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Rao Mianhua Arrested Again After Being Paralyzed as a Result of the Persecution
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Rao Mianhua, a Falun Dafa practitioner from
Wuxue City, Hubei Province, was blinded and paralyzed as a result of the
persecution, and now relies on a wheelchair to move around. Even in this
condition, the local police officers often harass her at her home. Recently,
they arrested her in mid-June. After five days on a hunger strike, she was
released in an emaciated state. Ms. Rao, 42, is from Jianjialin Village, Wuxue City, Hubei Province. After
she began practicing Falun Dafa in 1997, her stomach cancer and many other
illnesses were healed without medical treatment. She was steadfast in her
beliefs after July 20, 1999, so the Public Security Office and the 610 Office in
Wuxue City arrested her and detained her in the Shizishan Drug Rehabilitation
Center in Wuhan City in 2000 and 2001. During the detention, she suffered
inhuman torture to the extent that she lost her eyesight and was paralyzed from
the waist down before they released her. She now relies on a wheelchair to move
around. After the exposure of Ms. Rao's persecution on the Internet, police officers
from the 610 Office continued to harass her. Police from the Qinglin police
station publicly threatened to arrest her. On May 28, 2005, Tian Shuijin, the
secretary of the local office in charge of the persecution, obtained a search
warrant and led six or seven plain-clothes policemen to search her house. They
took away her son's MP3 player (for English Fa-study) and her Falun Dafa
exercise tape, books, and truth-clarification material. Between June 14-16, Ms. Rao went to the Public Security Office and the
Qinglin Police Station three times to ask for the return of the Falun Dafa
books, truth-clarification material, and her son's MP3 player. As a result, she
was locked up. While jailed, she refused food and water for five days. They
eventually let her go because of her physical condition. Posting date: 7/19/2005 |