Rights Defense Network: Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience Detained in Mainland China (May 31, 2026), Issue 128 (1,661 People in Total)
This report was compiled, written and published by the Information Center of China Human Rights Defenders May 31, 2026
Contents:
Preface
I. Overview of this report
II. Names and biographies of the 44 people from the previous list who were released after completing their sentences, as learned this month
III. Updates on 37 people in prison learned during this reporting period (with biographies)
1. Two people from the previous list were sentenced during this reporting period
3 years and 3 months: Guo Hongying
1 year: Wu Qiang
2. Updates on 35 people in prison, including the “October 9” case group (18 people), Xie Yang, Zhao Haitong, Reila Dawut, Zou Wei, Dai Zhichao, Feng Guichun, Wang Yifei, Xu Lin, Wong Chi-fung, Ke Yiu-lam, Ma Ling, Ju Dianhong, Gao Xin, Zhou Songlin, Ding Zhongfu, Dong Yuyu and Chang Yuchun
IV. Names and biographies of the 10 people newly subjected to criminal detention or enforced disappearance during this reporting period
Bai Zhaodong, Wei Yongqiang, He Jinbao, Quan Xiaolong, Long Jian,
Cheng Yongbing, Zhou Guixia, Yu Shaolin, Li Qin, Luo Ping,
V. Names and biographies of the 13 people newly sentenced during this reporting period
VI. Statistical table of prison terms for the 1,661 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience detained in mainland China during this reporting period
VII. Index of the 1,661 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience detained in mainland China during this reporting period
Preface:
China Human Rights Defenders: Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Mainland China is the latest monthly report compiled and written by the Information Center of China Human Rights Defenders, which each month summarizes and counts the cases of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience currently detained without trial, subjected to enforced disappearance or already sentenced in mainland China.
Beginning with Issue 101 of this monthly report, the report was completely revised. At the same time, since the China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) China Mainland Prisoners of Conscience Databasehttps://tenchu.org/pocd/public/ has included all the prisoners of conscience mentioned in our monthly reports, beginning with Issue 101 we have stopped displaying in the monthly report the biographies of the vast majority of prisoners of conscience who have no updates during the month.
We will continue to attach the list of detained prisoners of conscience to the report. Readers can log in to the China Mainland Prisoners of Conscience Database by name at https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/ to look up all relevant information, which is very convenient.
The China Mainland Prisoners of Conscience Database not only includes prisoners of conscience and political prisoners currently detained; information on prisoners of conscience and political prisoners who have been released or have died can also be found in the database. The collection of the China Mainland Prisoners of Conscience Database began in January 2019. As of May 29, 2026, it contained information on a total of 4,250 prisoners of conscience.
This report focuses primarily on all detained political prisoners and prisoners of conscience—including those who have been sentenced and those detained without trial—for whom we have been able to collect definite information. The report makes every effort to collect, write and edit information on political prisoners and prisoners of conscience from the many ethnic groups in mainland China, including Han, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, Mongolian, Korean and Manchu people, striving to reflect comprehensively and truthfully the current harsh living conditions of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in mainland China.
For ease of inquiry and searching, this report provides a complete list of detained persons arranged entirely in the pinyin order of the names of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners. At the same time, this report continues to compile statistics on the sentences of all prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, with those detained without trial listed at the end.
Once a person on this report’s list is released on bail pending trial, released on medical parole, acquitted, placed under residential surveillance at home, given a suspended sentence or released after completing a sentence, they will be removed from the report’s official list of detainees, but their biography will be displayed in the current report.
This report is published every month without interruption and updated every issue. It embodies the long-term, unpublicized hard work and dedication of many volunteers, information providers and editors. Over the past decade, this website has collected, organized and edited the names and biographies of nearly 4,000 people for whom relatively detailed information was available.
This figure represents the enormous efforts made by all our staff under conditions of great risk. The reason this report can be published regularly and on time, with increasingly detailed information, is also the active feedback and support of many human rights defenders in mainland China. We hereby thank all the friends who have provided information.
For more than a decade, this website has continuously summarized and reported on the circumstances of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in mainland China. This is intended to protest and condemn the torture inflicted on prisoners of conscience and political prisoners by the Chinese Communist authorities through various means, including detention beyond the statutory period, delaying trials, abuse, torture and beatings. Being tortured and abused in Chinese Communist prisons is a harsh reality that detainees must frequently face.
We firmly believe that the outside world’s persistent attention will provide spiritual and substantive assistance to those suffering in prison! This report’s systematic exposure of the Chinese Communist authorities’ use of various forms of torture to persecute and torment political prisoners and prisoners of conscience has already provoked strong reactions from all quarters in China and abroad.
We have continuously updated and compiled the latest information and publish this monthly report at the end of each month, expressing through it our concern for and remembrance of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience who have lost their freedom. Through it, we also tell the world not to forget these people who are enduring suffering for freedom, democracy and human rights.
We believe that the regular updating and publication of this report can directly reflect the current human rights situation in mainland China—because the circumstances of a country’s political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are among the most important human rights indicators of that country.
Through this report, we expose the current poor human rights situation in mainland China and the tragic circumstances of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, striving to awaken the international community’s memory of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience detained in China and to elicit continuous attention and appeals until they are free.
We believe that regularly making public the names and circumstances of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners is one way we can provide these victims with practical and effective support. We know that nothing causes these prisoners of conscience and political prisoners greater despair and pain than being forgotten.
Therefore, we must shoulder this work, and indeed this mission.
Ten years of trials and tribulations have passed, and there will still be countless difficulties and dangers on the road ahead. But with your support, we will continue to move forward bravely as before!
Finally, although this report has been carefully verified by our Information Center and received assistance from many human rights defenders in mainland China, due to limitations of conditions we are still unable to compile complete information on all detained political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in a timely and accurate manner. What this report reflects is only the tip of the iceberg; it remains an incomplete report, and this requires our continued efforts!
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I. Overview of this report:
China Human Rights Defenders: Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Mainland China is updated every month and is a dynamic report on political prisoners and prisoners of conscience detained in China. This is Issue 128. By this point, the report has been published monthly for more than ten years.
This report contains a total of 57,000 Chinese characters. During this reporting period, all the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience on the previous report’s list were comprehensively checked one by one. We learned that 44 people on the previous list had been released after completing their sentences, and that 35 people had new developments in prison. At the same time, this report added the names and profiles of 10 people newly subjected to criminal detention or enforced disappearance and 13 people who had been sentenced, for a total of 23 people. At present, a total of 1,661 detained prisoners of conscience and political prisoners have been entered and published by name in this report.
For ease of inquiry, the Index of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience Detained in Mainland China is the sole index to the names in this report. The index is arranged in the pinyin order of names (ABCDEFG....WXYZ). At the same time, this report has compiled statistics on the sentences of all prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, with those detained without trial listed at the end.
II. Names and biographies of the 44 people from the previous list who were released after completing their sentences, as learned this month
Bai Xingwen, Chen Guilian, Chen Yinru, Chen Yujie, Cheng Guiying,
Dong Libiao, Jiang Haoqi, Li Lei, Qin Songfa, Shao Chengluo,
Wang Yanhui, Wang Ziming, Wen Juping, Wu Yanhua, Xing Ailing,
Xu Xiuzhen, You Haijun, Yu Yingzhu, Zhang Xia, Zhao Xiping,
Zhu Zhongfu, Ding Yuande, Zhou Chunbao, Zhao Yukun, Ran Guanquan,
Yu Chuancheng, Liu Rangfang, Zheng Xiaohua, Li Xiuzhen, Zhu Yamei,
Hu Zhiwei, Fang Ruiqin, Huang Lijun, Ma Fumin, Tian Pengfei,
Zhou Min, Zhu Xixia, Tian Xiufen, Zhao Chunyan, Li Shuzhen,
Wang Yulan, Wu Dexiu, Xu Guang, Li Guiwen,
1. Bai Xingwen: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Dongying City, Shandong Province. She was nearly 70 in 2022 and lived in Xiezuo No. 2 Village, Gudao Town, Hekou District, Dongying City, Shandong Province. On July 15, 2021, Bai Xingwen and her daughter Ji Yingping were arrested at home by police from the Haibin branch. Nine days later, Bai Xingwen was released home on so-called “bail pending trial” because of her health. Bai Xingwen’s elder daughter Ji Yingmei had also practiced Falun Gong in earlier years. From the day Ji Yingmei was arrested by police from the Haibin branch on July 15, 2021, in less than one year and three months she experienced high-pressure persecution by the Chinese Communist Party physically, economically and mentally, and died with grievances on the morning of October 9, 2022, at only 45 years of age. On September 19, 2022, Bai Xingwen was again arrested by police from the Binhai Municipal Public Security Bureau and held in the Binhai Municipal Detention Center. On November 8, 2022, a Dongying District Court judge sentenced Bai Xingwen to three years and six months in prison and fined her 20,000 yuan through a video hearing. Sentence ends: May 7, 2026. Source:
https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2022/11/15/451939.html
2. Chen Guilian: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Qinzhou City, Guangxi. Born in 1957, she began practicing Falun Gong in 1997. She is from Qinnan District, Qinzhou City, Guangxi; she previously lived in Fangchenggang and later resided in the Dongnan Community of Qinnan District. She was arrested and framed in May 2022 by the Nanliu Police Station of Qinnan District. In March 2023, she was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 20,000 yuan. Sentence ends: May 2026. Source:https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2023/5/20/%E5%B9%BF%E8%A5%BF%E9%92%A6%E5%B7%9E%E5%B8%82%E9%99%88%E6%A1%82%E8%8E%B2%E8%A2%AB%E9%9D%9E%E6%B3%95%E5%88%A4%E5%88%91%E5%9B%9B%E5%B9%B4-461047.html
3. Chen Yinru: A Falun Gong practitioner from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, born in 1954. He was formerly a battalion commander and major in the 38th Regiment of the 10th Tank Division stationed in Suzhou, and after leaving the military served as a customer manager at China United Property Insurance Company. He began practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. Chen Yinru persisted in practicing Falun Gong and distributing Falun Gong materials to the public, was arrested by police many times and sentenced four times. On May 19, 2022, he was reported and arrested by local police while distributing truth-clarification materials in his hometown of Yancheng City. In early February 2023, he was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 10,000 yuan by the Dafeng District Court of Yancheng City, and was held in Suzhou Prison. Sentence ends: May 18, 2026. Source: https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2023/3/4/457391.html
4. Chen Yujie: A Falun Gong practitioner from Jincheng Town, Linghai City, Jinzhou, Liaoning. She was arrested, detained and framed on May 25, 2021. She was tried in November and sentenced to five years. On March 4, 2022, she was sent to Liaoning Women’s Prison for continued detention. Sentence ends: May 24, 2026. Source:http://4.31.18.88/mh/articles/2022/3/12/%E8%BE%BD%E5%AE%81%E7%9C%81%E5%87%8C%E6%B5%B7%E5%B8%82%E9%99%88%E7%8E%89%E6%B4%81%E9%81%AD%E5%86%A4%E5%88%A4%E4%BA%94%E5%B9%B4%E5%85%A5%E7%8B%B1-439948.html
5. Cheng Guiying: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Nankai District, Tianjin. Because of her faith in Falun Gong, on May 17, 2018, Cheng Guiying and her sister Cheng Guijing were arrested by Tianjin police. On June 22, Cheng Guiying and Cheng Guijing were formally arrested by the procuratorate. Zhang Wei of the preliminary-trial section of the Nankai branch subsequently submitted materials framing them to the Nankai Procuratorate for prosecution three times, on the grounds that the two had used mobile phones to describe the facts and truth of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners; the materials were returned twice for insufficient evidence. On January 13, 2020, the Nankai Court imposed heavy sentences and extorted large fines: Cheng Guiying was wrongfully sentenced to eight years and fined 40,000 yuan; Cheng Guijing was wrongfully sentenced to nine years and fined 50,000 yuan. Cheng Guiying and Cheng Guijing appealed. The Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate Court rejected the appeal and upheld the original judgment. The family was demanded to pay a large fine. She was held in the Nankai Detention Center. Sentence ends: May 16, 2026. Source:
https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2020/9/22/%E8%A2%AB%E6%9E‰
6. Dong Libiao: A Falun Gong practitioner from Yushu City, Jilin Province, born in 1959, originally from Jishu Town, Shulan City, Jilin. In November 2007, he was arrested and framed by police from the Shulan Municipal Public Security Bureau and sentenced to nine years. After returning home from prison, he was harassed many times by police and others in Jishu Town, Shulan, and was forced to wander to Yushu City. In November 2022, Dong Libiao was again arrested and his home was raided. In July 2023, it was learned that he had been sentenced to three years and six months by the Dehui City Court and transferred to Gongzhuling Prison to serve his sentence. Sentence ends: May 2026.
7. Jiang Haoqi: A Falun Gong practitioner from Binhai County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. In May 2021, Jiang Haoqi, Dong Lili and Luo Yun were arrested and persecuted in the Yancheng Detention Center for distributing Falun Gong materials. In the second half of 2022, all were sentenced: Jiang Haoqi received five years, his fiancée Dong Lili four years, and his mother Luo Yun four years and six months. All had been imprisoned. Jiang Haoqi’s sentence ends: May 2026. Source:https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2023/5/12/460174.html
8. Li Lei: A Falun Gong practitioner from Ninghe District, Tianjin. On May 15, 2019, Li Guoqing’s wife Yu Bo and daughter Li Lei were suddenly arrested by the State Security Division of the Ninghe County Public Security Bureau while driving out. Police from the Ninghe District branch, together with police from the Lutai Town Police Station, then broke into Li Guoqing’s home, forcibly seized personal items including a printer and fax machine, and confiscated three cars belonging to him. Li Guoqing and daughter Li Lei were held at the Lutai Police Station; wife Yu Bo was criminally detained. The three members of the family were later held at the Ninghe District Detention Center. In early March 2020, the procuratorate submitted the case file framing them to the criminal division of the Ninghe District Court. It was recently learned that all three members of Li Guoqing’s family had been sentenced. In September 2021, after the family had been detained and framed for more than two years, it was learned that Li Guoqing had been wrongfully sentenced to 12 years, wife Yu Bo to 10 years, and daughter Li Lei to seven years. Li Lei’s sentence ends: May 14, 2026. Source:https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2021/9/4/%E5%A4%A9%E6%B4%A5%E6%9D%8E%E5%9B%BD%E5%BA%86%E4%B8%80%E5%AE%B6%E4%B8%89%E4%BA%BA%E8%A2%AB%E9%9D%9E%E6%B3%95%E5%88%A4%E5%88%91%E4%B8%83%E8%87%B3%E5%8D%81%E4%BA%8C%E5%B9%B4-430403.html
9. Qin Songfa: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Gaomi City, Shandong Province, born in 1953, living in Yimin Village, Xiazhuang Town, Gaomi City. His wife Xu Xiuzhen and daughter Qin Shaohua are also Falun Gong practitioners. Qin Songfa and his wife and daughter began practicing Falun Gong in 1998. After the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, the family repeatedly suffered persecution. Qin Songfa and Xu Xiuzhen were each sentenced twice, while their elder daughter Qin Shaohua was sent to a labor camp. While attempting to rescue his wife and daughter, who had suffered judicial persecution, Qin Songfa was arrested by police from the Xiazhuang Police Station on November 8, 2023, and held in the Gaomi City Detention Center. It was learned recently that he had been sentenced to two years and six months by the Gaomi City Court. This was the third time he had been illegally sentenced by a Chinese Communist court. Sentence ends: May 7, 2026. Sourcehttps://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2023/12/26_25.html
10. Shao Chengluo: 63, male, from Zhaocun, Liuting, Chengyang District, Qingdao, Shandong; a traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture doctor and Falun Gong practitioner. Because of his faith in Falun Gong, he was repeatedly abducted and persecuted by the Qingdao authorities, and was previously sent to a labor camp for three years and sentenced to seven years. At the Shandong Wangcun Labor Camp and Shandong Men’s Prison, he suffered more than 100 kinds of torture; his fingers were forcibly broken and his left big toe was smashed. On the afternoon of May 2, 2017, Shao Chengluo and his wife Gao Wenshu were reported while distributing Falun Gong materials in Xiazhuang Town and were immediately taken away by police from the Xiazhuang Police Station on charges involving the “evil cult.” Their home was searched that evening and three more times afterward. Without presenting any documentation, the authorities took 20,000 yuan in cash and many household items. On September 13, the Chengyang District Court set up a courtroom inside the Chengyang Detention Center and illegally tried Shao Chengluo and Gao Wenshu, without announcing a verdict. Their family later hired a lawyer for Gao Wenshu. The lawyer asked Judge Suo Jie for a retrial, but the request was denied. On November 10, 2017, the couple were separately sentenced by the Chengyang District Court of Qingdao, Shandong, for “using a cult organization to undermine law enforcement”: Shao Chengluo was given nine years and Gao Wenshu four years. He disagreed and appealed. He is currently held in the Chengyang Detention Center of Qingdao. Sentence ends: May 1, 2026.
11. Wang Yanhui: A Falun Gong practitioner from Qingyuan District, Baoding City, Hebei Province. On September 12, 2021, Wang Yanhui was distributing Falun Gong materials at a market in Dazhangzhuang Village, Ranzhuang Town, Qingyuan District, when he was reported and arrested by police from the Ranzhuang Police Station. In the afternoon, he was taken to the Qingyuan District Public Security Bureau, but because he failed the medical examination, he was sent home that evening. He was subsequently arrested several times but was never imprisoned because of his health. On May 4, 2023, Wang Yanhui went to the Qingyuan District Public Security Bureau to submit a complaint. The bureau referred him to the procuratorate, the procuratorate to the disciplinary commission, and the disciplinary commission to the petitions bureau. When he was taken to the Yangcheng Town Police Station of Qingyuan District, he was arrested by the Yangcheng Police Station. He was subsequently formally arrested and prosecuted. On September 22, 2023, Wang Yanhui’s family learned that he had been sentenced to three years only when they received a telephone call from him from prison. He was held in a Hebei prison. Sentence ends: May 4, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2023/10/3.html
12. Wang Ziming: A Falun Gong practitioner from Dongying City, Shandong Province. On November 24, 2018, police from the Shengli, Dongsan Road, Mingyue and Wenhui police stations in Dongying District, Dongying City, simultaneously mobilized. Falun Gong practitioners including Shang Zhaoxiang, Wang Ziming, Gao Hongwei and Zhang Aili were secretly abducted and taken to the Dongying City Detention Center for persecution. On December 24, 2019, the Dongying District Court tried and sentenced them: Wang Ziming received seven years and six months and a 30,000-yuan fine; Gao Hongwei four years and a 20,000-yuan fine; Shang Zhaoxiang three years and a 10,000-yuan fine; and Zhang Aili two years and 10 months and an 8,000-yuan fine. The four appealed to the Dongying Intermediate Court, which rejected the appeals and upheld the original judgment. Wang Ziming’s sentence ends: May 23, 2026.
13. Wen Juping: A Falun Gong practitioner from Chengdu, Sichuan. Male, 69 in 2019. On May 21, 2018, Wen Juping and Falun Gong practitioner Yuan Xuefen were discovered by surveillance cameras while posting truth-clarification stickers in their residential community and were subsequently arrested by police. It was learned that police seized 10 mobile phones from Wen Juping’s electric bicycle, extracted truth-clarification audio from automated-calling software, and traced phone cards that had made tens of thousands of truth-clarification calls, using this as the basis for judicial persecution. The Longquanyi District Court of Chengdu sentenced him to eight years in April 2019. Sentence ends: May 20, 2026.
