Hui Lui Ng died last Wednesday, two days after his 34th birthday, in a Rhode Island hospital after being diagnosed with terminal cancer and a fractured spine. For months, Mr. Ng had been trapped in jail cells in East Coast detention facilities and told to "stop faking" when he asked for medical attention.

"He said, ‘I told the nursing department, I'm in pain, but they don't believe me,' " his sister recalled. " ‘They tell me, stop faking.' "

 

Soon, according to court papers, he had to rely on other detainees to help him reach the toilet, bring him food and call his family; he no longer received painkillers, because he could not stand in line to collect them. On July 26, Andy Wong, a lawyer associated with [Mr. Ng's lawyer] Mr. [Theodore] Cox, came to see the detainee, but had to leave without talking to him, he said, because Mr. Ng was too weak to walk to the visiting area, and a wheelchair was denied.

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Then contact your members of Congress and tell them to support the Detainee Medical Care Act and the Secure and Safe Detention and Asylum Act, two bills that could have helped save Mr. Ng's life.