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Name: Ma GuozhongChinese Name: 马国忠Gender: MaleAge: 50City: MengziProvince: YunnanOccupation: FarmerDate of Death: December 2, 2023Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 3, 2010Most Recent Place of Detention: Yunnan Province First Prison
A farmer in Gaojiazhai Village, Mengzi City, Yunnan Province, was given injections of unknown drugs for one month while serving time for his faith in Falun Gong, and had splitting headaches as a result. He further developed whole-body edema and stroke symptoms after being released from prison in August 2013. He died on December 2, 2023, at the age of 50.
Mr. Ma Guozhong was arrested at home on July 3, 2010, by more than fifty police officers. They confiscated his computer, printer, CD burners, and Falun Gong books. The police also seized his wife. The couple’s elementary-school-age child and an elderly parent were left at home to fend for themselves.
Mr. Ma’s wife was later released, but he was sentenced to four years in prison. He appealed but lost.
The guards at the Yunnan Province First Prison subjected Mr. Ma and other jailed Falun Gong practitioners to various forms of abuse, including beatings, straight-jackets, pepper spray, handcuffing and shackling, confinement in a metal cage, force-feeding, and injections of unknown drugs.
Mr. Ma was once given injections of unknown drugs for an entire month, and he suffered splitting headaches as a result. An inmate assigned to monitor him became sympathetic. One day when no other inmates were around, that inmate emptied the IV bottle. Mr. Ma’s headache went away for the rest of that day.
Mr. Ma was released ahead of time in August 2013. He soon developed whole body edema and stroke symptoms, and he could not work. The Mengzi City 610 Office and the Wenlan Town Police Station kept harassing him at home. His edema became so severe in October 2023 that his weight reached 218 pounds. Not long after though he was just skin and bones, with his skin wrinkled. He died on December 2, 2023.
Prior to his prison sentence, Mr. Ma was targeted at least one other time for raising awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong. When he was invited to record a fellow villager’s wedding ceremony, he incorporated footage about Falun Gong in the video, which was then used as evidence to arrest him (exact time unknown).
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