14. Wu Yanhua: A Falun Gong practitioner from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. On November 9, 2018, Wu Yanhua and her husband Guan Xingtao were arrested and framed. She was later wrongfully sentenced to seven years and six months by the Ranghulu District Court of Daqing City and is now being persecuted in Heilongjiang Women’s Prison. Her husband Guan Xingtao was sentenced to eight years. Wu Yanhua’s sentence ends: May 8, 2026. Source:https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2021/2/26/%E4%BA%8C%E9%9B%B6%E4%BA%8C%E4%B8%80%E5%B9%B4%E4%BA%8C%E6%9C%88%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E5%85%AD%E6%97%A5%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%86%E7%BB%BC%E5%90%88%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF-421367.html
15. Xing Ailing: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Linqing City, Shandong Province, living in Panpengdian Village, Bachalu Township, Linqing City. She was arrested by local police on May 13, 2022. In December 2022, the Guan County Court of Shandong sentenced Xing Ailing to four years and fined her 10,000 yuan. Sentence ends: May 12, 2026. Source:https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2023/3/11/457627.html
16. Xu Xiuzhen: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Gaomi, Shandong, and a villager from Yimin Village, Xiazhuang Town, Gaomi City, Weifang. All five members of her family practice Falun Gong and have suffered persecution. On November 7, 2023, Xu Xiuzhen was arrested by the Gaomi 610 Office, the Gaomi State Security Brigade and the Xiazhuang Police Station. She was held in the Weifang Detention Center and subsequently criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted. It was learned in December 2023 that she had been sentenced to two years and six months. Sentence ends: May 6, 2026. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2023/12/26.html
17. You Haijun: A Falun Gong practitioner from Zhongning County, Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Born in 1970, male, formerly a construction-vehicle driver. Because he practiced Falun Gong, he was sentenced to three years and six months by the Zhongning County Court on May 30, 2014, and released after completing his sentence on November 5, 2016. He was arrested in Zhongning County on May 16, 2021, criminally detained on May 17 and formally arrested by the Zhongning County Procuratorate on May 31. On April 13, 2023, the Shapotou District Court wrongfully sentenced You Haijun to five years and fined him 10,000 yuan. Sentence ends: May 16, 2026. Source:https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2023/4/30/459371.html
18. Yu Yingzhu: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, born in 1974. She was formerly an employee of the Zhuzhou Smelter and lived in the Shenjiawan Community of Qingshuitang, Shifeng District, Zhuzhou. During the Chinese Communist Party’s 24-year persecution of Falun Gong, she was sent to labor camps three times and imprisoned for a total of seven years. On March 29, 2023, Yu Yingzhu was arrested at home by local police and held in the Fourth Changsha Detention Center. She went on hunger strike for two months to resist persecution, became extremely weak and was reduced to skin and bones. On June 1, 2023, Yu Yingzhu was released home under “residential surveillance.” On the afternoon of August 24, she was again arrested at home by police directed by the Yuhua District Court and held in the Fourth Changsha Detention Center. On September 8, the Yuhua District Court tried Yu Yingzhu in its Fifth Courtroom and sentenced her to three years. She is now held in Hunan Women’s Prison. Sentence ends: May 8, 2026. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2023/09/3_29.html
19. Zhang Xia (Dezhou): A Falun Gong practitioner from Decheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong. On March 3, 2022, Zhang Xia was arrested and her home was raided by the State Security Brigade of Dezhou’s Decheng District. She was subsequently held under house arrest in Pingyuan County, and on May 4 she was criminally detained at the Dezhou Detention Center by the Pingyuan County Public Security Bureau, after which the Pingyuan County Procuratorate formally approved her arrest. Zhang Xia was later sentenced to four years and fined 20,000 yuan. Sentence ends: May 3, 2026. Source: https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2023/5/9/459923.html
20. Zhao Xiping: (Also known as Zhao Xiping and Zhao Xiping.) A female Falun Gong practitioner from Laizhou City, Yantai, Shandong; a peasant woman living in Heiyangshan Village, Shahe Town, Laizhou. On the morning of May 11, 2023, she was distributing Falun Gong materials at the Huibu market in Pingdu City when she was reported and arrested by police from the local Huibu Police Station, after which her home was raided. Police immediately held Zhao Xiping in the Chengyang Detention Center of Pingdu City and later transferred her to the Second Qingdao Detention Center. She was subsequently criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted. On November 8, 2023, she was sentenced to three years and fined 10,000 yuan by the Huangdao District Court of Qingdao. Sentence ends: May 10, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2023/11/3_25.html
21. Zhu Zhongfu: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan, born January 12, 1955. He was 67 in 2022 and was a retired employee of the Panzhihua Planning and Architectural Design Institute in Sichuan. During the Chinese Communist Party’s more than 20-year persecution of Falun Gong, he was sent to a labor camp for one year and six months in 2005 and sentenced to three years in 2014. On May 14, 2020, Zhu Zhongfu and his wife Li Weiping were arrested and their home was raided by Chuxiong State Security police for distributing Falun Gong materials. He was held in the Chuxiong City Detention Center and sentenced to six years in 2022. Sentence ends: May 13, 2026. Source:https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2022/7/8/445959.html
22. Ding Yuande: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Rizhao City, Shandong, and a villager from Yanjiazhuang Village, Kouguan Town, Wulian County, Rizhao. His wife Ma Ruimei is also a Falun Gong practitioner. At about 5 a.m. on May 12, 2023, led by Yanjiazhuang Village Party Secretary Xia Jingde, more than 10 police officers from the Donggang District Public Security Bureau, the Taian Road Police Station of the Donggang branch, the Wulian County Public Security Bureau and the Kouguan Police Station drove into the couple’s tea field and arrested them while they were picking tea. They then raided their home. Ma Ruimei was handcuffed separately inside a vehicle. At that moment, her son, who was living in Germany, called her. After Ma Ruimei told him that she had been arrested and handcuffed, police forcibly ended the call, which lasted only half a minute. Her son was unable to contact his parents again. Ding Yuande and Ma Ruimei were taken to the Donggang branch for illegal interrogation and then illegally held at the Xiaohai Police Station in Donggang District. On May 24, 2023, Ma Ruimei was released after 12 days in detention. Previously, because she insisted on practicing Falun Gong, she had been illegally sent to a labor camp for more than one year and suffered persecution at the Shandong No. 1 Women’s Labor Camp. After her release, she remained under surveillance and her telephone was tapped. Ding Yuande remained detained at the police station. On July 20, 2023, Ding Yuande was formally arrested. The Donggang District Procuratorate subsequently prosecuted him. At the end of November 2023, the Chinese Communist authorities conducted a perfunctory trial of Ding Yuande. His family received no official information about the trial and learned of the “trial” result only on December 20. The Wulian County Court sentenced Ding Yuande to three years in prison and ordered him to pay a 15,000-yuan fine. Sentence ends: May 11, 2026. He disagreed with the first-instance judgment and appealed in accordance with the law. On January 29, 2024, the Rizhao Intermediate Court of Shandong rejected Ding Yuande’s appeal and upheld the original judgment. Source:
https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/03/3_9.html
23. Zhou Chunbao: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Guan County, Liaocheng, Shandong, born June 18, 1975, currently 49, deputy director of the Guan County State Taxation Bureau and living in the Xinghuwan residential complex in Guan County. After Zhou Chunbao was arrested by police from the Guan County Public Security Bureau on May 15, 2022, police interrogated him for three days and three nights without allowing him to sleep. On January 4, 2023, the Guan County Court of Liaocheng sentenced him to four years and fined him 10,000 yuan. He appealed, but the Liaocheng Intermediate Court rejected the appeal and upheld the original judgment. He is currently held in a Shandong prison. Sentence ends: May 14, 2026. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/03/4_91.html
24. Zhao Yukun: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Yanshou County, Heilongjiang, born around 1960 and currently in her 60s. On May 12, 2023, Zhao Yukun was arrested by police from the Chengbei Police Station of Yanshou County and held in the Harbin Detention Center. She was subsequently criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted. On June 3, 2024, it was learned that she had been sentenced to three years and was being held in Heilongjiang Women’s Prison. It was reported that persecution had forced her to wear adult diapers; the circumstances require further verification. Sentence ends: May 11, 2026. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/06/3_3.html
25. Ran Guanquan: A female Falun Gong practitioner from the Tanggu area of Binhai New Area, Tianjin. She was 75 in 2024. On December 1, 2023, she was arrested by local police and held in the Tianjin Detention Center. She was subsequently criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted. On March 26 and April 2, 2024, the Binhai New Area Court tried the elderly Ran Guanquan twice. It has now been learned that she was sentenced by the Binhai New Area Court to two and a half years and fined 8,000 yuan. Sentence ends: May 31, 2026. This was the second time Ran Guanquan had suffered judicial persecution; 10 years ago she was sentenced to three and a half years by the Binhai New Area Court. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/07/7526.html
26. Yu Chuancheng: A Falun Gong practitioner from Chengdu, Sichuan. On May 24, 2023, the Wenjiang District branch of the Chengdu Public Security Bureau arrested several Chengdu Falun Gong practitioners, including Duan Qiongying, Li Tao, Yu Chuancheng, Xu Yueqin, Li Jun and Luo Yi. They were first secretly detained at the Xinj津 brainwashing center. On June 30, 2023, the six Falun Gong practitioners were arrested and transferred to the Pixian Detention Center and Wenjiang Detention Center in Chengdu. The alleged offense was changed from “inciting subversion of state power” to “using a cult organization to undermine law enforcement.” On July 25, 2024, the Wenjiang District Court held a trial and issued sentences: Duan Qiongying, three years and six months; Li Tao, three years and six months; Yu Chuancheng, three years; Xu Yueqin, two years and eight months; Luo Yi, two years and eight months; and Li Jun, two years and two months; all were also fined. All these Falun Gong practitioners appealed. Yu Chuancheng’s sentence ends: May 23, 2026. Source:
https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/08/blog-post_41.html
27. Liu Rangfang: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Baoqing County, Heilongjiang, living in Team 7 of the No. 1 sub-factory of the 852 Farm in Baoqing County, Shuangyashan. She was formerly a primary-school teacher at the farm and was already over 70 in 2024. After the Jiang Zemin group of the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Liu Rangfang was arrested nine times for firmly practicing Falun Gong. She was held in a brainwashing center for six months and sent to a labor camp for two years, where she suffered inhuman torture at the Xigemu Labor Camp in Jiamusi, including being forced to sit on an iron chair for seven days, solitary confinement, slave labor and brutal force-feeding. She was arrested on October 8, 2011, and later sentenced to five years. At Heilongjiang Women’s Prison, she suffered beatings, sitting on a small stool, “stacked sitting,” slave labor and various other forms of torment. In December 2019, Liu Rangfang was arrested while distributing Falun Gong materials at a supermarket on the local 852 Farm and later sentenced to three years. She completed the three-year prison term only on December 3, 2022, and initially had to walk with a cane. In May 2023, Liu Rangfang was again arrested and held in the Shuangyashan Detention Center of Heilongjiang. She was tried at the Hongxinglong Court on December 8, 2023; personnel from the Jiansanjiang Court of Heilongjiang went to the Hongxinglong Court for the so-called “trial,” but no verdict was announced that day. It was later learned that she had been sentenced to three years. Sentence ends: May 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/09/3_18.html
28. Zheng Xiaohua: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Xining City, Qinghai Province, born in 1967 and aged 57 in 2024. She only began practicing Falun Gong in 2020. On the afternoon of May 9, 2023, under the unified command of the State Security Brigade of the Xining Public Security Bureau, Falun Gong practitioners in four jurisdictions were arrested. The State Security Brigade of Chengbei District arrested Zheng Xiaohua, who was immediately criminally detained and later formally arrested and prosecuted. Zheng Xiaohua was held continuously in the detention center of the Xining Public Security Bureau. After a year and a half in detention, she was sentenced to three years on September 30, 2024. Sentence ends: May 8, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/11/3.html
29. Li Xiuzhen: Also known as Li Maowa, a female Falun Gong practitioner from Jingchuan County, Pingliang City, Gansu, born in 1949 and aged 75 in 2024. She was a villager from Wangcun Village, Wangcun Town, Jingchuan County. Because she insisted on practicing Falun Gong, Li Xiuzhen was arrested and framed on November 18, 2019, by the Pingliang “anti-gang and anti-evil” office together with dozens of people from the Jingchuan County Public Security Bureau and other agencies. She was sentenced to six years and six months and is currently serving her sentence in Lanzhou Women’s Prison. Sentence ends: May 17, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/12/66.html
30. Zhu Yamei: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, born in June 1952 and currently 72. She began practicing Falun Gong in the summer of 1998. After the Chinese Communist Party began large-scale persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, she repeatedly suffered persecution. On May 2, 2024, Zhu Yamei was arrested and her home was raided. She was immediately criminally detained and later formally arrested and prosecuted. On September 29, 2024, she was sentenced to two years by the Jianhua District Court of Qiqihar City. Sentence ends: May 1, 2026. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/12/2.html
31. Hu Zhiwei: Born October 18, 1962; English name Wu Chi-wai; formerly a British Hong Kong national and currently a British and People’s Republic of China (Hong Kong) national; a resident of Fung Wah Estate, Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon, Hong Kong; former Urban Council member of Hong Kong; former councilor for the King Fu constituency of the Wong Tai Sin District Council; former Legislative Council member for the Kowloon East constituency; former convener of the pro-democracy camp; former chairman of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong; and a political prisoner detained in China. Although his ancestral home was Luoding, Guangdong, he grew up in Hong Kong and came from a grassroots background. After completing the secondary-school entrance examination in 1981, he became active in social work. In 1985, however, he decided to return to his studies and went to Macau to attend university. In 1987, he went to the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in the United States to continue studying for a master’s degree in economics and mathematics. After completing his master’s course in 1991, he abandoned his original plan and opportunity to pursue a doctorate and returned to Hong Kong, where he became the legislative assistant to Hong Kong Legislative Council member Lam Kui-shing. In 1994, he ran for the first time in the Wong Tai Sin Upper Estate district-council election but lost; the following year, however, he was elected to the Urban Council. In 1999, he ran for district councilor in the King Fu constituency of Wong Tai Sin and was successfully elected. Subsequently, in the 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 Hong Kong district-council elections, he was elected Wong Tai Sin district councilor by large majorities for four consecutive terms. In 2019, he gave up seeking re-election and handed over the seat to former Association for Democracy and People’s Livelihood member Mo Ka-yin. In 2011, he completed a diploma course in arbitration and dispute resolution at City University of Hong Kong. In the 2012 Hong Kong Legislative Council election, he represented the Democratic Party and won the Kowloon East constituency. In the 2016 election, he again represented the Democratic Party in Kowloon East and was successfully re-elected with the second-highest number of votes. In December of the same year, in a Democratic Party leadership election, he was elected the party’s new chairman with 92% of the confidence vote. On June 8, 2019, he initiated an “Anti-Extradition Bill Bicycle Ride” in Kowloon, Hong Kong. During the event, he criticized Chief Executive Carrie Lam for forcing through the amendment and called on citizens to participate in the large anti-amendment march initiated by the Civil Human Rights Front on June 9. In 2020, the Civil Human Rights Front initiated a July 1 march, but the application to hold it was rejected. He subsequently announced, together with Civil Human Rights Front deputy convenor Lester Shum and several pro-democracy district councilors, that they would jointly initiate the July 1 march in their personal capacities. Its theme was the same as that of the march initiated by the Civil Human Rights Front: opposition to the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law and insistence on the five demands. The route was from East Point Road in Causeway Bay to Chater Road in Central, but the march was quickly swept away and suppressed by Hong Kong police. On November 1 of the same year, he was arrested by Hong Kong police. After his release, he was arrested again on December 8 on suspicion of involvement in the “illegal assembly case” concerning the July 1, 2020 march, and on the first day of that month announced his resignation as a Legislative Council member. On January 6, 2021, he was arrested after being charged in connection with the pro-democracy primary-election case with “conspiracy to subvert state power.” On December 13, 2021, he was sentenced to four months and two weeks in prison by the Hong Kong District Court for “organizing or holding an unauthorized assembly.” On August 18, 2022, in the HK47 case, he and 28 other defendants pleaded guilty to “conspiracy to subvert state power.” Accordingly, when the Hong Kong 47 case was sentenced collectively at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court on November 19, 2024, although he had pleaded guilty in advance, he was still regarded as an “anti-China and destabilizing Hong Kong element” and sentenced to four years and five months in prison. His sentence is expected to end in May 2026. He is currently detained at Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/02/4547_25.html
32. Fang Ruiqin: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Laizhou City, Shandong, born in 1951 and aged 74 in 2025. On the afternoon of May 8, 2023, 30 or 40 police officers and “610” personnel in more than 10 police vehicles surrounded the study-material site of the Falun Gong study group of Lin Hongjie, Xie Qingcai and Fang Ruiqin in Laizhou City, arresting them and taking them to a police station for questioning. Fang Ruiqin was prosecuted in mid-November 2023. On May 15, 2024, the Laizhou City Court held a trial. On May 20, the court delivered a written judgment to Fang Ruiqin through a lawyer: he was sentenced to three years and fined 10,000 yuan. Fang Ruiqin was subsequently imprisoned and held in the Yantai City Detention Center. His sentence ends in May 2026. In September 2024, he was transferred to Jinan Prison.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/02/374.html
33. Huang Lijun: Her name on her identity card is “Huang Xiaojun.” Born in 1963 and aged 62 in 2025, she is from Lishui District, Nanjing. Huang Lijun (listed as “Huang Xiaojun” on her identity card), 62, has been arrested and sentenced many times since the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999. In 2002, she was sentenced to three years and suffered torture and abuse at Nanjing Women’s Prison. On October 23, 2013, Huang Lijun was arrested, and in December 2014 she was sentenced to three and a half years by the Gaochun District Court and persecuted at Nanjing Women’s Prison. On May 16, 2024, Huang Lijun was arrested by police from the Hushu Town Police Station of Jiangning District. Her home was subsequently raided, and she was criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted. Huang Lijun was later illegally sentenced to two years by the Yuhuatai District Court of Nanjing. On March 21, 2025, she was transferred to Nantong Women’s Prison. Sentence ends: May 15, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/04/2_23.html
34. Ma Fumin: A retired teacher from Mengyin County, Shandong, and male Falun Gong practitioner, born in 1948 and aged 77 in 2025. He began practicing Falun Gong in the summer of 1997. On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party began its sweeping persecution of Falun Gong, and Ma Fumin suffered persecution many times. He was sent to a labor camp for two years and to a brainwashing center. In early August 2022, the Mengyin County Public Security Bureau and the Jiuzhai Township Police Station arrested him and raided his home. One month later, in September 2022, Ma Fumin was released on bail pending trial by the Mengyin County Public Security Bureau and extorted 20,000 yuan. He continued to be framed. On June 11, 2024, Ma Fumin was tried by the Yinan County Court; on June 27, he was sentenced by the Yinan County Court to two years in prison and immediately imprisoned. On March 26, 2025, Ma Fumin was sent to a Shandong prison to serve his sentence. Sentence ends: May 26, 2026. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/04/277.html
35. Tian Pengfei: A Falun Gong practitioner from Chaoyang City, Liaoning. He operated a small computer-repair shop. On May 11, 2024, the Qianjin Police Station of the Chaoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau arrested Tian Pengfei. He was subsequently criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted by the State Security Brigade and procuratorate of the Chaoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau. After four hearings, it was learned that Tian Pengfei had been sentenced to two years. Sentence ends: May 10, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/05/2_12.html
36. Zhou Min: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Shifang City, Sichuan, already over 70 in 2025. She was a retired employee of the Nanxing Machinery Factory in Shifang City, Deyang (formerly the Southwest Chemical Machinery Factory). Because she persisted in her Falun Gong faith, she suffered long-term harassment and other persecution by the local Chinese Communist authorities. On May 14, 2025, Zhou Min was arrested by Shifang police, immediately criminally detained and subsequently formally arrested and prosecuted. On September 9, she was sentenced to one year by the Shifang Court. Sentence ends: May 14, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/09/1.html
37. Zhu Xixia: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Daye City, Hubei, living in Fandao Village, Mingshan Township, Daye City. She began practicing Falun Gong in July 1999. During the Chinese Communist Party’s frenzied persecution of Falun Gong, Zhu Xixia was illegally held in brainwashing centers, detention centers and prisons, where she suffered abuse. In June 2015, Zhu Xixia legally filed a complaint with the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and Supreme People’s Court against Jiang Zemin, the principal perpetrator of the persecution of Falun Gong. She was subsequently arrested. On March 30, 2017, Zhu Xixia was sentenced to four years and fined 5,000 yuan by the Daye City Court. She was held in Hubei Women’s Prison and suffered various forms of persecution. On May 22, 2024, Zhu Xixia was arrested by police at home and immediately held in the Daye Detention Center. On June 6, she was transferred to the Huangshi Detention Center, where she continued to be held and framed. She was subsequently formally arrested and prosecuted and was ultimately sentenced to two years. Sentence ends: May 21, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/10/2.html
