Name: Ma Lili (马莉莉)
Gender: Female
Age: 49
Occupation: Railway worker at Jia'anzi Station in Tangshan
City
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 16, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Shijiazhuang Women's Prison
(石家庄女子监狱)
City: Shijiazhuang
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, forced labor,
brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, solitary
confinement, torture, detention, bound to an iron chair
(Clearwisdom.net) On April 20, 2011, accompanied by other family members, the 76-year-old mother of Ma Lili visited her daughter at Shijiazhuang Women's Prison in Hebei Province. This was the first time she was allowed to see her daughter, a Falun Gong practitioner, since she was illegally arrested eight months prior. The family drove several hundred kilometers from Tangshan City to Shijiazhuang City to see Ma Lili.
Ms. Ma Lili is being detained in the No. 14 Prison Ward, where vicious brainwashing is conducted on newcomers. The family's visitation request was initially rejected with the excuse that Ma Lili refused to give up her beliefs. In the end, only the mother was allowed to see her daughter. When the mother was asked to advise her daughter to give up Falun Gong, the old woman said, "My daughter is a good person. She is innocent." Guard Ma Li was arranged to supervise the meeting. After just a few words were exchanged between mother and daughter, the guard suddenly and forcefully grabbed Ms. Ma Lili's hands and took her away.
Ms. Ma Lili was arrested on August 16, 2010 by police from Jianshilu Police Station because she distributed Falun Gong truth-clarification materials. She was detained for 15 days. Officer Chen Bin reported her to a higher authority, and she was then sent to the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan, where she had been detained twice before. Upon arriving, Kaiping Forced Labor Camp officials refused to accept her. She was then sent to the No. 1 Detention Center.
During her detention, her parents and other family members visited Jianshilu Police Station, Tangshan Detention Center, and Lubei Court to request her release. However, their efforts were in vain.
In January 2011, Ms. Ma Lili was secretly sentenced to three years of imprisonment by the Lubei Court. Her family learned the news afterward when they visited the court. Ms. Ma was transferred to Shijiazhuang Women's Prison on March 15. Her family was not informed of the news and was unable to see her before she was sent away.
Ms. Ma, 49, used to have many ailments, including headaches, severe stomach spasms, and rheumatism. After practicing Falun Gong for three months in 1996, she fully recovered. She has been following the principles of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance, striving to be a good person.
Ms. Ma was first arrested in June 2000 when she went to Beijing to appeal to the government. She was first detained at the Tangshan No. 2 Detention Center and then subjected to two years of forced labor at the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp.
Ms. Ma was arrested again in May 2003, when she was clarifying the facts about Falun Gong. She was detained at the Tangshan No. 2 Detention Center for two months, during which time she was tortured. She was once bound to an iron chair for four consecutive days. She was later subjected to three more years of forced labor at the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp.
Ms. Ma is currently detained in Shijiazhuang Women's Prison and being forced to undergo brainwashing sessions. She has high blood pressure, nephritis, and has become very thin.
Relevant phone numbers:
Jianshilu Police Station: 86-315-2824442
Lubei Procuratorate: 86-315-3724090
Shijiazhuang Women's Prison: 86-315-83939635
Feng Huizhi, ward head: 86-13503338384
Xu Yan: 86-13932147831
Du Lijing: 86-13731123361
Ge Shuguang, head of the education section: 86-311-83939595,
86-311-83939727 (Office),
86-13722997678 (Cell)
