(Minghui.org) Ms. Xue Caiping was forced to drink a liquid “nutrient” while being held for her faith in Falun Gong in 2021. The 49-year-old woman was diagnosed with ovarian cancer months later and had her uterus and ovaries removed. She got better, only to see her cancer return around June 2023. She had another operation and is now bedridden and has completely lost the ability to walk or care for herself. She also has systemic edema and blood in her urine.
After talking to other Falun Gong practitioners jailed for their faith, Ms. Xue realized that the “nutrient” she was forced to drink while in detention may very well have been a toxic drug and likely induced her cancer as she had been illness free since she took up Falun Gong in 2014.
Ms. Xue’s ordeal stemmed from her arrest on March 24, 2021. She was sentenced to 3.5 years in January 2022. Due to her condition, she is currently on bail and has not yet started serving time.
Taking up Falun Gong
Ms. Xue Caiping, a native of Henan Province, moved to Yantai City, Shandong Province, after she got married in 2010. Due to years of hard work as a hairdresser, she suffered from a frozen shoulder and a herniated disc. Because she also had to take care of her father-in-law with heart disease and high blood pressure and her mother-in-law with cancer, she also had headaches, insomnia, chest pain, and blood in her stool. Unable to afford medical care, she never went to the hospital.
In 2014, Ms. Xue began to practice Falun Gong. She passed a 2 by 15-cm (1 by 6-inch) black clot. After only two months, she completely recovered from all her symptoms.
Arrested Twice in Shandong Province
For talking to people about Falun Gong’s health benefits on October 22, 2017, Ms. Xue was arrested by Jinqiao Police Station officers. They held her in the Yantai City Detention Center for a month before releasing her on bail on November 21, 2017. Her husband paid her 6,000-yuan bail bond. Unable to bear the pressure, he divorced her and was given custody of their son.
Ms. Xue mailed letters to government officials, urging them not to participate in the persecution. She was arrested again on September 11, 2019, by officers of the Fulai Police Station. Her Falun Gong books, cellphone, and 50 letters she hadn’t mailed out were confiscated. She was detained in the Yantai City Detention Center for 30 days and released on bail on October 11. Her ex-husband paid her 2,000-yuan bail bond.
Arrested a Third Time in Guangdong Province, Forced to Drink Mysterious Liquid Drug
Ms. Xue went to Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, for a job opportunity shortly after her release. For distributing information about Falun Gong, she was arrested by Chen Guirong and Lai Xichang of the Changxing Police Station on March 24, 2021. When she refused to recite the inmate rules at the Tangxia Detention Center, the guards forced her to clean the restroom and confiscated her toothpaste and toilet paper. She could only wash herself after each restroom use.
After two months of detention, Ms. Xue held a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was held in the basement of the detention center by guard Zhang. Four days into her hunger strike, the detention center doctor came in with a cup of liquid and ordered her to drink it. He said it was a nutrient solution and only after she drank it would she be allowed to return to her cell.
Ms. Xue drank the liquid as instructed. That night, she had excruciating pain in her lower abdomen. She had to squat and was unable to stand up for a long time. She thought it was strange that the guards didn’t come in and order her to stand up. In the past when she got tired from standing the night shift and squatted to take a break, the guards always came in right away.
After that, Ms. Xue’s abdomen kept getting bigger and she also had trouble eating. By October 2021, it looked like she was eight months pregnant. Only then did the detention center take her to the Police Hospital in the Tianhe District. The doctors there seemed to be shocked as they read her test results but didn’t tell her anything. The detention center released her on bail and notified her sister, a Guangzhou resident, to pick her up.
Ms. Xue’s sister took her to three hospitals. Both the Guangzhou City 8th Hospital and Guangzhou City People’s Hospital diagnosed her with late-stage ovarian cancer but advised against surgery for fear that she might die on the operating table. Her sister then took her to the Guangdong City Second People’s Hospital, where she was operated on on December 24, 2021. The doctors removed her uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries and 25 liters of fluid. She was unable to eat for 39 days.
Ms. Xue later gradually recovered by doing the Falun Gong exercises.
Sentenced to 3.5 Years in 2022, Cancer Returns in 2023
The Haizhu District Court in Guangzhou City initially set a court date for December 2, 2021, but postponed it until January 2022. In a virtual hearing, judge Jia Cunjin sentenced Ms. Xue to 3.5 years. Her savings account with 2,500 yuan was frozen by the court. Due to her health, she was allowed to remain out on bail.
While Ms. Xue was recovering in her sister’s home, Chen Guirong of the Changxing Police Station kept harassing her. Not wanting to disturb her sister, Ms. Xue returned to her hometown in Henan in January 2023, but the Guangzhou police still called to harass her.
By June 2023, Ms. Xue’s abdomen looked like she was very pregnant again. None of her relatives were willing to let her stay with them, fearing she might die there. Out of options, she called her ex-husband, who lent a helping hand. She was operated on again at the 107 Hospital in Yantai and had over 10 liters of fluid removed. She was also given three rounds of chemotherapy, but that made her feel even weaker, so she decided not to continue.
From talking to other practitioners who had been persecuted before, Ms. Xue realized that the cup of liquid she was given at the Tangxia Detention Center could very likely have been a toxic drug that caused her cancer.
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