38. Tian Xiufen: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Luyang Town, Beizhen City, Jinzhou, Liaoning, born in 1954 and aged 71 in 2025, living in Weitun Village, Luyang Town, Beizhen City. She began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. From June 2 to 3, 2025, public security bureaus in the counties and cities under Jinzhou, together with police stations, carried out mass arrests and home raids of local Falun Gong practitioners. At least 36 people were arrested. Eight Falun Gong practitioners in Beizhen City were arrested by police from the Luyang Town Police Station, six of whom were held and framed in the Jinzhou Detention Center. All six were women: Han Yanwen of Lüsi Village, Luyang Town; Miao Guijun, Zhao Chunyan and Tian Xiufen of Weitun Village; and Li Shuzhen and Wang Yulan of Xiaxiao Village. They were subsequently criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted. In November 2025, it was learned that Tian Xiufen had been sentenced to 11 months. Sentence ends: May 2, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/11/11_32.html
39. Zhao Chunyan: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Luyang Town, Beizhen City, Jinzhou, Liaoning, born in 1956 and aged 69 in 2025, living in Weitun Village, Luyang Town, Beizhen City. Zhao Chunyan began practicing Falun Gong in 1997. From June 2 to 3, 2025, public security bureaus in the counties and cities under Jinzhou, together with police stations, carried out mass arrests and home raids of local Falun Gong practitioners. At least 36 people were arrested. Eight Falun Gong practitioners in Beizhen City were arrested by police from the Luyang Town Police Station, six of whom were held and framed in the Jinzhou Detention Center. All six were women: Han Yanwen of Lüsi Village, Luyang Town; Zhao Chunyan, Tian Xiufen and Miao Guijun of Weitun Village; and Li Shuzhen and Wang Yulan of Xiaxiao Village. They were subsequently criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted. In November 2025, it was learned that Zhao Chunyan had been sentenced to 11 months. Sentence ends: May 2, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/11/11_48.html
40. Li Shuzhen: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Luyang Town, Beizhen City, Jinzhou, Liaoning, living in Xiaxiao Village, Luyang Town, Beizhen City. From June 2 to 3, 2025, public security bureaus in the counties and cities under Jinzhou, together with police stations, carried out mass arrests and home raids of local Falun Gong practitioners. At least 36 people were arrested. Eight Falun Gong practitioners in Beizhen City were arrested by police from the Luyang Town Police Station, six of whom were held and framed in the Jinzhou Detention Center. All six were women: Han Yanwen of Lüsi Village, Luyang Town; Zhao Chunyan, Tian Xiufen and Miao Guijun of Weitun Village; and Li Shuzhen and Wang Yulan of Xiaxiao Village. They were subsequently criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted. In November 2025, it was learned that Li Shuzhen had been sentenced to 11 months. Sentence ends: May 2, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/11/11_86.html
41. Wang Yulan: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Luyang Town, Beizhen City, Jinzhou, Liaoning, living in Xiaxiao Village, Luyang Town, Beizhen City. From June 2 to 3, 2025, public security bureaus in the counties and cities under Jinzhou, together with police stations, carried out mass arrests and home raids of local Falun Gong practitioners. At least 36 people were arrested. Eight Falun Gong practitioners in Beizhen City were arrested by police from the Luyang Town Police Station, six of whom were held and framed in the Jinzhou Detention Center. All six were women: Han Yanwen of Lüsi Village, Luyang Town; Zhao Chunyan, Tian Xiufen and Miao Guijun of Weitun Village; and Li Shuzhen and Wang Yulan of Xiaxiao Village. They were subsequently criminally detained, formally arrested and prosecuted. In November 2025, it was learned that Wang Yulan had been sentenced to 11 months. Sentence ends: May 2, 2026. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/11/11_19.html
42. Wu Dexiu: A Falun Gong practitioner from Jiaohe City, Jilin, and a farmer from Yongxiang Village, Songjiang Township, Jiaohe City. He began practicing Falun Gong in June 1996. After the Chinese Communist Party launched its persecution of Falun Gong, he was repeatedly arrested for upholding his faith and explaining the truth about Falun Gong to the public. He was held in brainwashing centers and detention centers and sent to labor camps three times, for a total of four years. During his detention at the Jilin City Labor Camp, Jilin Jiutai Labor Camp and Changchun Chaoyanggou Labor Camp, Wu Dexiu suffered torture. The methods of torture were appalling. On May 13, 2022, Wu Dexiu was arrested by police from the Minzhu Police Station in Jiaohe City, after which local public-security, procuratorial and judicial authorities blocked information about him. It was not until February 2023 that his family learned that the Chinese Communist public-security, procuratorial and judicial authorities had secretly held a trial without notifying them, and that Wu Dexiu had been sentenced to four years by the Shulan City Court and was being held in Gongzhuling Prison. Sentence ends: May 12, 2026. Source:https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2023/2/25/457130.html
43. Xu Guang: Born September 11, 1968, registered at Room 407, Building 2, Youshe Lane, Fuchun Subdistrict, Fuyang District, Hangzhou, and currently residing at Room 601, Unit 3, No. 42 Wai Dongshan Lane, Xihu District, Hangzhou. He is one of the founders of the Zhejiang Committee of the China Democracy Party and one of the most important leaders of the Zhejiang Democracy Party. From 1986 to 1990, Xu Guang studied biology at Hangzhou University. After graduation, until his first arrest and imprisonment in June 1999 in connection with the China Democracy Party organizing case, he worked at the Environmental Monitoring Station of the Fuyang Environmental Protection Bureau in his hometown. Xu Guang was one of the student-movement leaders at Hangzhou University during the spring and summer of 1989. He was dispatched by Ye Jianding, chairman of Hangzhou University's United Student Association, as a representative to the Zhejiang Colleges and Universities Autonomous Federation. He was a member of the student hunger-strike contingent at Wulin Square, composed especially of students from universities in Hangzhou, protesting the Chinese Communist Party's slander of the patriotic student movement in the April 26 editorial, “It Is Necessary to Clearly Oppose Turmoil,” opposing martial law and the dispatch of troops to suppress the movement in Beijing, and expressing support for fellow students gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. On November 27, 1995, Xu Guang participated in the statement to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, “Release Wei Jingsheng Unconditionally and Promote the Development of Democracy and the Rule of Law,” initiated by Mr. Wang Donghai and jointly signed by Fu Guoyong, Wang Youcai, Chen Longde, Wu Gaoxing, Mao Guoliang, Chen Shuqing, Hu Xianhuan and others. During the seventh anniversary of June Fourth in 1996, Xu Guang and the above-mentioned people also participated in a joint appeal drafted by Mr. Wang Donghai, “Appeal for the Immediate Release of Wei Jingsheng, Wang Dan, Liu Nianchun, Zhang Lin, Hu Shigen, Xu Yonghai and All Other Political and Religious Prisoners,” which put forward five proposals, including re-evaluating June Fourth and the 1989 democracy movement, conducting broad dialogue with all sectors of society, and carrying out gradual political-system reform in an orderly and phased manner. At gatherings of Zhejiang democracy-movement colleagues, he repeatedly proposed organizing an independent and autonomous opposition party in order to achieve effective supervision of and checks and balances on the ruling Chinese Communist Party. In June 1998, Xu Guang, together with Wang Youcai, Wang Donghai, Lin Hui, Wu Yilong, Zhu Zhengming, Zhu Yufu, Wang Rongqing, Mao Qingxiang, Qi Huimin, Wang Peijian and Shan Chengfeng, organized the Zhejiang Committee of the China Democracy Party (preparatory), and was one of its core members. In spring 1999, Xu Guang and Lou Yugen, Wang Youhua, Jiang Xuebiao, Wang Hangli and others established the “Fuyang City Preparatory Committee of the Zhejiang Province China Democracy Party” in his hometown of Fuyang and drafted the “Public Founding Declaration of the Fuyang City Preparatory Committee of the China Democracy Party,” the first county-level organization of the China Democracy Party. Xu Guang also wrote articles including “The China Democracy Party That Cannot Be Completely Arrested,” which were published in the Zhejiang Democracy Party publication Opposition Party, openly advocating democracy, constitutional government and human rights. On June 23 of the same year, Xu Guang was detained by the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau; on September 15, the Hangzhou Municipal Procuratorate approved his arrest; and on November 9, the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court of Zhejiang Province sentenced Xu Guang to five years in prison for “subversion of state power” and deprived him of political rights for two years. Xu Guang appealed. On December 10, the Zhejiang Provincial Higher People's Court upheld the original judgment in the second instance. After the judgment took effect, Xu Guang was imprisoned at Qiaosi Prison in Zhejiang Province. During his imprisonment, Xu Guang refused to accept the so-called instruction and reform programs, continued opposing the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian dictatorship and spreading democratic ideas, and every year on June Fourth went on a 24-hour hunger strike in prison, causing the prison authorities considerable difficulty. As a result, he was placed under strict management every year, repeatedly brutally beaten by prison guards, confined in an iron cage, and abused by prison bullies, usually with prison guards' covert instruction or encouragement, including being doused with feces and urine. On September 14, 2004, Xu Guang was released after completing his sentence. Every June Fourth, in addition to continuing his long-standing practice of commemorating the anniversary with a one-day hunger strike, Xu Guang often published articles or used other means to urge the authorities to redress June Fourth and actively participated in activities promoting democracy and defending human rights. Because of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian forces, many Zhejiang democracy activists have faced considerable difficulties in their lives and employment. Over the years, Xu Guang has always helped these colleagues and their families to the extent he could. In the Zhejiang Committee of the China Democracy Party's annual Spring Festival fundraising, Xu Guang was also one of the largest donors. In November 2004, Mr. Wang Rongqing presided over the drafting and submission to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of a “Draft Political Parties Law of China.” Xu Guang was one of the 11 reviewers of the draft on behalf of the Zhejiang preparatory committee of the China Democracy Party (Wu Yuanming, Wang Donghai, Wang Fuhua, Chen Shuqing, Xu Guang, Lou Yugen, Shan Chengfeng, Xiao Libin, Wang Rongyao, Yang Jianmin and Yu Guoping). In the review, he wrote: “The enactment of a Political Parties Law is an important milestone in democratic politics. Democracy and the rule of law are the shared ideals of the June Fourth college students and China Democracy Party members.” The draft Political Parties Law became a catalyst that enabled China Democracy Party organizing activities to emerge from several years of decline following the second major crackdown on the party's organizing activities by the Chinese authorities in 1999. At about 10 a.m. on April 16, 2005, Xu Guang joined an anti-Japan march at Hangzhou's Huanglong Sports Center. He advocated that “opposing Japan should not only mean opposing Japanese militarist aggression in history, but also reflecting on why we are backward and why we have been bullied.” Because he shouted, “Down with traitors!” and “Down with the traitors who have sold our territory!”, police rushed forward, forcibly dragged him into a police vehicle and took him away. He was administratively detained for 15 days on the grounds that he had “left the county or city where he lived without authorization to participate in a march or assembly without approval during a period when his political rights had been deprived.” In February 2006, Xu Guang participated in a relay hunger strike to defend rights and resist violence, initiated in Beijing by Gao Zhisheng, Zhao Xin and Hu Jia and organized and coordinated in Zhejiang by Chen Shuqing. Chen Shuqing and Wang Donghai, Wang Rongqing and Xu Guang, and Shan Chengfeng and Lü Gengsong fasted in pairs for 24 hours, taking the seventh, eighth and ninth shifts. Together with the many China Democracy Party members in Zhejiang who joined later, the Zhejiang Democracy Party activists played a key role in carrying the activity forward and accelerating it at a critical moment, both in duration and in the number of participants. In May 2006, after learning that Zhu Zhengming of the Zhejiang Committee of the China Democracy Party had been released, Xu Guang drove thousands of kilometers back and forth with Wang Rongqing, Lou Yugen, Chen Shuqing and others from Hangzhou to visit Zhu Zhengming at his hometown in Jiangshan. They introduced the activities of Zhejiang Democracy Party members in recent years and laid groundwork for Zhu to return to Hangzhou and reintegrate into Zhejiang Democracy Party activities and citizens' rights-defense activities at the time. At about 10:30 a.m. on September 21, 2013, at a pavilion beside Broken Bridge at West Lake in Hangzhou, Xu Guang joined Lou Liming, Qian Xiaoling and other affordable-housing rights defenders. Xu Guang defended his rights by putting up slogans reading “Equal Housing, Equal Politics; Laws Are Not Retroactive” on his body and shouting “Down with fascism,” attracting onlookers. Police considered their conduct to have affected sightseeing order at West Lake and, under Article 23, Paragraph 1, Item 2 of the Public Security Administration Punishments Law of the People's Republic of China, decided to administratively detain Xu Guang for 10 days. Xu Guang believed that his identity as a China Democracy Party member had resulted not only in the harshest punishment but also in strict management and abuse at the detention center, and he went on hunger strike for a week. On the day of his release, October 1, the commander and deputy commander of the State Security Detachment of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau personally led a team to the detention center to prevent democracy activists from welcoming Xu Guang. They also took measures in advance against the democracy activists expected to attend: shortly after 6 a.m., Chen Shuqing was stopped by three plainclothes officers outside the entrance to his residential unit; on his way to pick up Xu Guang, Lü Gengsong was caught by two auxiliary police officers, forcibly dragged back and taken home; and police took democracy activists Tan Kai, Lou Baosheng and Wang Fuhua to a police station and detained them for eight or nine hours. Xu Guang challenged the administrative detention, first applying for administrative reconsideration to the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau. On December 20, 2013, Xu Guang filed an administrative lawsuit with the Xihu District Court of Hangzhou. In court, Xu Guang's representative sternly pointed out that Xu Guang had shouted “Down with fascism” because plainclothes personnel of unknown identity had used violence without restraint against citizens relaxing and sightseeing at Broken Bridge, while the defendant had failed to investigate the plainclothes personnel and instead punished the plaintiff for acting righteously to stop the violence. This was a complete confusion of right and wrong, an inversion of black and white, and an act of framing the plaintiff. The plaintiff and his representative asked the Xihu District Court to revoke the defendant's punishment decision, uphold the law and safeguard the justice of the rule of law. At the end of February 2014, Mr. Chen Kaipin went to Taiwan to represent the Zhejiang Committee of the China Democracy Party in talks with Ma Ying-jeou, president of the Republic of China under the then-ruling Kuomintang, and met with Democratic Progressive Party leaders Su Tseng-chang and Tsai Ing-wen, among others, to discuss how cross-strait party exchanges could “support democracy on the mainland and defend Taiwan's freedom” and “preserve peace and promote (democratic) unification.” After Chen Kaipin received a threat from Xiaoshan police that he would “receive a heavy sentence if he returned,” beginning when Chen Kaipin flew into Xiaoshan International Airport at 2:10 p.m. on March 6, Xu Guang, Chen Ziliang, Tan Kai, Wu Yuanming (Ren Weiren), Lai Jinbiao, Chen Zhaorong, Zou Wei and Jiang Zaihong repeatedly traveled to and from the airport and visited Chen Kaipin's elderly parents at his home, who were both over 80 at the time. They also promptly informed the outside world of the suspected “secret disappearance (house arrest and surveillance)” by the authorities. In particular, the participation of Chen Liqun and Sheng Xue in rescue efforts and appeals attracted broad attention in China and abroad and played an indispensable role in enabling Mr. Chen Kaipin to return safely home on March 17 and avoid political persecution. On April 2, 2014, because Xu Guang posted and chatted in QQ and WeChat groups, joking that “the Communist Party can rent a boat on Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing to hold its First National Congress, and the Democratic Party can also rent a boat on West Lake in Hangzhou to hold its First National Congress,” the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau of Zhejiang Province detained Xu Guang on April 3, using this as “evidence.” He was arrested on May 9 and detained at the Xihu District Detention Center in Hangzhou on suspicion of subversion of state power. During his detention, Xu Guang maintained a prolonged hunger strike in protest. At the time, Mr. Guo Lianhui, founder of Jiangxi Mingli Law Firm and a renowned rights lawyer, was retained by Xu Guang's elder sister to serve as his defense lawyer. Although the police repeatedly refused the lawyer's requests to meet with the client, they accepted the lawyer's legal opinion, which clearly stated that Xu Guang's speech had no necessary legal connection with subversion of state power and requested that the public security authorities withdraw the case. According to a China Human Rights Defenders report on May 10, 2014, more than 1,200 people from various sectors jointly signed a petition stating that the authorities' arrest of Xu Guang on trumped-up charges not only seriously violated Xu Guang's personal freedom but also seriously damaged China's legal system and rule of law. They strongly demanded that the Hangzhou Procuratorate release Xu Guang. On July 31, 2014, Xu Guang was released on bail pending trial. Following the death of Mr. Wang Rongqing, a principal leader of the Zhejiang Committee of the China Democracy Party, in 2014, and the successive arrests and sentencing of Lü Gengsong and Chen Shuqing, the China Democracy Party entered another sustained and prolonged round of political persecution since it began openly organizing as a party. Together with Zou Wei, Chen Ziliang, Qi Huimin, Mao Qingxiang, Yan Zhongliang and Zhu Yufu, who had just been released after repeated persecution, Xu Guang withstood pressure over a long period in an extremely hostile environment, keeping the Zhejiang Committee of the China Democracy Party organized, its banner flying and its activities continuing, and making arduous and outstanding contributions. On April 25, 2018, for organizing and participating in the International Workers' Day “National Resonance” action, jointly initiated by democracy-movement figures in China and abroad, which called on people across China to gather in local city squares on May 1, exercise the civil rights affirmed by the Constitution, express their demands and advance China's democratic progress, Xu Guang was administratively detained for seven days. He was not released until May 2, after the date of the activity had passed. On August 5, 2019, the public security authorities inspected defendant Xu Guang's Samsung phone and discovered 19 videos and images, audio and other content deemed sensitive by the authorities. They again ordered that Xu Guang be detained for six days on the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” On May 24, 2022, as June Fourth approached, Xu Guang received a summons from the Yuquan Police Station of the Xihu District Public Security Sub-Bureau in the area where he lived. Xu Guang ignored it. On the morning of May 25, while shopping in the Dongshan Lane residential compound where he lived and passing near Yuquan Police Station, he encountered officers from the station and was taken inside. They warned Xu Guang that June Fourth was approaching and that he should not make any sensitive statements or take any sensitive actions related to June Fourth, and forcibly took away his two phones. On May 26, Xu Guang went to Yuquan Police Station, holding up papers reading “Redress June Fourth” along the way to protest police persecution. He was criminally detained by Xihu District police and his home was raided. State security police threatened Xu Guang, saying, “We will settle the old and new accounts together; this time he will receive a heavy sentence.” At 5 p.m. on June 24, Xihu District state security police searched Xu Guang's home for a second time. On July 2, 2022, the Xihu District Procuratorate of Hangzhou formally arrested Xu Guang on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Xu Guang began a hunger strike in protest as soon as he was criminally detained at the Xihu District Detention Center in Hangzhou, relying only on nasogastric feeding each day to maintain his life. Xu Guang's family retained the renowned lawyers Ji Zhongjiu of Zhejiang Zuoqi Law Firm and Wu Youshui of Zhejiang Bijian Law Firm as defense counsel. However, during the investigation stage before the case was transferred for examination and prosecution, the authorities refused to allow the lawyers to meet the detained client. On November 7, 2022, the Xihu District People's Procuratorate of Hangzhou issued Indictment No. (2022) 560, charging defendant Xu Guang with picking quarrels and provoking trouble and initiating a public prosecution. It accused Xu Guang of posting videos and articles on WeChat, Facebook, Telegram and YouTube from 2018 to 2022, spreading false information damaging the country's image and endangering national interests, and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble online.” Xu Guang believed that the authorities had framed him. He said that, as a participant in Hangzhou's June Fourth student movement, he openly commemorated June Fourth every year and held signs reading “Do Not Forget June Fourth.” He loved his country and firmly believed that realizing democracy and the rule of law and defending human rights could better safeguard the country's image and national interests. What he said on different occasions could not be labeled false information simply because the authorities did not dare to clarify it publicly. The Chinese Communist authorities arrested him before June Fourth to suppress China Democracy Party members for the needs of maintaining stability around June Fourth. After meeting with the retained lawyer, Xu Guang firmly demanded that the lawyer defend him as not guilty. On April 3, 2024, the Xihu District Court of Hangzhou held a hearing and announced its judgment. Criminal Judgment No. (2022) Zhe 0106 Xing Chu 561 of the Xihu District People's Court of Hangzhou sentenced Xu Guang to four years in prison for picking quarrels and provoking trouble, with the sentence ending on May 19, 2026.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_470.html
