergent, toilet paper, toothpaste, and etc and gives it to others. He would donate his own clothing to anyone without enough clothes to wear. If a criminal detained there was pessimistic about life, or was short-tempered, Ma Hongjun would use the principles of Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance to enlighten and ignite a ray of hope within them. When Ma Hongjun's health started improving, he took the initiative to clean up his prison cell. His every word and every deed inspired the criminals detained there. Why should a good person like him encounter such persecution?

Ma Hongjun was a former section chief in the National Security Ministry. It was because he persisted in practicing Falun Gong that he suffered persecution and has now been devastated to the point where his life is in severe danger.