Elderly Couple Both Lose Their Eyesight Due To Persecution by "610 Office" in Changde City, Hunan Province

(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Hou Jinyuan is 59-years-old, and her husband, Mr. Jia Shilin, is 62. They are residents of Baiyanghu Village, Hunan Province. As they were both Falun Gong practitioners, they were forcibly taken to the Changde City Brainwashing Center on December 24, 2000. Because over 60 Dafa practitioners detained there had righteous thoughts and refused to cooperate with the brainwashing center's demands, the brainwashing failed. All the Dafa practitioners were sent back to their respective districts for detention on March 18, 2001.

On January 13, 2002, Hou Jinyuan conducted a hunger strike to resist the illegal, long-term detention. On January 17, Jia Chunping, the vice-director of the "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] in Shimen County took Hou to the No. 13 section (psychosis ward) of the People's Hospital and forcibly injected her with an unknown drug. It was entirely the choice of Jia Chunping to decide what drug was to be used. That day, he administered Hou Jinyuan with an intramuscular injection and IV fluid for 4 hours. After the injection, the elderly lady felt that her forehead and tongue had become numb. When the nurse gave the injection on the third day, she told Hou Jinyuan in low voice: "Aunty, you have to eat. With continued injections of this kind, your whole body and all your internal organs will wither, so you will suffer agony until death." After the injection on the fifth day, both of Hou Jinyuan's legs became numb and lost feeling when she tried to stand. By the end of January, both of the elderly lady's legs were paralyzed, and both eyes were blurry. After the Chinese New Year (February 12), she was completely blind in both eyes.

The elderly Jia Shilin was detained in a dark and damp ward on the first level of the County Detention Centre. Due to the long-term detention, he also lost his eyesight in July 2001.

When Hou Jinyuan was detained in the hospital, the "610 Office" ordered the town of Mengquan to send 2 people to moniter her, but the "610 Office" refused to pay for it. The Mengquan Town government could not afford it, moreover, they knew that Jiang's regime had allocated 80,000 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China] to the "610 Office" to persecute Falun Gong, so they withdrew those 2 staff members on March 22, 2002. Under this situation in which nobody was willing to help the wicked people do bad deeds, the "610 Office" had to send the two elderly practitioners, who had both lost their eyesight, home on March 24, 2002.

Because both are now blind, it has become very difficult for them to take care of themselves.

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