44. Li Guiwen: Born in the 1990s, from Jiangyi Township, Yuanmou County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province; Lisu ethnic group; occupation unknown; Christian; preacher at the Pingtian Township Christian house church in Yuanmou County; Chinese conscience prisoner. In his early years, he grew up in Jiangyi Township, Yuanmou County. However, because Yunnan Province suffered a serious geological disaster in 2002, the county and township where he lived were also affected by landslides. Floodwaters carrying mud and stones submerged villages and destroyed farmland and roads, resulting in the entire village being collectively relocated to Pingtian Township. Yunnan Province has long been home to many ethnic minorities. More than a century ago, British missionary James O. Fraser came to Yunnan to preach, gradually leading the ordinary people in these areas to embrace Christianity. During this period, Fraser felt a special calling to the Lisu mountain areas and helped the Lisu people establish their own churches, so that the vast majority of people in the region became Christians. He also helped them learn to read and study the Bible, specifically inventing a writing system for the Lisu language, which the Chinese government officially recognized and accepted in 1992. Christianity and missionary preaching once brought many positive changes to local ways of life and social customs. Many people abandoned bad habits such as alcoholism after accepting the Gospel, and people who had previously engaged in unlawful conduct turned to working with their own hands and living lives with personal dignity. Consequently, to this day, approximately 80 percent of the Lisu people remain Christians. Because the village where he lived was composed mainly of Lisu people, residents had long maintained the custom of gathering together as Christians. As a preacher, although his original village collectively relocated to the new area of Pingtian Township in 2002, the villagers maintained the tradition of gathering, and he continued to play an important role in organizing gatherings, shepherding the congregation and providing spiritual companionship. Moreover, the locations where members of his church gathered were usually family premises or private residences and had never caused any “interference with or disruption of social order.” In recent years, however, the area where he lived, like other parts of the country, began facing an escalating crackdown on Christian house churches. Several pastors had already been arrested and sentenced among ethnic minorities in villages and townships across Yunnan. On August 2, 2025, he was suddenly criminally detained by police in Yuanmou County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, on suspicion of “organizing an illegal gathering.” On September 8, Yuanmou County police formally arrested him. On October 17, 2025, it became known that Yuanmou County police had transferred his case to the local procuratorate for examination and prosecution on the same charge. Regarding his arrest, his family appealed and asked Christians in various churches to pray for a fair trial in his case. On December 18, 2025, the Yuanmou County Court of Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, sentenced Li Guiwen at first instance to six months in prison for “organizing an illegal gathering,” with the sentence ending on February 1, 2026. He had previously been detained at the Yuanmou County Detention Center in Yunnan Province.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/6.html
III. Updates on 37 people in prison learned during this period (with biographies)
1. Two people in the previous-period list were sentenced during this period:
Three years and three months: Guo Hongying
One year: Wu Qiang
1/Guo Hongying: Female, born August 30, 1966, from Siping City, Jilin Province; resident of Haiyin Garden residential compound, Tiedong District, Siping City; laid-off worker; rights defender. In March 2006, because her brother Guo Hongwei reported that the head of the complaints department of the Longtan District Procuratorate in Jilin Province and his relatives had fraudulently issued public-fund receipts, he was retaliated against, arrested and wrongly sentenced to five years in prison. Her brother refused to accept the judgment and, after his release, repeatedly went to Beijing with their mother to petition and file complaints, again suffering suppression by local authorities. In March 2015, both mother and son were criminally detained and arrested. On February 1, 2016, her brother Guo Hongwei and their mother Xiao Yunling were wrongly and harshly sentenced by the Tiedong District Court of Siping City, Jilin Province, to 13 years and six years, respectively. During their imprisonment, both mother and son repeatedly became critically ill, but their requests for medical parole were refused. To seek justice for her relatives, she courageously defended their rights and, because she had lodged complaints in Beijing for a long period and actively participated in various rights-defense activities, again suffered severe suppression by the local authorities. On January 24, 2018, she was intercepted and abducted by stability-maintenance personnel for delivering grievance materials to delegates to Jilin Province's “Two Sessions” in Changchun. On March 6 of the same year, because she went to visit her brother in prison, Siping police administratively detained her for 15 days on the grounds of “petitioning beyond the prescribed level and assaulting another person.” On March 24 of the same year, police criminally detained her on suspicion of “obstructing official duties.” One month later, the Siping Procuratorate indicted her and added the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” On April 18, 2019, her case was heard by the Tiedong District Court of Siping City, Jilin Province. Two days later, she was sentenced to one year and six months for “obstructing official duties” and four years for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” with the sentences combined into a final prison term of five years. She appealed. On August 21, 2019, the Siping Intermediate People's Court of Jilin Province upheld the original judgment on appeal, with the sentence ending on February 1, 2023. She previously served her sentence at Jilin Province Changchun Women's Prison. On October 13, 2024, Guo Hongying went to Beijing to arrange a second autopsy for her brother, but was forcibly taken back by the Tiedong branch of the Siping Municipal Public Security Bureau. On October 14, she was criminally detained by the Tiedong branch on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and held at the Siping Detention Center. The case was heard in December 2025. On May 22, 2026, Guo Hongying was sentenced to three years and three months by the Tiedong District Court of Siping City for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Sentence ends: January 12, 2028.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/33_0272989669.html
2/Wu Qiang: An original-video blogger on Weibo and Douyin, straightforward and possessing a sense of justice, Wu Qiang mainly focuses on social livelihoods. He was reported by the media after exposing 32 tons of fake beverages, attracting broad public attention. Afterward, Wu Qiang began speaking out for disadvantaged groups. On July 5, 2024, Wu Qiang forwarded a video exposing possible fraud in a sewage-treatment project in Punan Township, Haizhou District, quickly attracting media attention. Wu Qiang and the person who filmed the video were then summoned by the Haizhou branch on the grounds of “fabricating facts and disrupting public order,” and were illegally detained for 16 hours at Taiping Coastal Defense Police Station, where they were forced to sign involuntary guarantees. On April 11, 2025, Wu Qiang was criminally detained by the Haizhou District branch of the Lianyungang Municipal Public Security Bureau on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. He was subsequently arrested and indicted and held at the Lianyungang Detention Center. He was tortured at the detention center. On March 20, 2026, Wu Qiang was sentenced to one year in prison. He appealed the judgment. On April 10, 2026, Wu Qiang was placed under residential surveillance at a designated location for six months. Expiration date: October 9, 2026.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/1202665.html
2. The “October 9” church case group (18 people), Xie Yang, Zhao Haitong, Rahile Dawut, Zou Wei, Dai Zhichao, Feng Guichun, Wang Yifei, Xu Lin, Joshua Wong, Ko Yiu-lam, Ma Ling, Ju Dianhong, Gao Shen, Zhou Songlin, Ding Zhongfu, Dong Yuyu and Chang Yuchun—updates on 35 people in prison:
1/Update on the Beijing Zion Church “October 9” church case (May 29, 2026)
The 18 pastors and co-workers still detained in the Beijing Zion Church “October 9” church case have been held in the First and Second Detention Centers of Beihai City, Guangxi, on suspicion of “illegally using an information network,” and have now entered their 233rd day in detention. 1. On May 26, lawyers learned that Pastor Jin Mingri had been transferred to the procuratorate; his family had not yet received any formal written notice. 2. The other 17 pastors and co-workers have not yet received information about any transfer to the procuratorate. 3. The weather in Beihai is currently hot. In a high-temperature, high-humidity environment, more than 30 detainees are crowded into a 40-square-meter room, resulting in severe prickly heat and eczema. 4. Pastors and co-workers with serious illnesses still have not received effective medication or treatment. Even requests for nutritional meals have been rejected, causing their health to deteriorate. 5. The 18 pastors and co-workers are severely undernourished, emaciated and in worrying health. 6. So far, only five sisters have received Bibles, and the detained pastors' and co-workers' right to correspond is restricted.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/1092026529.html
2/Xie Yang: Renowned human-rights lawyer Xie Yang, sentenced to five years, transferred to Chishan Prison to serve his sentence
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 29, 2026, this website learned that renowned human-rights lawyer Xie Yang was convicted for his speech and sentenced to five years by the Changsha Intermediate People's Court on March 23, 2026, for “inciting subversion of state power.” Xie Yang subsequently decided to waive his right to appeal. On May 20, Xie Yang was transferred to Chishan Prison to serve his sentence.
Biography of lawyer Xie Yang: Born February 4, 1972, from Changsha City, Hunan Province; former lawyer at Tiandiren Law Firm and Changsha Jingyingke Law Firm; former lawyer at Hunan Gangwei Law Firm; human-rights lawyer; Chinese political prisoner. Since formally beginning legal practice in 2011, he has represented multiple rights-defense cases involving abuse of public power, including the Xue Mingkai case in Qufu County, Shandong Province; the Zhang Baocheng case in Beijing's New Citizens Movement; the Nanle church case in Nanle County, Henan Province; and the land-expropriation case of Zhang Kaihua in Liuyang City, Hunan Province. He also actively followed and participated in social rights-defense movements, including visiting blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng and supporting lawyers arrested in Jiansanjiang, and was repeatedly obstructed, pressured and suppressed by judicial authorities. On November 15, 2011, he went alone to Dongshigu Village, Shandong Province, to visit blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng and was beaten and robbed by local criminal forces. In August 2013, while representing a private-lending dispute and requesting the result of the collegial panel's deliberations to protect his client's interests, he was fined 50,000 yuan by the Hunan Lawyers Association and his law firm demanded that he terminate his contract and leave. On February 13, 2014, because he served as entrusted counsel in the “Shandong Xue Family Murder Case,” he was taken away by Hunan Justice Department authorities for a “talk over tea.” On February 20, 2014, while representing land-rights defender Zhang Kaihua in Liuyang, Hunan, he was subjected to brutal obstruction by the local court when appearing in court. From October 2013 to May 2014, because he repeatedly represented rights-defense cases, he suffered disguised suppression by the Hunan Lawyers Association, which refused to approve his transfer between firms. In March 2015, because he actively represented several forced land-expropriation and demolition cases in Yuhua District, Changsha, he was illegally expelled by the local court while representing farmers in Lianhu Village in an administrative land-expropriation lawsuit. On May 17, 2015, while representing a rights-defense case involving a client at the Beibu Gulf Building Materials Market in Nanning, Guangxi, he was beaten by several unidentified men wielding weapons, suffering serious injuries and a fractured right leg. Although he reported the incident to police, local police delayed dispatching officers. On July 11, 2015, he was taken away by police in Changsha, Hunan, during the Chinese Communist Party's “709 mass arrests.” He was subsequently placed under residential surveillance at a designated location on suspicion of “disturbing court order” and “inciting subversion of state power,” and defense lawyers' requests to meet him were rejected. On January 9, 2016, Changsha police formally arrested him on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power. On May 8, 2017, his case was heard by the Hunan Changsha Intermediate Court. However, because he was forced to plead guilty in court and denied having been tortured, he was provisionally released on bail that day. On December 26 of the same year, the Changsha Intermediate Court formally announced its judgment: he was guilty of inciting subversion of state power but exempted from criminal punishment. Although he was not sentenced to prison, he was subjected to long-term house arrest and close surveillance. On January 11, 2022, Xie Yang was taken away by Changsha police and lost contact with the outside world after going to Yongshun County, Hunan Province, to support pregnant teacher Li Tiantian, who had been forcibly confined in a psychiatric hospital for posting online comments. He was subsequently known to have been criminally detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power and picking quarrels and provoking trouble. His residence was searched, many personal belongings were damaged, and two computers and a safe were taken away. On February 17, 2022, the Changsha Procuratorate formally approved his arrest on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power. He was tortured in detention. Xie Yang was then detained at the First Changsha Detention Center, No. 1736 Yuanda 2nd Road, Q塘 Subdistrict, Changsha County, Changsha City, Hunan Province, postal code 410131. On March 23, 2026, Xie Yang was sentenced to five years by the Changsha Intermediate People's Court for inciting subversion of state power and had 100,000 yuan in property confiscated. The reason for the judgment was certain WeChat statements by Xie Yang. Sentence ends on January 10, 2027. On May 20, 2026, Xie Yang was transferred to Chishan Prison to serve his sentence.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/5.html
3/Zhao Haitong: Xinjiang democracy and rights defender Zhao Haitong, sentenced to 14 years, spent his 64th birthday in prison
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 23, 2026, this website learned that Zhao Haitong, a Xinjiang human-rights defender sentenced to 14 years and currently serving his sentence at Wusu Prison in Xinjiang, spent his 63rd birthday in prison on May 22. This was the 13th birthday he had spent in prison. Zhao Haitong had long appealed on behalf of disadvantaged groups and conscience prisoners, and later went south to Guangdong to participate in street sign-holding protests and other resistance activities. He was criminally detained on August 10, 2013, and sentenced to 14 years on November 7, 2014, for inciting subversion of state power. He is currently serving his sentence at Wusu Prison in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Sentence ends on August 8, 2027.
Profile of Zhao Haitong: Born May 22, 1962, from Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province; Xinjiang democracy and rights defender; Chinese political prisoner. Because he had long worked to appeal for rights on behalf of disadvantaged groups in Xinjiang, Uyghur groups, political prisoners and conscience prisoners, and in recent years had gone south to Guangdong to actively participate with rights defenders and human-rights defenders in southern regions in street democracy movements, holding signs and organizing rallies in support, he was welcomed by the public wherever he went. On February 21, 2013, he went to Wuhan, Hubei, to meet human-rights activist Qin Yongmin and was brutally beaten by Wuhan police, nearly dying. In April 2013, because he sought to express the legitimate demands of rights defenders, he repeatedly held signs at Guangzhou Railway Station, promoted democratic ideas and “protested the gangster government suppressing democracy activists.” In June 2013, he was forcibly detained by police for participating in support of the school-disruption case involving Zhang Anni, daughter of Anhui democracy activist Zhang Lin. On August 9, 2013, he was criminally detained by Xinjiang police for helping Uyghur citizens defend their rights in Turpan City, Xinjiang, and was held at the Liudaowan Detention Center in Ürümqi. On September 12, 2013, Xinjiang police announced his formal arrest on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power. On November 7, 2014, the Ürümqi Court of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region secretly and heavily sentenced him to 14 years in prison for the same offense, with the sentence ending on August 8, 2027. He is currently serving his sentence at Wusu Prison in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Wusu Prison, Wusu City, Tacheng Prefecture, Xinjiang; postal code 833006).
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/1464.html
4/Rahile Dawut: Renowned professor in the Chinese Department of Xinjiang University, Uyghur folklore and ethnography expert, and anthropologist Rahile Dawut, sentenced to life imprisonment by the Chinese Communist authorities, spent her 60th birthday in prison
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 20, 2026, this website learned that Rahile Dawut, a professor in the Chinese Department of Xinjiang University, Uyghur folklore and ethnography expert, and anthropologist sentenced to life imprisonment by the Chinese Communist authorities, spent her 60th birthday in prison today. As an ethnographic scholar, she had always worked to protect Uyghur culture and identity. However, she was forcibly disappeared in December 2017 and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment by the Chinese Communist authorities.
Profile of Rahile Dawut (Uyghur): Female, born May 20, 1966, from Ürümqi City, Xinjiang; Uyghur; Uyghur name Rahile Dawut ( راھىلە داۋۇت ); resident of the Xinjiang University residential compound on Shengli Road, Tianshan District, Ürümqi; Chinese Communist Party member; professor in the Chinese Department of Xinjiang University; director and professor of the Xinjiang University Research Center for Ethnic Minority Folklore and supervisor of master's students specializing in ethnic minority languages and literature; internationally renowned Uyghur folklore and ethnography expert and anthropologist; Chinese political prisoner. From 1983 to 1987, she studied Uyghur language and literature in the Chinese Department of Xinjiang University and received a bachelor's degree. She then received a master's degree in ethnic minority folk literature, including folklore, from the Chinese Department of Xinjiang University in July 1990 and a doctorate in folklore from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University in July 1998. She had taught in the Chinese Department of Xinjiang University since July 1990. During that time, because she founded and led the Xinjiang University Research Center for Ethnic Minority Folklore and wrote dozens of articles in international journals and many books, including research on Islamic holy sites in Central Asia, and presented her work at conferences around the world, she was repeatedly recognized by academic circles in China and internationally. She served several times as a visiting scholar and visiting professor in the Department of Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University and the University of California in the United States. She trained 18 graduate students at Xinjiang University, 12 of whom had graduated. On December 12, 2017, after receiving a call from a leader at her workplace asking her to pack her luggage and go to Beijing as soon as possible to attend an emergency meeting, she hurriedly left home and headed to the airport. She lost contact while traveling to Beijing and has not been heard from since. After her daughter, who was abroad at the time, and other family members made inquiries everywhere and issued international appeals, it was eventually learned that she had been criminally detained around the same time as several other Uyghur intellectuals and cultural elites by the Xinjiang authorities. She was later formally arrested by Ürümqi police on suspicion of “separatism,” accused of using her research projects to create social “provocation” between farmers and the government. In December 2020, the Chinese Communist authorities in Xinjiang secretly sentenced her to life imprisonment for “ethnic separatism” and other offenses and deprived her of political rights for life. It is reported that her health has developed serious problems because of torture or psychological pressure in prison. She is currently serving her sentence at a prison in Ürümqi, Xinjiang.Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/60.html
5/Zou Wei: Second-instance ruling in Zhejiang democracy activist Zou Wei's case upholds original judgment
On May 18, 2026, this website learned that the second-instance ruling in Zou Wei's case upheld the original judgment. In 2024, Zhejiang democracy activist Zou Wei and independent writer Zan Aizong held a sea memorial for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo at the mouth of the Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang. The authorities subsequently indicted both men on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” On February 13, the Hangzhou court held a hearing and sentenced Zou Wei to three years and six months in prison and Zan Aizong to three years. Zou Wei appealed the judgment in accordance with the law. On May 18, 2026, his appeal was rejected and the first-instance judgment was upheld.
Biography of Zou Wei: Born in 1968, from Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province; important member of the Zhejiang Committee of the China Democracy Party, commonly known as a Zhejiang democracy activist; human-rights activist; Chinese political prisoner. Because of his persistent pursuit of democracy and freedom, he became an active participant in the democracy movement in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, at an early stage. When democracy activists in Zhejiang overcame the Chinese Communist government's suppression and obstruction to establish the Zhejiang Committee of the China Democracy Party, he identified himself as a Zhejiang democracy activist and was repeatedly summoned and subjected to home searches by the authorities. On January 12, 2012, after the Wukan incident occurred in Lufeng City, Guangdong Province—namely, a collective protest in Wukan Village that evolved from economic demands into political demands during grassroots elections, shocking the world and leading the Chinese Communist Party to view the domestic political situation as severe—more than a dozen Hangzhou police officers suddenly broke into his home and conducted a major search, taking his personal computer, address book, USB drives and anything else considered “valuable,” and taking him away for questioning. On November 20, 2023, he held a sign and spoke out after dissident Sun Lin in Nanjing, Jiangsu, was allegedly beaten to death by police at home. He was also an active signatory of the online open letter “An Open Letter to the Nanjing Municipal Government on the Unclear Truth of Sun Lin's Death,” and was immediately taken away and criminally detained by police in Gongshu District, Hangzhou. His home and his mother's residence were searched. On March 17, 2024, he held a sign and spoke out on the fourth anniversary of the death of COVID-19 whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang. After being forced by police to travel during the Chinese Communist Party's “Two Sessions,” he went to Huzhou on business and posted online information about being forced to travel and subjected to stability maintenance, and was again taken away, summoned and reprimanded by local police. On July 13, 2024, the seventh anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, he and independent writer Zan Aizong, Zhuang Daohe, democracy activist Mao Qingxiang and four others went to the mouth of the Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang, to hold a sea memorial for Liu Xiaobo and posted some photographs of the event online. Six people were taken away by Hangzhou police early the following morning. Five were reprimanded, had statements recorded and were gradually released, while Zou Wei and Zan Aizong were held and forced to travel because the Chinese Communist Party's 20th Central Committee Third Plenum was about to be held in Beijing. After returning home, on July 20, he and Zan Aizong were again criminally detained by police in Gongshu District, Hangzhou, on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. On August 29 of the same year, the two were formally arrested by the Gongshu District Procuratorate of Hangzhou on the same charge. They were subsequently indicted. The case of Zou Wei and Zan Aizong was heard at 2:30 p.m. on February 13, 2026, in a court in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Zou Wei was sentenced to three years and six months and Zan Aizong to three years. Sentence ends: January 19, 2028. He is currently detained at the Gongshu District Detention Center in Hangzhou, also known as Banshan Detention Center, No. 342-68 Banshan Road, Gongshu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, postal code 310011.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_918.html
6/Dai Zhichao: Four months after Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church preacher Dai Zhichao was detained, lawyers still cannot meet him
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 17, 2026, this website learned that four months after Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church preacher Dai Zhichao was detained, lawyers still could not meet him. Dai Zhichao's wife, Lu Lingzhi, reported today that Dai Zhichao had been detained for four months and lawyers still could not meet him. Lu Lingzhi is 29 weeks pregnant and has formally entered the third trimester. She is carrying their third child and must care for two children alone.
