(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.
