(Minghui.org) Ms. Xing Guiling became mentally disoriented after serving one year at a forced labor camp between 2012 and 2013 for her faith in Falun Gong. She finally regained some mental clarity in 2025 and remembered that she had been force-fed unknown drugs in the labor camp.

Ms. Xing, of Guan County, Shandong Province, was arrested on April 10, 2012, when she went to the Guan County Detention Center to demand the release of local practitioners who had been wrongfully detained. She was taken to a brainwashing center. Because she refused to renounce Falun Gong, they transferred her to a forced labor camp to serve a one-year term. There were two labor camps: the Shandong Province First Women’s Forced Labor Camp in Jinan City, and the Shandong Province Second Women’s Forced Labor Camp in Zibo City. It’s unclear which one Ms. Xing was held at.

By the time Ms. Xing was released, she had become mentally disoriented. She could not live on her own or communicate with others. Her family had to watch her closely; otherwise she would wander away, and it would take days to locate her.

Between August and September of 2025, Ms. Xing’s condition improved and she regained some mental clarity. She recalled that she was force-fed a bowl of congee-like paste while in the labor camp and that she was in a coma for days afterward. She also said that several people kicked her and stomped on her feet.

Prior to her labor camp detention, Ms. Xing and her husband Mr. Wang Hongchao, also a Falun Gong practitioner, had been targeted earlier.

The couple was arrested on July 8, 2008, at their rental property in Linqing City of the same province, by a dozen officers from Guan County. They confiscated the couple’s two electric bikes, one motorcycle, one DVD player, and other valuables. Three officers also harassed their daughter at her middle school and tricked her into signing a document, without revealing the content. Terrified, the young girl didn’t dare to return to school. She dropped out and stayed home.

Ms. Xing was soon released, but was taken back into custody at the Guan County Brainwashing Center in late August 2008 for an unknown period of time. Her husband Mr. Wang was sentenced to eight years by the Guan County Court in 2009. He served time at the Shandong Province Prison in the capital of Jinan.

During that time, Ms. Xing had to take care of her in-laws, in their 70s, and her two young children.

Ms. Xing went to visit Mr. Wang in September 2010 during the Mid-Autumn Festival, a holiday for family reunions. She waited a day, but the guards wouldn’t allow her to see her husband. With nowhere else to go, she stayed in the woods outside the prison at night. In the middle of the night, two men came to scare her. The next morning, two men teased her at the bus station (it’s not clear whether they were the same people that scared her the night before). When she returned to the prison to visit Mr. Wang a month later, she saw two guards, who were the same two men whom she encountered at the bus station.

Ms. Xing was denied visitation with Mr. Wang again on April 22, 2011. When she refused to leave, the prison called the police and accused her of “disrupting social order.” She refused to get into the police car. The police pepper-sprayed her and took her to the police station. She held a hunger strike to protest and was released two days later.