Biography of Dai Zhichao: Born in 1990, from Chengdu City, Sichuan Province; Christian; preacher at Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church; victim in the “Early Rain Covenant Church case”; Chinese conscience prisoner. He believed in Jesus Christ from adolescence. After graduating from university, he first sought employment in Chongqing, but in 2013 soon entered a training program at Liren University, headquartered in Beijing, a private university in mainland China, and studied “Christianity and Political Philosophy” for one week in Chengdu, Sichuan, becoming a student of Pastor Wang Yi. After the training, he returned to Chongqing to continue working, but was soon moved by a calling, resigned decisively and served full-time at Mount Olive Reformed Church in Bazhong City. In August 2017, to better equip himself, he began studying diligently at Huaxi Covenant Seminary in Chengdu with the support and encouragement of Mount Olive Church. However, Mount Olive Reformed Church suffered a severe blow during the Chinese Communist authorities' crackdown in March 2021 and was banned by the Sichuan Provincial Civil Affairs Department. After graduating from seminary, he therefore began serving full-time as a preacher at Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church. The December 9, 2018, Early Rain Covenant Church case occurred, in which more than 100 church members were arrested and summoned by Chengdu police. He was also criminally detained for courageously writing a prayer letter for the church and was not released on bail pending trial for more than three months, after which police forcibly sent him to his wife's hometown in Liangping District, Chongqing. In July 2020, he returned to Chengdu with his wife and child. Facing severe persecution of the church by the authorities, he courageously stood up to participate in church service and used his passionate writing, preaching and experiences of suffering to inspire many people to learn about and accept the Gospel that “Christ is Lord and grace is king.” However, for this reason, from September 2022 he was closely monitored by the Chengdu authorities and placed under long-term house arrest. He was intercepted whenever he tried to leave the residential compound and was even slapped. On February 12, 2023, when he tried to leave to attend a worship service, many residential-compound staff guarded and stopped him downstairs, so he had to attend online worship at home. When police knocked forcefully on his door and wanted to speak with him, he clearly told them to “use the power in your hands carefully and stop persecuting the church,” and invited the officers to watch the online livestream of the Sunday worship service with him. On December 9 of the same year, the fifth anniversary of the December 9 Early Rain Covenant Church case, local authorities again used telephone warnings, threats at his home, tracking and surveillance, summonses, power cuts and other forms of harassment and disruption to prevent Early Rain Covenant Church pastors, co-workers and believers from participating in online activities. He was again criminally detained on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and was not released on bail until a month later. As the Chinese Communist authorities escalated their nationwide persecution of house churches, on January 6, 2026, Early Rain Covenant Church again suffered large-scale, cross-regional persecution in Chengdu and Deyang. He and church elder Li Yingqiang, along with nine pastors, co-workers and believers, were arrested, lost contact or had their freedom restricted. He had previously been notified not to leave the area under his residence. On January 6, he was taken away from the church office and his home was searched. He has been out of contact ever since. At present, the specific charges against him and most of the other pastors and co-workers remain unclear, and their families have not received legal documents, but it is known that lawyers have become involved. He is currently detained at the Deyang Detention Center in Sichuan Province.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_17.html
7/Feng Guichun: Shandong Province, Linyi City Falun Gong practitioner Feng Guichun, sentenced to four years, deprived of communication and shopping rights at Shandong Women's Prison
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 17, 2026, this website learned that Feng Guichun was framed and persecuted by the public security, procuratorate and courts and wrongly sentenced to four years. She was transferred to the 11th prison ward of Shandong Women's Prison in October 2024 and subjected to forced “transformation” persecution in a “small room.” In August 2025, because Feng Guichun submitted a “petition” to the Supreme People's Court, Shandong Women's Prison retaliated against her and again subjected her to persecution and abuse in a “small cell.” Her family filed complaints and appeals over the matter. Since October 2025, because she refused to sign so-called “transformation” documents, Shandong Women's Prison has deprived her of basic rights including communication and shopping. During a visit on April 22, 2026, her family saw that prolonged malnutrition had made her face dark and her body extremely thin. She said that three of her teeth had become loose and that she had difficulty chewing. Her family was extremely dissatisfied and concerned.
Biography of Feng Guichun: Female Falun Gong practitioner from Linyi City, Shandong Province; in her thirties in 2025; single; employee of the Linyi Central Blood Station, working at the Linyi Municipal Government Affairs Center. On August 24, 2023, Feng Guichun was arrested by political-security officers (state security) of the Lanshan District Public Security Sub-Bureau in Linyi for spreading Falun Gong among the public. She was immediately criminally detained and later arrested by the procuratorate. She was illegally held at the Linyi Detention Center. On May 30, 2024, Feng Guichun was sentenced by the Lanshan District Court to four years in prison and fined 30,000 yuan. She appealed to the Linyi Intermediate Court, which upheld the original judgment. Sentence ends: August 23, 2027.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/4.html
8/Wang Yifei: One of the founders of the “Xinghua Association” and the “China Democratic Victory Party,” sentenced to seven years and six months, has been imprisoned for exactly four years
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 17, 2026, this website learned that Wang Yifei, one of the founders of the “Xinghua Association” and the “China Democratic Victory Party,” who was sentenced to seven years and six months, had been imprisoned for exactly four years. Wang Yifei was arrested again on May 17, 2022. He had founded the Xinghua Association, spraying slogans in various places calling for disclosure of officials' assets, direct election of people's representatives, redress for June Fourth, and an end to one-party rule. He was arrested on June 6, 2018, and later sentenced to two years for picking quarrels and provoking trouble. After his release, he was again arrested on May 17, 2022, for participating in the establishment of the China Democratic Victory Party and was later sentenced to seven years and six months for subversion. He is currently serving his sentence at Leimaping Prison in Sichuan Province.
Biography of Wang Yifei: Born June 20, 1985, from Dongkou County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province; long-term resident of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province; alias Xiao Li; online name “Yifei Takes to the Sky”; member of the secret online organization “Xingzhonghui”; founder of the secret online democracy-movement organization “Xinghua Association”; important member of the China Democratic Victory Party, a secret party organization; victim in the “2022 Luzhou mass-arrest case”; Chinese political prisoner. For many years he had engaged quietly but actively in the democracy movement. Because he founded and, together with dissident Zeng Guofan and others, actively promoted the online organization “Xinghua Association,” advocated that people in China establish civic circles and carried out activities to enlighten the public, he was subjected to strict control and suppression by the Jiangxi authorities. Members and supporters of the association sprayed sensitive official slogans on buildings in Nanchang, Ganzhou and other places, including “Disclose officials' assets; directly elect people's representatives,” “Redress June Fourth; end one-party rule,” and “May the souls of the June Fourth martyrs rest in peace.” Their propaganda slogans were signed “Xinghua Association.” On June 6, 2018, Wang Yifei and Zeng Guofan and his wife were taken away by Nanchang police and the following day criminally detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power. Zeng Guofan's wife was later released on bail, while Wang Yifei and Zeng Guofan continued to be detained by the April 28 joint task force formed by the Nanchang Municipal Public Security Bureau. On July 13, 2018, the two were formally arrested by the Nanchang Procuratorate on the same charge and held at the First Nanchang Detention Center. On April 3, 2019, their case was heard by the Nanchang County Court of Jiangxi Province, which changed the charge and sentenced them to two years in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” They were later sent to Hongdu Prison in Nanchang to serve their sentences. On June 6, 2020, they were released after completing their sentences. On May 9, 2022, his WeChat public account “Yifei Takes to the Sky” suddenly stopped operating, and his WeChat Moments stopped updating on May 17. It was later learned that he had been taken away by police in Luzhou, Sichuan, and placed under residential surveillance. On September 7 of the same year, he was transferred to criminal detention, and on September 30 he was arrested. In November 2024, he was harshly sentenced to seven years and six months in prison, deprived of political rights for three years and fined 80,000 yuan, with the sentence ending in January 2030. On January 25, 2025, it was learned that five other core members had been sentenced with him. All were accused of participating in the establishment and development of the “China Democratic Victory Party.” Following trials by the Luzhou Intermediate Court of Sichuan Province and the Sichuan Higher Court, all were sentenced to terms ranging from 12 to three years for subversion of state power: Wang Yifei received seven years and six months; Tang Gaofeng 12 years; Wang Wei eight years; Zhou Dan six years; Liu Zhenggang five years and six months; and Dai Lu three years. This was a typical “persecution case involving secret party organizing.” All six were out of contact for three years; almost none of their families received any legal documents or notices, and they were not allowed to meet the defendants or retain defense lawyers. They received only intimidation and threats, so the case remained little known publicly. He was previously detained in Ward 1 of the Luzhou Detention Center in Sichuan Province. He was later transferred to Ward 9 of Leimaping Prison in Fuxi Township, Emeishan City, Sichuan Province. Sentence ends: January 2030.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/764.html
9/Xu Lin: Renowned democracy activist and human-rights defender Xu Lin, sentenced to three years and nine months, has reached the second anniversary of his imprisonment
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 16, 2026, this website learned that today marked the second anniversary of the re-arrest of Xu Lin, a renowned democracy activist and human-rights defender sentenced to three years and nine months. Beginning in 2010, Xu Lin carried out activities in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places including holding signs and giving speeches in the streets and organizing civic gatherings. In recent years, he collaborated with Liu Sifang to create many songs about freedom, human rights and the rule of law. He has been arrested many times. On September 26, 2017, he was arrested and later sentenced to three years for picking quarrels and provoking trouble. On May 16, 2024, he was arrested again and later sentenced to three years and nine months. Mr. Xu Lin was transferred to Guangdong Yingde Prison in September 2025. His sentence ends on February 15, 2028. During this imprisonment, poor food and hygiene conditions caused Xu Lin severe malnutrition and his weight to drop below 50 kilograms. He suffers from several health problems, including a breast lump and perforated teeth. The Guangzhou Nansha Detention Center, where he was previously held, not only failed to provide medical treatment but also deprived Xu Lin of his right to communicate. The Chinese Communist authorities have subjected Xu Lin to harsh torture. Xu Lin has said that he will strive to defend his rights and does not rule out fighting with his life.
Profile of Xu Lin: Born April 9, 1964, from Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province; poet; philosophy researcher; Guangdong online writer; member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center; democratic dissident; Chinese conscience prisoner. Since the late 1990s, he had written current-affairs articles and poetry and composed songs. Beginning in 2010, he actively carried out activities in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places including holding signs, giving speeches and organizing civic gatherings in the streets. In recent years, because he collaborated with rights defender Liu Sifang to create and produce numerous songs about freedom, human rights and the rule of law, he became popular among freedom and democracy enthusiasts, arousing strong dissatisfaction from the Guangdong authorities and becoming a target of strict stability-maintenance control. He was repeatedly illegally detained and secretly held. In 2012, after adapting a poem by Zhejiang dissident Zhu Yufu, “It's Time,” into a song titled “Right Now,” which attracted broad attention and redistribution by netizens, he was criminally detained by Guangzhou police on April 4 of that year on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power.” He was held at the Panyu Detention Center in Guangzhou and accused of conduct more serious than holding signs in the streets of Guangzhou, with an obvious intention of inciting the public to take to the streets and extremely serious circumstances. On May 4, he was transferred by the Guangdong authorities to secret residential surveillance at another location. During this period, his family repeatedly requested written notification and the location of his detention, but both requests were refused. In August of the same year, he participated in the “Thousand-Person Civic Gathering at Lotus Hill Park” initiated by democracy activist Wang Dengchao and planned to deliver a political speech at the event, but was abducted by the authorities beforehand and secretly held for three months. In August 2015, the song “Song of the Justice Lawyers,” which he composed after the “709” mass arrests, angered the authorities. His employer forced him out of work under official pressure, and he was abducted and placed under house arrest in Guangzhou for one month. On September 26, 2017, shortly before the Chinese Communist Party's 19th National Congress, he was suddenly criminally detained by police in Nansha District, Guangzhou, on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble while caring for his ill father in his Hunan hometown. His residence in Guangzhou was searched, and his computer, mobile phone, books, notebooks and other personal belongings were taken. The next day, his songwriting partner Liu Sifang was also taken away by police in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, on the same grounds. On November 2, 2017, he was formally arrested by the Nansha District Procuratorate of Guangzhou on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and held at the Nansha District Detention Center in Guangzhou. It is reported that he was tortured while detained and was interrogated in three shifts every day by police from October 5 to October 20. He maintained a complete refusal to give a statement. On December 7, 2018, he was sentenced to three years by the Nansha District Court of Guangzhou for picking quarrels and provoking trouble, with the sentence ending on September 25, 2020. He previously served his sentence at Gaoming Prison in Foshan, Guangdong Province. On May 17, 2024, Mr. Xu Lin was criminally detained by the Nansha branch of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. On June 22, 2024, it was learned that he had been formally arrested. He remained detained at the Nansha Detention Center in Guangzhou. His trial began on March 18, 2025. On August 8, 2025, the Nansha Court in Guangzhou announced its judgment, sentencing Xu Lin to three years and nine months, with the sentence ending on February 15, 2028. On September 11, 2025, he was transferred to Guangdong Yingde Prison, No. 1, Road 4, Jinzi Mountain Avenue, Chengbei, Yingde City, Guangdong Province.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/392.html
10/Joshua Wong: Case against prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong under the Hong Kong National Security Law for “conspiracy to collude with a foreign country or with external forces to endanger national security” completes committal proceedings to the Hong Kong High Court; Joshua Wong remains remanded
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 15, 2026, this website learned that on May 14, the case against Joshua Wong alleging violation of the Hong Kong National Security Law through “conspiracy to collude with a foreign country or with external forces to endanger national security” completed committal proceedings to the Hong Kong High Court, and Joshua Wong was remanded in custody. On June 6, 2025, the 28-year-old prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested again in prison and accused of violating the Hong Kong National Security Law through “conspiracy to collude with a foreign country or with external forces to endanger national security.” In the earlier case involving 47 people, he was sentenced in 2024 to four years and eight months for conspiracy to subvert state power. He is currently serving his sentence at Stanley Prison in Hong Kong. He is the second person, after Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai, to be prosecuted in Hong Kong for “colluding with foreign forces.”
Biography of Joshua Wong: Born October 13, 1996; English name Joshua Wong Chi-fung; Christian; Chinese national (Hong Kong) and British national; non-party-affiliated pro-democracy figure; named one of Time magazine's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014 in the United States; leader of the Umbrella Movement; convenor of Hong Kong's student-movement trend; secretary-general of Demosisto; Chinese political prisoner. From childhood, he participated in church activities with his parents, volunteered and enthusiastically served community affairs. In 2014, he studied at the Open University of Hong Kong and graduated from university with excellent results in October 2020. On May 29, 2011, he and secondary-school classmate Ivan Lam Long-yin founded the student organization Scholarism. They organized student marches and rallies many times to oppose the Hong Kong government's brainwashing education supporting the Chinese Communist Party under the guise of moral and national education, attracting broad attention from all sectors of society. On July 15, 2012, he was invited to appear on City Forum to debate the national-education issue with other guests. His outstanding performance won broad public praise and became the spark that led to the full outbreak of Hong Kong's opposition to “brainwashing education.” On September 26, 2014, he was arrested for participating in the Umbrella Movement and leading students in a “Peaceful Occupy Central” class boycott rally, and was later released on bail. On April 10, 2016, because he founded Demosisto with Ivan Lam and others, advocated autonomy for Hong Kong while not supporting Hong Kong independence, and stated that “without democratic autonomy, the only choice is Hong Kong independence,” he became “someone Beijing does not like.” On August 17, 2017, he was arrested again for the Civic Square reoccupation incident and sentenced to six months by the Hong Kong High Court for unlawful assembly. On January 17, 2018, the court added three months to his sentence for criminal contempt of court. He appealed, and on May 16, 2019, the sentence was reduced to two months. After his release, he joined the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, called on the government to clearly withdraw the bill and retract its erroneous characterization of the June 9 million-person march as a riot, and said that Chief Executive Carrie Lam no longer had the qualifications to remain chief executive because she had caused Hong Kong people to bleed, making the Hong Kong government and Chinese Communist authorities even more uneasy. On August 13, 2019, as a large-scale gathering and protest at Hong Kong International Airport was about to occur, he livestreamed on Facebook and called for the march to draw more than one million people. He was taken away on the street by police on August 30 and charged by prosecutors with offenses including “inciting others to participate in an unauthorized assembly.” On September 8, 2019, he was detained again by police for “violating bail conditions” while preparing to go to Germany to discuss the situation in Hong Kong. On October 29 of the same year, because he registered to run in district council elections, he was deprived of the right to stand by Beijing's “hard order.” On June 30, 2020, after the National People's Congress passed the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law,” he was forced to announce his resignation as secretary-general of Demosisto and withdraw from the organization, stating that he would pursue his beliefs in the future in his personal capacity. In June 2019, in connection with the case involving the surrounding of Hong Kong police headquarters, he, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam were detained again by police. Although they were temporarily released on bail, they were later remanded and arrested. On November 23, 2020, their case was heard at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court on three charges: “inciting others to participate in an unauthorized assembly,” “organizing an unauthorized assembly” and “knowingly participating in an unauthorized assembly.” On December 2 of the same year, they were sentenced separately, with Wong receiving 13 and a half months. Earlier, he had been sentenced to four months for the unauthorized assembly in Causeway Bay on October 5. In 2021, he was again sentenced to 10 months by the Hong Kong District Court for the “unauthorized assembly” case involving the June Fourth candlelight vigil. On appeal, this was reduced to eight months, with the sentences from the two convictions served separately. In March 2022, he completed his prison sentence, but was still required to remain in Stanley Prison awaiting further proceedings after being charged over his participation in the 2020 Legislative Council primary, with the authorities alleging that his conduct violated the Hong Kong National Security Law offense of “subversion of state power.” On April 17, 2023, he was sentenced to three months by the Hong Kong High Court for “contempt of court” after being accused of “disclosing personal information of police officers.” On November 19, 2024, when the 47-person subversion case was sentenced collectively at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court, he was sentenced to four years and eight months for “conspiracy to subvert state power.” He is currently serving his sentence at Stanley Prison in Hong Kong.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_15.html
11/Ko Yiu-lam: Ko Yiu-lam, sentenced to six years and seven months in the “Hong Kong 47” case, spent his 55th birthday in prison
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 13, 2026, this website learned that May 12, 2026, was the 55th birthday of Ko Yiu-lam (Ricky Or Yiu-lam), who was sentenced to six years and seven months in the “Hong Kong 47” case. He spent his birthday in prison.
Biography of Ko Yiu-lam: Born May 12, 1971; English name Ricky Or Yiu-lam; formerly a British Hong Kong national and currently a Hong Kong national of the People's Republic of China; former chair of the Tseung Kwan O People's Livelihood Concern Group; member and former secretary-general of the Frontier; former Standing Committee member of the Democratic Party; former convenor of the District Council Alliance; former chairman of the owners' corporation of Kwong Ming Court; former councillor for the Kwong Ming constituency of the Sai Kung District Council of Hong Kong; pro-democracy figure; Chinese political prisoner. In his early years, he was an audio-equipment merchant. In the 2003 Hong Kong District Council elections, he ran for the first time and was successfully elected as councillor for the Kwong Ming constituency of the Sai Kung District Council. He later joined the Frontier, becoming its only district councillor in Sai Kung. In the 2004 Hong Kong Legislative Council elections, he and two others registered to run in the New Territories East constituency, but because of coordination among the pro-democracy camp in the constituency, they joined the July 1 Alliance to allow members of several democratic parties to run jointly, and he ultimately lost after ranking seventh. In the 2007 Hong Kong District Council elections, he again ran in Kwong Ming and won re-election by a narrow margin. In 2008 and 2012, he ran in Hong Kong Legislative Council elections twice but lost each time by a small vote margin. During this period, because the Frontier merged with the Democratic Party, he, then secretary-general of the Frontier, subsequently joined the Democratic Party. In September 2018, after the Democratic Party Central Committee approved the classification of the Tseung Kwan O People's Livelihood Concern Group as a political organization, he and other party members could no longer run under both labels because they were also Democratic Party members. This led him to criticize Democratic Party legislators including Lam Cheuk-ting for allegedly deliberately arranging candidates to clash in the 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections and for acting arrogantly. In December of the same year, he and 58 other members announced their withdrawal from the Democratic Party. In the 2019 district council elections, he returned to run in Kwong Ming as convenor of the District Council Alliance and chairman of the owners' corporation of Kwong Ming Court, and was successfully elected as a Sai Kung district councillor. In the 2020 Legislative Council elections, he participated in the pro-democracy camp's New Territories East primary, but the Legislative Council election was ultimately canceled by the Hong Kong government. In January 2021, he and several other pro-democracy figures were arrested by police on suspicion of conspiracy to subvert state power and were later released. On February 28 of the same year, he was arrested again on suspicion of violating the Hong Kong National Security Law by participating in the pro-democracy camp's Legislative Council primary involving 47 people. On March 6, after indicating through a lawyer that he would immediately withdraw from all political connections and organizations, the High Court approved his release on bail pending trial. In October 2021, the government disqualified him as a district councillor and suspended his eligibility to stand for election for five years. On May 30, 2024, he was remanded in custody and the designated national-security-law judge of the Hong Kong High Court found him guilty of “conspiracy to subvert state power.” On November 19 of the same year, the 47 defendants were sentenced at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court. Because he had signed the “With Ink, Without Regret” declaration and “pleaded not guilty,” he was ultimately harshly sentenced to six years and seven months in prison, with the sentence expected to end in 2030. His current place of detention is unknown.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/674755.html
12/Ma Ling: Kunming, Yunnan Falun Gong practitioner Ma Ling, sentenced to three years, issued a second critical-illness notice in prison; family request for medical parole evaded
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 12, 2026, this website learned that Ma Ling, a Kunming, Yunnan Falun Gong practitioner sentenced to three years, had been issued a second critical-illness notice in prison, while the family's request for medical parole was evaded. On May 8, 2026, officers and doctors from Ward 9 of the Second Women's Prison of Yunnan Province telephoned her family to say that Ma Ling had developed a fever and abdominal distension on May 5 and that on May 7 the prison had sent her to the Central Hospital of the Yunnan Prison Administration Bureau for hospitalization. On May 9, the central hospital issued Ma Ling a critical-illness notice and said that her overall condition was very poor and that she still had a fever, the cause of which was still under investigation. Regarding the family's earlier request for medical parole, however, the Second Yunnan Women's Prison continued to evade and fob them off, citing reasons such as “we will handle it according to procedure.” Ma Ling was 69 in 2026. She is a retired associate research librarian at Yunnan University and has previously suffered more than 10 years of prison persecution. She was arrested and framed again in June 2024 and sentenced to three years.
Biography of Ma Ling: Female Falun Gong practitioner from Kunming City, Yunnan Province; born in 1957; 69 in 2026; retired associate research librarian at Yunnan University. On June 6, 2024, under the direction of the Kunming Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Xishan District Public Security Sub-Bureau was responsible for an operation in which police from the Xishan District state security brigade, Wuhua District state security brigade, Panlong District state security brigade, Guandu District state security brigade and several police stations under their jurisdiction, principally Zongshuying Police Station in Xishan District, mobilized in force to arrest Falun Gong practitioners. Police said the operation was the “1.6 special case.” More than 30 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested, including Ma Ling. She was immediately criminally detained and later arrested and indicted. On March 26, 2025, her case was heard by the Xishan District Court. In early May, Ma Ling was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 10,000 yuan. Sentence ends: June 5, 2027. She is serving her sentence at the Second Women's Prison of Yunnan Province.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/3.html
13/Ju Dianhong: Ju Dianhong, a preacher at a Christian house church in Yun County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, sentenced to 13 years, spent her 55th birthday in prison
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 10, 2026, this website learned that Ju Dianhong, a preacher at a Christian house church in Yun County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, who was sentenced by the Chinese Communist Party to 13 years, spent her 55th birthday in prison today. This was Ju Dianhong's 10th birthday in prison. She was arrested on October 21, 2016, and on December 28, 2017, was sentenced to 13 years for organizing and using a cult organization to undermine implementation of the law.
Biography of Ju Dianhong: Female, born May 10, 1971, from Linjiang City, Jilin Province; Christian; preacher at a Christian house church in Yun County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province; victim in the Yun County church case; Chinese conscience prisoner. Since 2015, because she and several others preached Christianity and developed believers in various parts of Yunnan in the form of house churches, and their influence gradually grew, the Chinese Communist authorities in Yunnan became alert and alarmed and soon formed the “2016 YN3-15 Three Servants Sect Cult Organization Project” to harshly crack down on and persecute its main members. On October 21, 2016, she and dozens of others were arrested and criminally detained by Yun County police in Lincang during the “mass arrests in the Yun County church case.” Her residence was also searched, and preaching materials, leaflets, mobile phones, computers and other items were taken. On November 25 of the same year, she and five others were formally arrested on suspicion of “using a cult organization to undermine implementation of the law.” They were accused of “holding secret gatherings, preaching and developing believers in multiple prefectures and cities in Yunnan; continuing to advocate and promote the theory of the end of the world; training organizational leaders; creating conditions and providing convenience for secret preaching and gatherings; and rebuilding the organizational system of the ‘Three Servants Sect,’” which was deemed illegal. She was treated as the principal defendant in the Yun County church case. On December 28, 2017, the Yun County Court of Yunnan Province sentenced her at first instance to 13 years in prison for “organizing and using a cult organization to undermine implementation of the law” and fined her 150,000 yuan. She appealed. The second-instance ruling upheld the original judgment, with the sentence ending on October 20, 2029. It is reported that she insists on freedom of belief and that belief is not a crime, and says that her faith is not a cult and that all her books can be purchased at officially recognized “Three-Self” churches. She is currently serving her sentence at the First Women's Prison of Yunnan Province in Kunyang Town, Jinning County, Kunming, postal code 650600.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/1355.html
14/Gao Shen: Renowned artist Gao Shen spent his 70th birthday in prison
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 10, 2026, this website learned that renowned artist Gao Shen spent his 70th birthday in prison today. On August 26, 2024, renowned artist Gao Shen, the elder brother of the Gao brothers, was criminally detained on suspicion of infringing the reputation of heroic martyrs while returning to China to visit relatives. He was subsequently arrested and indicted. On December 14, 2025, a lawyer's application for bail in Gao Shen's case was rejected, and the procuratorate recommended a three-year sentence. His case was heard publicly? in the Sanhe City Court of Hebei on March 30, 2026, in a closed proceeding. The Chinese Communist authorities refused to allow his family and EU diplomats to attend the trial. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed serious concern over the retroactive application of criminal law and the use of criminal measures to punish artistic expression, saying this damaged the principle of legality. It also expressed deep concern over reports that Gao Shen's health had deteriorated during detention. After Gao Shen's arrest, writer Ma Jian, who lives in the United Kingdom, launched a global joint-signature campaign in support and called on the authorities to release Gao Shen immediately. Nearly 200 writers and artists have signed the campaign. His wife remains subject to border controls and, for alleged “national security” reasons, cannot leave China. Their seven-year-old son, a U.S. citizen, still cannot return to New York to attend school.
Biography of Gao Shen: Elder brother of the renowned artists known as the “Gao brothers.” On August 27, 2024, his family received a detention notice from the Sanhe Municipal Public Security Bureau stating that he was suspected of infringing the reputation of heroic martyrs. The works allegedly involved were sculptures created years ago by the Gao brothers, “Gao Shen + Gao Qiang,” including Execution of Christ, the Miss Mao series and Mao Kneeling in Repentance. His wife and child are currently implicated and unable to leave the country. Gao Shen, the elder of the Gao brothers, was born on May 10, 1956. His younger brother Gao Qiang was born in 1962; both are from Jinan, Shandong Province. The Gao brothers are among the best-known Chinese artists to emerge during China's reform and opening period, and their firm political stance has left an imprint on their works. The Gao family suffered catastrophe during the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Zedong. Their father, from Jinan, the provincial capital on Shandong's coast, was persecuted to death in 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, when the brothers were six and 12 years old, respectively. The mother and six children learned of their father's alleged “suicide” only 25 days after his death, and they have always expressed doubts about it. Later, the Gao family went to Beijing to protest this injustice to the central government. In the end, they received only a negligible amount of compensation. Beginning in 1985, the Gao brothers worked together in painting, installation, performance and photography, among other artistic activities. Their sculptures and paintings in particular often addressed sensitive political issues. But the Gao brothers never considered themselves dissidents; they were merely expressing their views of society in the course of making art, which could touch on China's current system. In February 1989, while attending an art exhibition in Beijing, the Gao brothers happened to sign Fang Lizhi's open letter to Deng Xiaoping. They were consequently treated as dissidents and placed under the authorities' control. From 1989 to 2003, they were prohibited from leaving the country and were not freed from that restriction until 2004. In recent years, the Xi Jinping authorities have continuously strengthened controls over the speech of domestic dissidents and public intellectuals. In April 2018, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the Law on the Protection of Heroes and Martyrs, intended to hold citizens legally responsible for insulting or defaming the names, images and reputations of heroes and martyrs. It came into effect on May 1 of the same year. Gao Shen was arrested under this charge. His case was heard in closed proceedings on March 30, 2026.
Source of information:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/70.html
15/16/Zhou Songlin and Ding Zhongfu: Second-instance ruling in Hefei Ganquan Church case upholds first-instance sentences of four and a half years and four years
(China Human Rights Defenders Information Center report) On May 9, 2026, this website learned that the second-instance ruling in the case of Zhou Songlin and Ding Zhongfu of Hefei Ganquan Church upheld their first-instance sentences of four and a half years and four years. On May 7, 2026, without a hearing, lawyers received the written second-instance ruling from the Hefei Intermediate Court: the appeals were rejected and the original judgments upheld. On February 13, 2026, Elder Ding Zhongfu was sentenced to four years for fraud, with the sentence ending on November 30, 2027. Pastor Zhou Songlin was sentenced to four and a half years for fraud, with the sentence ending on May 31, 2028.
Profile of Zhou Songlin: Born in the 1960s, a native of Anhui Province, a Christian, formerly a preacher in a Three-Self church, founder and pastor of Ganquan House Church in Hefei, Anhui Province, and a Chinese prisoner of conscience. More than 30 years ago, after graduating from a Chinese theological seminary (government-approved), he was assigned to serve as a preacher at a church under the jurisdiction of a Three-Self church. After marrying, however, he and his wife felt a calling and resolutely left the Three-Self church (an "iron rice bowl" within the system) to establish Ganquan House Church in Hefei, Anhui Province. From then on, through their full-time ministry and diligent preaching of the Gospel, Ganquan Church had grown to 400–500 Christian believers by 2023; however, as the Chinese Communist authorities had continuously persecuted house churches over the past decade or more, and house churches in various places had been suppressed and dissolved, his church had also been forced to relocate repeatedly. Therefore, in order to prevent worship activities from being disrupted and disturbed, a church workers' assembly decided to use believers' offerings accumulated over many years to purchase two church properties for worship and fellowship activities. At the same time, to prevent the Chinese Communist authorities from refusing to recognize the property of the house church, several co-workers were collectively selected to hold the properties jointly (that is, the two properties were registered in the names of church elder Ding Zhongfu and two other church members). Through legal procedures, video notarization was archived to certify that the properties belonged to the church and that their ownership status was clear. However, this action later became the reason and evidence used by the authorities to arrest and prosecute the church's pastor and co-workers. On November 30, 2023, 16 pastors and co-workers from Ganquan Church, including him, were suddenly summoned at home by Hefei's Shushan District police. All their homes were searched. He, elder Ding Zhongfu, preacher Mao Junma, preacher Pei Defei, and administrative co-worker Yang Peiyun were then criminally detained on suspicion of "fraud." On December 28 of the same year, three preachers and co-workers were released on bail pending trial, while he and elder Ding Zhongfu remained in detention. They were subsequently formally arrested. The two men were accused in connection with Ganquan Church's two properties and the church's financial transactions. In early May 2024, his defense lawyer learned from the Shushan District People's Procuratorate that the status of the case at that time was: "1. There will be no return for supplementary investigation; 2. The period will be extended by half a month; 3. There will be no plea-bargaining procedure because neither man confesses; 4. The case will be prosecuted in court no later than May 20." During this period, some workers (or people claiming to be workers) inside the church, under pressure from the authorities on multiple fronts, developed disagreements and divisions over the appointment of defense lawyers whom the authorities did not welcome, because the wives of the two men had hired those lawyers. This led some believers to say that they would withdraw from the church. In response, on May 5 he said from prison that the persecution he and elder Ding Zhongfu were suffering was in fact political persecution: "They did not actively participate in politics; rather, they were forced into politics." His wife also issued a statement saying that her husband "is an upright and devout Christian who has served the church full-time for 32 years. His ministry's principles are: loyalty to God, based on the Bible, exalting Christ, loving God and loving people," and that "to avoid temptation, he insists on not handling the church's money in his ministry" and that "not a single penny has entered his own pocket." She also appealed, saying that her pastor husband and elder Ding Zhongfu "did not illegally appropriate other people's property through deception. They are not fraudsters; they are innocent. Please return their freedom to them." Two other church believers also submitted petitions and written testimony at different times to the Hefei Religious Affairs Bureau and the criminal investigation team on behalf of the two men, who they said had been wrongfully arrested, but the authorities ignored them and refused to accept their testimony. On July 31, 2024, a pretrial conference was held at the Shushan District People's Court in Hefei in his fraud case. Because the defense lawyer argued that the prosecutor had failed to perform his duties, resulting in numerous problems in the indictment, the prosecutor was rendered speechless by questioning at the scene and had no choice but to suspend the conference early. A second pretrial conference was held on October 14 of the same year, but to this day there has still been no trial result in the case. It is understood that although his health is poor in the detention center, he has learned to live with three attitudes: the attitude of martyrdom, the attitude of spiritual cultivation, and the attitude of preaching. He also sent a message encouraging church believers to "firmly resolve to live for the Gospel." The court finally announced its verdict in the case on February 13, 2026. The result was as follows: Pastor Zhou Songlin was sentenced to four years and six months in prison and fined 30,000 yuan; his sentence runs until May 31, 2028. He is currently detained at Hefei Detention Center (Hefei (Men's) Detention Center, Supervision Detachment, Shuangfeng Meichonghu Road, Changfeng County, Hefei City, postal code: 230000).
Profile of Ding Zhongfu: Born in the 1960s, a native of Anhui Province, a Christian, an elder and person responsible for financial administration at Ganquan House Church in Hefei, Anhui Province, a family-education worker, and a Chinese prisoner of conscience. Because of his devout faith in Jesus Christ, he voluntarily served in the church. He was later ordained an elder and served as a pastoral co-worker at Ganquan Church in Hefei, Anhui Province. Because of his upright and kind character, his active and diligent efforts, his pursuit of fairness and justice, and his enthusiasm for the cause of family education, he was highly regarded by many people in the church and the surrounding community. In particular, through his words and example in the church, he helped many believers establish and strengthen good family relationships. However, although Ganquan Church in Hefei had developed for more than 20 years and expanded into a well-known local house church with 400–500 believers, it had frequently been raided and disturbed by the local Religious Affairs Bureau and police for more than a decade. On November 30, 2023, 16 pastors and co-workers from Ganquan Church were suddenly summoned at home by Hefei's Shushan District police. Everyone's home was searched. He, Pastor Zhou Songlin, preacher Mao Junma, preacher Pei Defei, and administrative co-worker Yang Peiyun were then criminally detained on suspicion of "fraud." On December 28 of the same year, three preachers and co-workers were released on bail pending trial, while he and Pastor Zhou Songlin remained detained and were later formally arrested on the same charge. The two men were accused in connection with Ganquan Church's two properties and the church's financial transactions. They were said to have "used the purpose of illegal appropriation, under the pretext of religion, to defraud others of a total of more than 3.39 million yuan, an especially large amount," and were therefore deemed to have committed fraud. On April 30, 2024, the case was transferred by the Shushan District police to the Shushan District Court for prosecution. In early May of the same year, the defense lawyer learned from Shushan District police officers that the case had been announced as follows: "1. There will be no return for supplementary investigation; 2. The period will be extended by half a month; 3. There will be no plea-bargaining procedure because neither man confesses; 4. The case will be prosecuted in court no later than May 20." During this period, several co-workers within the church, under pressure from the authorities on multiple fronts, developed disagreements and divisions over the appointment of defense lawyers whom the authorities did not welcome, because the wives of the two men had hired those lawyers. This led some believers to say that they would withdraw from the church. In response, Pastor Zhou Songlin, who was charged in the same case, said from prison on May 5 that the persecution he and elder Ding Zhongfu were suffering was "in fact political persecution," and that they had not "actively participated in politics, but had been forced into politics." At the same time, the wives of the two arrested pastors issued statements and appeals saying that their husbands had "not illegally appropriated other people's property through deception. They are not fraudsters; they are innocent. Please return their freedom to them." A number of other church believers also submitted petitions and written testimony at different times to the Hefei Religious Affairs Bureau and the criminal investigation team on behalf of the two men, proving that they had been wrongfully arrested and that there had been no deception or fraud, but the authorities ignored them and refused to believe them. On July 31, 2024, a pretrial conference was held in the case at the Shushan District People's Court in Hefei. Because the defense lawyer argued that the prosecutor had failed to perform his duties, resulting in numerous problems in the indictment, the prosecutor was rendered speechless by questioning and had no choice but to suspend the conference early. A second pretrial conference was held on October 14, 2024, but to this day the case has still been delayed without a verdict. It is understood that his health is extremely poor in the detention center. In addition to several chronic illnesses common among elderly people, his blood pressure has reached as high as 170/110 and cannot be controlled even with medication. He often experiences chest tightness, dizziness, and insomnia. His wife has appealed for the "immediate release of an innocent man." The court finally announced its verdict in the case on February 13, 2026. The result was as follows: Elder Ding Zhongfu was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 28,000 yuan; his sentence runs until November 30, 2027. He is currently detained at Hefei Detention Center (Hefei (Men's) Detention Center, Supervision Detachment, Shuangfeng Meichonghu Road, Changfeng County, Hefei City, Anhui Province, postal code: 230000).
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_565.html
17/Dong Yuyu: Former deputy director of the Commentary Department of Guangming Daily, sentenced to seven years for espionage, recently found to have a lung tumor and irregular heartbeat; his health is worrying
(Report by the Information Center of China Human Rights Defenders) On May 6, 2026, this website learned that Mr. Dong Yuyu, a former editor of Guangming Daily who was sentenced to seven years for espionage, recently was found to have a tumor in his lung and an irregular heartbeat, and that his health is worrying. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the family of Dong Yuyu, a former editor of Guangming Daily sentenced to seven years for espionage, told CPJ that a tumor had recently been found in his lung. The tumor measures 3.3 × 2.2 centimeters and is growing rapidly; Dong Yuyu has become visibly thinner. Medical examinations also showed that he had developed an irregular heartbeat. Doctors have fitted him with a Holter monitor to record his heart rhythm for 24 hours. Mr. Dong Yuyu was transferred to Tianjin Chaobai Prison to serve his sentence on March 17, 2026. This website strongly calls on the Chinese Communist authorities, on humanitarian grounds, to release Mr. Dong Yuyu immediately so that he can receive timely and effective medical care and treatment.
Profile of Dong Yuyu: Born in 1962, a native of Fushun, Liaoning Province, a participant in the June Fourth events, a former visiting scholar at Harvard University in the United States and Keio University and Hokkaido University in Japan, former deputy director of the Commentary Department of Guangming Daily, liberal thinker, and Chinese political prisoner. In his early years he studied in the Law Department of Peking University. After graduating in 1987, he began working at Guangming Daily. In 1989, he was sent down for one year for participating in the June Fourth protests, after which he returned to Guangming Daily. He also wrote for the domestic history magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu and wrote commentaries for the Chinese-language website of The New York Times. In 2006, after receiving a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard University, he spent one year as a visiting scholar there. He later also served as a visiting scholar at Keio University and Hokkaido University in Japan. On February 21, 2022, he was suddenly taken away by police for investigation after having lunch with a Japanese diplomat at the Xinqiao Hotel in Beijing. The Japanese diplomat was also taken away and released several hours later, but Dong was detained for a long period, and the suspected offense was unclear. That day, the Japanese government immediately lodged a protest, while the Chinese government responded that the two men were investigated and detained because they had engaged in activities "inconsistent" with their work. After he had been detained for more than a year, on March 23, 2023, his family finally received notification from Beijing police stating that he had been formally arrested on suspicion of "espionage" and prosecuted by a procuratorate in Beijing. His case was soon transferred to a Beijing court for trial. His family insisted that he was neither a spy nor a foreign agent. Seeking justice, family members who had previously chosen to remain silent decided to make the matter public. It is understood that since his detention, his family has not been allowed to meet with him, and his defense lawyer has met with him only once. To date, the specific date of his trial remains unclear. He is currently detained at a detention center somewhere in southern Beijing. On November 29, 2024, Dong Yuyu was sentenced by the Chinese Communist authorities to seven years in prison for "espionage." His sentence runs until February 20, 2029. On November 13, 2025, the second-instance verdict was announced: the appeal was rejected and the original verdict upheld. He was transferred to Tianjin Chaobai Prison to serve his sentence on March 17, 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/7_6.html
18/Chang Yuchun: Shaanxi pastor Chang Yuchun, sentenced to seven years for printing and selling Christian books, seriously ill in prison; situation worrying
(Report by the Information Center of China Human Rights Defenders) On May 4, 2026, this website learned that, according to a statement issued today by Chang Yuchun's son, Chang Shengyi: "My father Chang Yuchun and my mother Li Chenhui were detained on July 21, 2020, for selling Christian books. They were sentenced to seven years for the crime of illegal business operations, with both sentences running until September 1, 2027. I received a call from my father on May 3. His voice sounded extremely weak. He said that his health had deteriorated sharply and that the dislocation of his joints was becoming increasingly serious. The medication no longer has much effect; often he cannot eat or sleep. Every day he is suffering and enduring torment. We are preparing to set out to visit my father." Pastor Chang Yuchun is currently serving his sentence at Fuping Prison in Shaanxi Province (No. 1 Jiancai Road, Zhuangli Town, Fuping County, Shaanxi Province, postal code: 711711).
Profile of Chang Yuchun: Male, born February 21, 1968, formerly known as Chang Yuguang, a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, a resident of Room 10, 3rd Floor, Unit 1, Building 41, Jingwei Shangcheng Residential Community, Gaoling District, Xi'an, a Christian, legal representative of Shaanxi Guangyi Aisheng Printing Company, and a Chinese prisoner of conscience. Since June 2015, because his printing company printed large quantities of data and books related to Christian faith, it attracted close attention and concern from local authorities. On July 21, 2020, Xi'an cultural enforcement authorities, together with Xi'an state security authorities, sealed his company and conducted an appraisal. More than 210,000 religious books of various kinds were seized at the scene. The Shaanxi News Publishing and Film Quality Inspection Center later appraised 24 kinds of books, including Reformed Faith, and determined that they were illegal publications, "publications printed without authorization." Accordingly, on the following day (July 22), he and his wife Li Chenhui were immediately taken away by police from Gaoling District, Xi'an, and later placed under residential surveillance at a designated location on suspicion of "subversion of state power." On October 12 of the same year, the suspected offense was changed and he was criminally detained on suspicion of "illegal business operations." On October 22 of the same year, the Gaoling District People's Procuratorate approved his arrest on the same charge, alleging that he had operated a printing business without a printing license, printed illegal publications, and disrupted market order, and that these actions constituted the crime of illegal business operations, for which he should be arrested. On August 19, 2021, the Gaoling District Court sentenced him at first instance to seven years in prison for "illegal business operations" and fined him 250,000 yuan. He appealed. On November 15, 2021, the Xi'an Intermediate Court of Shaanxi Province ruled at second instance to reject the appeal and uphold the original verdict. His sentence runs until September 1, 2027.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/7.html
IV. List and profiles of the 10 people newly criminally detained or forcibly disappeared in this issue:
白兆东、魏永强、何晋宝、权小龙、龙剑、
程勇兵、周桂霞、虞少林、李勤、罗平、
1, Bai Zhaodong: Born January 10, 1970, a native of Hengshan District, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, former investigative reporter for Caijing. In 2015 he joined the legal and public affairs group of Caijing magazine and engaged for many years in investigative reporting on the judiciary, government-business relations, and society. His investigative works included the series The Hundred-Billion-Yuan Fake-Gold Loan Fraud Case, Local State-Owned Enterprise Takes Over Qinghai Alkaline Industry's 3.3 Billion Yuan in Assets at Half Price, Gansu Officialdom in Turmoil: Several Officials Jump into the Yellow River, and The Qinling Super Illegal Villa Project, which attracted broad attention in the public sphere. In the years before leaving China for Thailand, he focused on power structures and gray-interest networks in Shaanxi and northwestern China. Representative reports included Exposing the Interest Chain Behind Yan'an's Private Lending and Shaanxi's Version of the "Sun Xiaoguo Case": Robbed, Escaped from Prison, Killed a Police "Informant," and Mysteriously Emerged as a Coal Boss. Bai Zhaodong disappeared in Thailand in November 2025 and has remained missing without any news for six months. It was initially suspected that he was involved in a local property dispute, but it was later confirmed that this was unrelated to a civil dispute and was a secret kidnapping carried out jointly by the Chinese Communist regime and the Thai authorities. Before leaving China for Thailand, Bai Zhaodong had touched the interests of Chinese Communist officials by conducting investigative reporting and exposing the dark nexus of power and money between officials and businessmen. On November 27, 2025, Bai Zhaodong lost contact after sending his final message from Thailand. In February 2026, an appeal seeking help to find investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong circulated widely online, but the article was soon blocked in China, and its original author also appeared to delete it under pressure. Bai Zhaodong has remained completely unheard from for six months.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_24.html
2, Wei Yongqiang: A member of a Christian church in Kaili, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. In May 2026 it was learned that at a church in Kaili, six Christians including Wei Yongqiang had been arrested on charges of fraud and organizing minors to carry out activities that disrupt public security administration.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_11.html
3, He Jinbao: A member of a Christian church in Kaili, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. In May 2026 it was learned that at a church in Kaili, six Christians including He Jinbao had been arrested on charges of fraud and organizing minors to carry out activities that disrupt public security administration.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_11.html
4, Quan Xiaolong: A member of a Christian church in Kaili, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. In May 2026 it was learned that at a church in Kaili, six Christians including Quan Xiaolong had been arrested on charges of fraud and organizing minors to carry out activities that disrupt public security administration.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_11.html
5, Long Jian: A member of a Christian church in Kaili, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. In May 2026 it was learned that at a church in Kaili, six Christians including Long Jian had been arrested on charges of fraud and organizing minors to carry out activities that disrupt public security administration.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_11.html
6, Cheng Yongbing: A member of a Christian church in Kaili, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. In May 2026 it was learned that at a church in Kaili, six Christians including Cheng Yongbing had been arrested on charges of fraud and organizing minors to carry out activities that disrupt public security administration.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_11.html
7, Zhou Guixia: A member of a Christian church in Kaili, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. In May 2026 it was learned that at a church in Kaili, six Christians including Zhou Guixia had been arrested on charges of fraud and organizing minors to carry out activities that disrupt public security administration.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_11.html
8, Yu Shaolin: A preacher at the Century New City Church in Kunming, Yunnan; born in 1974 and 52 years old in 2026. On April 12, 2026, the Century New City Church in Kunming was raided during its Sunday gathering. The authorities detained preacher Yu Shaolin, Brother Li Qin, and Brother Luo Ping. All three were later arrested. Preacher Yu Shaolin suffers from thalassemia, which had improved considerably in recent years. He also suffers from carotid artery plaque, liver damage, poor kidney function, severe varicose veins in his right leg that cannot be operated on, and swelling and pain in his right leg.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/21.html
9, Li Qin: A member of the Century New City Christian Church in Kunming, Yunnan. On April 12, 2026, the Century New City Church in Kunming was raided during its Sunday gathering. The authorities detained preacher Yu Shaolin, Brother Li Qin, and Brother Luo Ping. All three were later arrested.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/21.html
10, Luo Ping: A member of the Century New City Christian Church in Kunming, Yunnan. On April 12, 2026, the Century New City Church in Kunming was raided during its Sunday gathering. The authorities detained preacher Yu Shaolin, Brother Li Qin, and Brother Luo Ping. All three were later arrested.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/21.html
V. List and profiles of the 13 people newly sentenced in this issue
8 years: 汤志伟、刘雪梅、周子闲、
7 years 9 months: 盖永光、
7 years: 胡晓云
6 years: 李德全、
4 years: 狄建超、
3 years 6 months: 王海圆、
3 years 3 months: 刘润苗、
3 years: 吕铜钢、
2 years: 张红杰、
1 year 6 months: 黄大贵、
1 year: 庞志华
Tang Zhiwei: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Meizhou, Guangdong. On October 11, 2025, Tang Zhiwei and his wife Liu Xuemei were followed and monitored while posting Falun Gong stickers and distributing Falun Gong leaflets. At around 9:50 p.m. on October 12, they were arrested by police from the Meijiang District Public Security Bureau near their residential community, and their home was ransacked. The police seized a laptop, printer, Falun Gong books, Minghui Weekly, and other items. Tang Zhiwei and Liu Xuemei were immediately criminally detained and held at the Meizhou Detention Center. They were approved for arrest by the Meijiang District Procuratorate on November 17, 2025, and later prosecuted. On the afternoon of February 24, 2026, the Meixian District Court tried the couple. At the end of February, the court issued its verdict: both were sentenced to eight years in prison and fined 120,000 yuan. Their sentences run until October 11, 2033.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/8.html
Liu Xuemei: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Meizhou, Guangdong. On October 11, 2025, Tang Zhiwei and his wife Liu Xuemei were followed and monitored while posting Falun Gong stickers and distributing Falun Gong leaflets. At around 9:50 p.m. on October 12, they were arrested by police from the Meijiang District Public Security Bureau near their residential community, and their home was ransacked. The police seized a laptop, printer, Falun Gong books, Minghui Weekly, and other items. Tang Zhiwei and Liu Xuemei were immediately criminally detained and held at the Meizhou Detention Center. They were approved for arrest by the Meijiang District Procuratorate on November 17, 2025, and later prosecuted. On the afternoon of February 24, 2026, the Meixian District Court tried the couple. At the end of February, the court issued its verdict: both were sentenced to eight years in prison and fined 120,000 yuan. Their sentences run until October 11, 2033.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/8.html
Zhou Zixian: A Falun Gong practitioner from Hengyang, Hunan Province, born in April 1956 and 70 years old in 2026; a graduate of a junior college, a retired employee of the Hengyang Petroleum Company, residing in the Zhengxiang South Road area of Yueping Xincun Community, Lianhe Subdistrict, Zhengxiang District, Hengyang. He began practicing Falun Gong in 1997. For more than 20 years, Zhou Zixian has suffered brutal persecution by the Chinese Communist Party for adhering to his Falun Gong faith. He was illegally detained, subjected to reeducation through labor, and sentenced to prison, serving more than seven years in wrongful imprisonment in total. During that time he was subjected to torture including being suspended by handcuffs, being shackled with his hands behind his back, beatings, force-feeding, electric shocks, and confinement in a strict-management room. Beginning in June 2022, Falun Gong practitioners produced audio programs and submitted them to the "Zhengjian Radio" section of Zhengjian Net. In the course of coordinating with one another, they created groups on social-media applications including Signal, Telegram, and Safechat for communication and discussion. Zhou Zixian took part in this, attracting the attention of the Chinese Communist authorities. At around 9 a.m. on March 31, 2024, Zhou Zixian was arrested and his home was ransacked. Police confiscated his laptop, tablet, portable hard drives, USB drives, mobile phone, CDs, voice recorder, mobile network card, and other items. He was held at the Hengdong County Detention Center and later transferred to the Hengyang Detention Center. On December 31, 2025, he was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Zhengxiang District Court and fined 30,000 yuan. His sentence runs until March 30, 2032.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/8_01120030432.html
Gai Yongguang: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Meihekou, Jilin Province, born in 1958 and 68 years old in 2026, residing in Hongmei Town, Meihekou. He began practicing Falun Gong in his early years. After the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Gai Yongguang was repeatedly criminally detained and tortured at the Hongmei Town Public Security Subbureau and T North Detention Center. On July 19, 2024, Gai Yongguang, his wife, and their non-practicing son and daughter-in-law were all arrested and their home was ransacked by police from the Henan and T North police stations in Meihekou. His wife, son, and daughter-in-law later returned home one after another, while Gai Yongguang was held at the Meihekou Detention Center. He was persecuted in the detention center until he could no longer walk, and several months later all information about him was lost. In May 2026 it was learned that Gai Yongguang, who had been detained for one year and 10 months, had been secretly sentenced to seven years and nine months. He had been transferred to the ninth ward of Jilin Prison in Jilin Province. His sentence runs until April 18, 2032.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/79.html
Hu Xiaoyun: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Hengyang, Hunan Province, born in August 1965 and 61 years old in 2026. She is a retired employee of the Hengyang Shoe Factory and lives in Jianshe Xincun, Shigu District, Hengyang. She began practicing Falun Gong in 1995. After the Chinese Communist Party began its intense persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Hu Xiaoyun was sentenced by the Chinese Communist authorities to one year in prison and subjected to prolonged forced brainwashing for adhering to her faith. Beginning in June 2022, Falun Gong practitioners produced audio programs and submitted them to the "Zhengjian Radio" section of Zhengjian Net. In coordinating with each other, they formed groups on Signal, Telegram, Safechat, and other social-media applications, attracting the attention of the authorities. For participating in this, Hu Xiaoyun was arrested by the Shigu District Public Security Subbureau on March 31, 2024. On December 31, 2025, she was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined 30,000 yuan by the Zhengxiang District Court. This was the second time Hu Xiaoyun had been illegally sentenced by the Chinese Communist authorities. Hu Xiaoyun appealed, but the Hengyang Intermediate Court upheld the original verdict in April 2026. Her sentence runs until March 30, 2031.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/7_0499173690.html
Li Dequan: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Jilin City, born in 1959 and 67 years old in 2026, residing in Xinghua Community, Changyi District, Jilin City. In 1998, he and his younger brother Li Dexiang began practicing Falun Gong at the same time. Since the Chinese Communist authorities began large-scale persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Li Dequan has spent a total of 10 years in wrongful imprisonment. In April 2024, he was again arrested at home by police, detained, and framed. In May 2026, news emerged that he had again been sentenced to six years in prison. He is currently serving his sentence at Gongzhuling Prison in Jilin Province. This is the third time he has suffered wrongful imprisonment. His sentence runs until April 2030.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/6_01409054758.html
Di Jianchao: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Kunming, Yunnan Province, born in 1965 and 61 years old in 2026. Former employee of Kunming Shipbuilding First Machinery Co., Ltd., residing in Xiaobanqiao, Kunming. Because he practiced Falun Dafa, Di Jianchao was arrested by Kunming police in 2004 and subsequently sentenced to four years in prison, suffering wrongful imprisonment and persecution at Yunnan No. 1 Prison. In 2014, Di Jianchao was again abducted by Kunming police and subsequently sentenced to another four and a half years, during which he again suffered wrongful imprisonment and persecution at Yunnan No. 1 Prison. On the evening of July 15, 2025, Di Jianchao was arrested by Kunming police, who also seized his car, mobile phone, and other items. He was immediately held at the Guandu District Detention Center, and was later criminally detained, formally arrested, and prosecuted. On April 30, 2026, Di Jianchao was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 6,000 yuan by the Wuhua District Court in Kunming (the judgment is [2025] Yun 0102 Xing Chu No. 889). His sentence runs until July 14, 2029.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/4_01068556751.html
Wang Haiyuan: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Dongfeng Xincun, Sartu District, Daqing. In September 2024, Wang Haiyuan was monitored by police for distributing Falun Gong materials. Police from the Dong'an Subbureau of the Sartu District Public Security Bureau in Daqing ransacked her home and arrested her. She returned home that day on "bail pending trial." She was later persecuted by the public security, procuratorate, and courts of Sartu District, Daqing. On June 3, 2025, Wang Haiyuan was arrested and imprisoned by the Dong'an Subbureau of the Sartu District Public Security Bureau and held at the Daqing Detention Center. Between September and October 2025, she was sentenced by the first- and second-instance courts to three years and six months in prison. On November 27, 2025, she was transferred to Heilongjiang Women's Prison to serve her sentence. Her sentence runs until December 2, 2028.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/36.html
Liu Runmiao: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Taiyuan, Shanxi, born in 1992 and 34 years old in 2026. Both her parents are Falun Gong practitioners. After Liu Runmiao was arrested, her mother Liu Guihua was again forced to become displaced and remains missing. Her father Liu Wuyun died under unjust circumstances shortly before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2024. Liu Runmiao was subjected to a home raid and arrested in March 2025, and was held at the No. 4 Women's Detention Center in Taiyuan. On August 14, 2025, she was tried by the Yingze District Court in Taiyuan and sentenced to three years and three months in prison and fined 5,000 yuan. Her sentence runs until June 2028.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/33.html
Lü Tonggang: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, born in 1975 and 51 years old in 2026, residing in Chenghoudong Village, Daming Town, Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. Because he practiced Falun Gong, he was subjected to long-term surveillance and harassment and forced to leave home and live elsewhere. On April 29, 2025, Lü Tonggang was arrested and his home was ransacked by police from the Ningcheng County Domestic Security Brigade and local police station. He was held at the Ningcheng County Detention Center. In May 2026 it was learned that he had been sentenced to three years in prison on January 7, 2026, and later transferred to Chifeng Prison to serve his sentence. His sentence runs until April 28, 2028. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/3_0985767234.html
Zhang Hongjie: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Linghe District, Jinzhou, Liaoning, born in 1973 and 53 years old in 2026. On August 14, 2025, Zhang Hongjie was arrested and her home was ransacked. She was later held at the Jinzhou Women's Detention Center, where she was framed. On November 10, 2025, the Linghai Court tried her and subsequently sentenced her to two years in prison. On May 21, 2026, she was taken to Liaoning Women's Prison to continue serving her sentence. Her sentence runs until August 13, 2027. Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/2.html
Huang Dagui: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Guang'an, Sichuan Province, born in 1954 and 72 years old in 2026. She formerly lived in Shuikou Village, Tianping Town, Yuechi County, Guang'an, and later rented a room and worked in Nanchong. She began practicing Falun Gong in 2001. She was subsequently arrested several times for distributing Falun Gong materials and was sentenced to one year in prison in 2016. On September 3, 2025, Huang Dagui was followed and arrested for distributing Falun Gong materials. She was subsequently held at the Jialing District Supervision Center in Nanchong. On November 3, the case was framed and sent to the Shunqing District Procuratorate in Nanchong. On November 16, the Shunqing District Court held her trial. On May 9, 2026, she was sentenced to one year and six months in prison. Her sentence runs until March 2, 2027.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/1672.html
Pang Zhihua: A male Falun Gong practitioner from Yinan County, Shandong, approximately 50 years old in 2026. A villager from Shanglang Village, Yinan County, he formerly worked as a privately employed teacher at Suozhuang Primary School in the area. He began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. After the Chinese Communist authorities began large-scale persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, he was repeatedly persecuted and was subjected to one year of illegal reeducation through labor. In October 2025, Pang Zhihua sent a message to a friend via WeChat saying "Falun Dafa is good." The online police of Yinan County detected it, and Pang Zhihua was immediately arrested by the Domestic Security Brigade of Yinan County and the Shuanghou Town police station. He was then criminally detained and held at the Yinan County Detention Center. He was later formally arrested and prosecuted. In May 2026 he was sentenced to one year in prison. His sentence runs until October 2026.
Source:https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/1.html
VI. Statistical table of sentences for the 1,661 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience detained in mainland China in this issue:
The list of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience who have been sentenced and remain detained in this issue is arranged according to the length of their sentences, from death sentences pending approval, suspended death sentences, and life imprisonment to fixed-term imprisonment, unknown sentences, and detention without trial. The list is as follows:
(1) Suspended death sentences: 11 people in total. They are:
朱惠来、朱培忍、罗让贡求（Tibetan）、丁汉忠、明经国、塔西甫拉提·特依拜（Uyghur）、哈木拉提.吾甫尔、王国廷、沙塔尔·沙吾提、崔斌希、尔扎提•巴吾东（Uyghur）
(2) Life imprisonment: 19 people in total. They are:
王炳章、买买提江•阿布都拉（Uyghur）、旺堆（Wangdu）（Tibetan）、伊力哈木•土赫提（Uyghur）、白玛益西（Tibetan）、索南公保（Solnam Gonpo）（Tibetan）、吴泽衡、徐福明、胡勇、巩进军、麦尔丹•赛伊塔洪（Uyghur）、阿布杜热扎克•夏木西丁（Uyghur）、索南林珠（Tibetan）、多吉扎西（Tibetan）、强巴旺秋（Tibetan）、阿布都热扎克•沙依木（Uyghur）、热依拉•达吾提（Uyghur）、阿卜杜韦利·穆基伊特、努尔塔伊阿吉·斯坎德尔、
(3) Fixed-term imprisonment: 1,367 people in total. They are:
Sentenced to 25 years, 5 people: 阿吾勒别克·努尔加合蒲（Kazakh）、迪力夏提·吾力拜依（Kazakh）、肉孜•艾木杜拉、艾合麦提·麦提尼亚孜、肉孜·艾木都、
Sentenced to 23 years, 1 person: 腊吾尔孜拜•依孜巴沙尔（Kazakh）、
Sentenced to 21 years, 1 person: 叶尔江．胡阿西（Kazakh）
Sentenced to 20 years, 13 people: 色力克.木海（Uyghur）、阿斯哈·阿孜提别克（Kazakh）、贡觉尼玛（Tibetan）、依司马伊利.斯迪克（Uyghur）、刘尧、李怀庆、古丽仙•阿巴斯（Uyghur）、伊敏江•拉赫米图拉（Uyghur）、曲嘉旺波、赛里克•木海（Kazakh）、黎智英、阿布力米提·霍舒尔·哈里斯、卡西姆·西迪克、
Sentenced to 19 years 10 months, 1 person: 艾尔肯•吐尔逊（Uyghur）、
Sentenced to 19 years, 7 people: 张海涛、巴和提古丽·吾力拜依（Kazakh）、恰特合•达吾列提（Kazakh）、次成嘉措（Tibetan）、古丽米拉•艾明（Uyghur）、罗桑金巴、吕桂玲、
Sentenced to 18 years, 11 people: 木拉提别克．吾麻尔（Kazakh）、海米提·阿不都热合曼（Uyghur）、洛迪嘉措（Tibetan）、沙阿呆提·巴吴顿（Uyghur）、塔多坚参（Tibetan）、任志强、孙大午、杨金德、丹增曲培、郝劲松、阿尔斯兰·阿布都拉、
Sentenced to 17 years 6 months, 1 person: 穆萨江•伊玛目（Uyghur）
Sentenced to 17 years, 4 people: 吉力利·阿布都拉（Kazakh）、诺布•顿珠、别尔扎提·波拉特汉、阿力甫·巴拉提·爱尔克、
Sentenced to 16 years, 1 person: 帕尔哈提·吐尔逊（Uyghur）、
Sentenced to 15 years, 12 people: 益西曲珍（Tibetan）、迪克坦开（Tibetan）、牙里坤.肉孜（Uyghur）、陈杰人、伊克帕·阿萨特 (also translated as: 艾克拜尔·艾塞提)（Uyghur）、巴给拉·吾力拜依（Kazakh）、陈洪伟、乃比江•艾比布拉（Uyghur）、买买提•艾木杜拉、杨荣丽、冯斯瑜、库尔班·马木提、
Sentenced to 14 years 11 months, 2 people: 麦尔耶姆古丽·麦海提、阿斯穆姑丽·麦麦提依明、
Sentenced to 14 years 6 months, 2 people: 武全、艾山江•卡日（Uyghur）、
Sentenced to 14 years, 13 people: 赵海通、包国华、珠扎（Tibetan）、珠玛别克.穆汗（Kazakh）、宋志刚、果然、王清、马智武、牛腾宇、岗吉•志巴加（Tibetan）、许志永、阚小勇、艾合麦提江·居麦、
Sentenced to 13 years, 11 people: 次成加材（Tibetan）、洛桑克珠（Tibetan）、鞠殿红、秦永敏、孔文涛、张德武、楚继东、艾济孜•阿卜杜拉、苏秀福、阿不都卡德尔·加拉里丁、阿巴拜克力·阿布都热西提、
Sentenced to 12 years, 25 people: 姜伟、洛桑格培（Tibetan）、肖传雄、达吾提汗.达尔古色孜（Kazakh）、革振华、张顺新、黄琦、邓洪成、陈强、不列斯白克•叶尔买克巴依（Kazakh）、何萍、孙萌、孙德华、张文英、李国庆、李长安、丁家喜、侯利军、范文成、王立群、成孝宝、徐亚芬、尹桂英、唐高峰、艾尔肯·塔维克库力、
Sentenced to 11 years 6 months, 1 person: 马铁甫汗•再努拉、
Sentenced to 11 years, 7 people: 阿布拉江·阿乌提·阿有普（Ablajan Awut Ayup）、吴文章、孙志芬、王素平、吴成收、刘庆、上官云开、
Sentenced to 10 years 8 months, 2 people: 马春、李立壮、
Sentenced to 10 years 6 months, 1 person: 魏永汉
Sentenced to 10 years, 45 people: 杨雄、庄友布、奥坎（Kazakh）、萨尔克提江（Kazakh）、肯杰别克·阿纳尔别克（Kazakh）、别热克汗.朵兰汗（Kazakh）、梁琴、周育琴、黄云敏、刘仁秋、朱家彩、李国爱、宋玉芝、李晶、栾凝、加尔肯别克·卡生巴依（Kazakh）、巴依木拉提·那如孜别克（Kazakh）、郭平珍、哈德力别克•努尔兰（Kazakh）、杨丽艳、曾凡锦、海拉提江•乌斯曼（Uyghur）、于波、张廷祥、张秀芝、任海飞、果•喜饶嘉措、张训菊、王义红、王翠兰、赵晋中、蔡秀瑛、方世梅、褚新宇、焦传富、部金香、戴耀廷、康淑梅、任建平、毛丽旦·依拉吾冬（Uyghur）、李卓忠、廖燕琼、杨俊成、丁香芹、田杏宝、
Sentenced to 9 years 8 months, 1 person: 朱鸣镝、
Sentenced to 9 years 7 months, 1 person: 王晓光、
Sentenced to 9 years 6 months, 5 people: 张仁光、朱孝清、戴之颖、徐长禄、付曌翠、
Sentenced to 9 years 4 months, 1 person: 唐竹茵、
Sentenced to 9 years 2 months, 1 person: 李双平、
Sentenced to 9 years 1 month, 1 person: 徐强
Sentenced to 9 years, 49 people: 彭石清、宫文义、施凤香、王淑华、王怡、高立娟、王琳琳、程桂靖、陈继海、李国欣、杜荣、张慧岩、孙利、何喜梅、王建敏、时绍平、张盛全、李嘉惠、孙志华、包万明、申学文、张鹏、邓万英、蔡玉英、高晓歧、冯立齐、唐英杰、陈鸿元、王平创、张霞（Wuhan）、胡金慧、周三永、刘玲、张立萍、周华建、郎东月、高俊、易家海、王红（Chongqing）、田丽莎、胡彪、杨智渊、齐志银、杜秀艳、尹福英、陈艳秋、彭立发、姜德新、霍桂兰、
Sentenced to 8 years 11 months, 1 person: 刘颖匡
Sentenced to 8 years 6 months, 7 people: 谭顺碧、李源东、赵美君、张玉萍、戴淑芳、庄东杰、占祥军、
Sentenced to 8 years 4 months, 1 person: 黄渝彬、
Sentenced to 8 years, 67 people: 武桂芝、乔向阳、任素香、王聚才、韩猛、刘艳华、梁春华、宋德满、赵俊香、王瑞玲、罗巧俐、张珍华、杨建录、曹爱兰、李美莲、刘伟、艾朝玉、曾尉英、关兴涛、曾繁杰、耿福霞、许那、于柏青、朱明容、邬成均、郝志娓、李万兵、朱恩华、张秀兰、孙万帅、桑珠（Tibetan）、杨明玉、程巧云、曲兴、郭春玲、赵婕、郭飞雄、周德勇、李凤英、韩春波、何祖彬、严英中、刘伟（Hanzhong）、刘顺芝、曹萍、赵舒妞、苏锦玲、刘敬书、马云、张善娟、李友滨、于桂春、匡宗尧、李艳霞、林洪杰、王威、孟庆洁、曲鹏程、秦振泉、张莲桂、孙桂香、白鸿敏、韩丽华、岗•次仁卓玛、汤志伟、刘雪梅、周子闲、
Sentenced to 7 years 9 months, 3 people: 许章清、邹家成、盖永光、
Sentenced to 7 years 8 months, 2 people: 郝京明、宋爱玉、
Sentenced to 7 years 6 months, 29 people: 陈松艳、田宝昌、张莉、许高瑞、刘社红、陈世贵、孟祥岐、张素英、罗江英、鲁孟君、朱凤兰、李彦春、马民庆、李彬、田树君、顾爱民、张菊红、张玉香、许恒奎、关成林、王一飞、孙文田、陈敏、何卓君、黄子悦、孔凡卫、魏素雯、冷振辉、周传英、
Sentenced to 7 years 5 months, 1 person: 赵丽华、
Sentenced to 7 years 4 months, 2 people: 王明慧、邱新乃、
Sentenced to 7 years 3 months, 2 people: 霍晓辉、吴政亨、
Sentenced to 7 years, 100 people: 谢热扎提.阿海（Kazakh）、赵仁霞、范明兰、田世胜、陈迪才、李燕群、张玉明、涂爱莲、赵秀娟、闫卫宾、高金平、杨智雄、沈红奇、李行军、孙江怡、康卓才丹（Tibetan）、杨学华、曹艳芬、于健莉、王东吉、王克民、王凤芝、孟凡军、王玉红、王学勇、王铁壮、韩建平、谭秋成、杜景义、张志兰、常玉春、李琛慧、刘书梅、吴冬梅、蔡智慧、谢清玲、孙中丽、杨海霞、刘晓红、赵西娟、陈维权、张昆山、程连连、山福莲、刘臣金、贾精文、黎芸、骆元英、马芹、高鹏、莫新忠、赵天华、路朝波、刘淑珍、阮晓寰、王亚茹、刘燕美、陈仁林、岳乃亮、钟以美、朱瑞、苏翠芝、孙玉娇、张淑萍、蒋宗会、谭守礼、廖文仙、李霞、王华洋、徐金凤、胡玉蓉、郑玉明、王朝杰、孔庆平、谷久梅、梁桂娟、孔久红、姜春林、李艳萍、孙成荣、何桂蓝、朱继雨、郭长锁、董郁玉、高晓颖、张秀芳、赵家贤、王正勇、岗布优博、崔军、刘英君、孙洪柱、侯秀英、段晓荣、彭辉、肖文华、谢会建、杨小明、达杰、胡晓云、
Sentenced to 6 years 10 months, 1 person: 高永丽、
Sentenced to 6 years 9 months, 5 people: 阳春容、余慧明、区诺轩、梁国雄、林卓廷、
Sentenced to 6 years 7 months, 3 people: 何启明、施德来、柯耀林、
Sentenced to 6 years 6 months, 13 people: 孙士伟、王朋影、高鹏光、郭立彬、陈熙涛、胡明霞、伊克拉木.努尔买买提（Uyghur）、彭卓棋、黄碧云、杨雪盈、郑达鸿、陈志全、杨巧丽、
Sentenced to 6 years 3 months, 3 people: 姚淑霞、白洪友、刘会侠、
Sentenced to 6 years 2 months, 1 person: 王宗尧、
Sentenced to 6 years 1 month, 1 person: 钟锦麟、
Sentenced to 6 years, 58 people: 尹峰、杨丽霞、刘伯滨、傅炫娟、姜奎、于娇茹、单为和、吕相富、何清香、周秀华、杨立君、金敏、魏彬、周琳、李金兰、齐小云、塞朗（Tibetan）、徐英、李红红、刘玉梅、李群、徐丽娜、、赵庆平、覃秋艳（妮可）、杨洁、张萍、姚力书、何冰钢、宋宏伟、蒋明辉、吴有清、梁业宁、庄显坤、王进仓、史文卓、狄莲霞、孙淑云、罗长云、张秀琴、邓贤程、黄礼乔、吴佳健、薛顺蓉、彭建普、颜雪花、杨学贵、周丹、陈成个、高连厚、陆丽芳、冯国清、李树莲、李玉芬、卢素平、姜楠、巴丹益西、程方维、李德全、
Sentenced to 5 years 10 months, 1 person: 郑永新、
Sentenced to 5 years 7 months, 2 people: 伍健伟、李琴、
Sentenced to 5 years 6 months, 33 people: 刘甲兰、庄虾昌、李冬菊、戴传义、李方芳、张丽、李存国、李亚萍、布玉新、汪福明、李红卫、孙霞、李一星、李建西、刘振刚、龚瑞平、吴青元、曾秀琼、许静波、邵明亮、李国英、温粉华、魏三梅、杨传厚、吴炎哆、伊向阳、严德蓉、吕先锋、樊云鹏、杜长江、袁吟英、付文杰、付仁江、
Sentenced to 5 years 5 months: 2 people: 刘晓华、霍壮平、
Sentenced to 5 years 4 months: 1 person: 赵国爱、
Sentenced to 5 years 3 months, 2 people: 刘丽丽、佟明宇、
Sentenced to 5 years 2 months, 2 people: 孙锦辉、林景楠、
Sentenced to 5 years, 105 people: 曹永亮、王淑云、胡玉莲、于桂珍、张慧、戴启鸿、王东霞、季国荣、秦亚莉、谢汉柱、刘辉、范志勇、高洪杰、孙萍、刘全旺、吴海波、韩立萍、韩淑云、张轶博、李昆才、何红彦、吕蔡利、陈翠珠、于艳华、姜春梅、李文明、谢桂芳、徐颜华、陈萍、蔡葆菊、陈军、李钧、王春晓、王丽娟、刘嘉、祝方霞、郭玉兰、龚小兰、许建超、张萍（Lanzhou）、王瑞娟、杨适怡、闫善卫、窦长营、姜艳萍、南振欣、常海花、张超、李咏梅、刘洪运、李红梅、雷秀香、黄雪琴、路刚、姜永芹、苏桂英、金新春、张翠芳、李晓岩、王洪梅、朱素贞、杨泽伟、范文芳、孙健、田玉杰、谢育军、廖志军、董道群、王桂令、徐德明、孙景娜、袁景秀、林杨鹏、谢庆财、万长春、王奎兰、李明霞、孙爽、赵桂萍、赵飞、李振娜、徐卫东、李守兰、杨映鹏、傅雪冰、苗建国、王剑英、姚佳秀、李瑞花、钟芳琼、付鸿、李美虹、李忠元、张艳霞、曹根深、王晓群、马怀珍、韩震昆、田玉华、柴秀芳、申金祥、贾艳凤、谢阳、刘海燕、
Sentenced to 4 years 10 months, 1 person: 冯俊英、
Sentenced to 4 years 9 months, 2 people: 孙晓岚、盛桂兰、
Sentenced to 4 years 8 months, 4 people: 于春丽、黄之锋、尹兆坚、安静涛、
Sentenced to 4 years 6 months, 72 people: 陆辉煌、公丕荣、孙玉霞、姚小艳、钟蓉、刘俊华（Jiujiang）、罗云、仝瑞卿、王洪武、王继武、苏慧丽、林永霞、孙庆菊、孙显亭、季孝龙、薛桂云、史可钦、裴文海、刘玉红、刘星、何晓华、靳淑英、邹飞宇、刘丽影、蒋建忠、徐彩利、赵焕珍、陈昌兰、高科、李静、葛丽娟、郝玉红、张玉锦、赵秀丽、蒋朝林、吴道芬、王慧琳、吕庆、何斌、谭兵林、周玉祯、黄立成、聂晶、陈秀莲、谢国芬、张忠顺、丛伟、张瑞凤、高颖、张慧强、周丽娜、王宝茹、李彩琼、王进仙、刘翠仙、武际强、徐以忠、孔现臻、刘玉荣、尹登珍、杨福军、孙承浩、王英、陶永红、王玉、尹洪伟、周松林、席照军、杨奎、张文鹏、栾庆玲、田仙言、李春华、
Sentenced to 4 years 4 months, 1 person: 王国辉、
Sentenced to 4 years 3 months, 2 people: 曹中荣、吕素民、
Sentenced to 4 years 2 months, 3 people: 王鹰、张瑞童、那子波、
Sentenced to 4 years, 187 people: 卢永良、李林、张小娜、李麦英、李志芬、王秀芳、张彦芹、李仕海、杜春香、柳德玉、赵梅、唐礼荣、林春子、焦晓华、丛兰英、朱宗兰、焦桂春、郭彩华、景凤云、孙文稳、郑允美、杨明珍、王英、甄士杰、马长青、王林、戎秀珍、缪秀琼、栾德武、杨会勇、妙忠军、周景成、马江、王彩云、胡锦凤、陈玉英、艾明霞、张玉堂、王秀英、陈秀玲、李金忠、李树林、钟列娜、郭莉、董秀荣、贾小玉、王春玲、李锦秋、巫德蓉、史晓春、王连荣、刘进波、朱模成、刘爱华、亓英俊、赖东萍、潘刚、李延民、王敏（professor）、陆金华、袁爱荣、刘桂荣、古春英、李向红、黄惠君、王周琳、余发全、李彬阳、程明娟、马淑华、韩振林、高淑贞、张丙亮、时应吉、李桂芳、韩春龙、张晓东、徐亚梅、张美菊、张君、田丽丽、张继秋、盛丽、徐彩虹、郭伶、刘玉琴、樊瑞海、洪秀艳、聂景霞、赵红梅、赵军、黄濡红、胡辉、田丽平、李利珍、杨秀花、黄邵溥、王建、冯勇军、毛善春、罗国龙、冯贵春、李秀玲、朱玉军、王莉、何鹏飞、袁琼秀、彭海明、吴芳名、李文华、穆华、杨淑珍、张晓华、田志斌、张友光、张思锋、苗雅文、杨淑琴、李文、高晶、王红霞、王云良、欧雪辉、何新芳、苏泽生、李振金、王凡、贾素芹、祝令点、郭金仙、郭春芳、王乖彦、刘荣品、黄佑、张金籽、王威、刘聪、张凤莲、张曙光、孙德国、王淑敏、李财华、李德成、张展、彭祖银、张越、梁云、梁少琳、李国媛、赵春红、张芝榕、刘金果、郜孟花、李振英、国月霞、刘兆宏、李清、姜云天、蒋佳彤、李源佑、陈国兰、王淑华（Liaoning）、徐增臣、降央列谢、杜淑惠、李冬枝、况德英、李艳平、宋云、李德荣、吴世宇、关连斌、丁中福、管晓燕、刘宜君、冯云娟、王露华、涂金灿、龚永成、姚玉芬、姜莲花、王海燕、孙福梅、孟宪强、狄建超、
Sentenced to 3 years 10 months, 6 people: 关智勇、王立梅、李丽、于春艳、蒲元胜、陈继环、
Sentenced to 3 years 9 months, 11 people: 舒运兰、李贤芝、周红燕、孙彩艳、徐琳、石翠英、漆玲、尹红、栾艳萍、崔秀菊、朱育池、
Sentenced to 3 years 8 months, 3 people: 张述凤、陈德光、张瑞芳、
Sentenced to 3 years 7 months, 1 person: 于素华、
Sentenced to 3 years and 6 months, 120 people: Sun Yongyao, Liang Yaomin, Liu Yitao, Zhan Xinyuan, Gao Peifa, Gao Wenlong, Li Shuluan, Pan Zizheng, Yang Xiaoguang, Sha Shuyan, Zhang Xiuying, Zou Huaxiang, Pan Yanjun, Fan Jinqing, Li Jian, Zhang Ruiping, Ma Zhiru, Yuan Jinming, Wei Chunrong, Xiao Hua, Zhao Changyan, Wang Yanming, Liu Junmao, Qiu Denong, Chen Xueyan, Wu Kongda, Wang Zhong, Yong Xian, Ma Yanhua, Xiao Kun, Liu Jingchun, Li Xueyi, Zhao Guokun, Jiang Zhihui, Zhang Zhan'an, Liu Zhiming, Niu Yan, Zhou Hongliang, Xia Mingjin, Luo Changyong, Li Fen, Yang Xingli, Zhu Tianfu, Duan Qiongying, Li Tao, Yuan Junhua, Duan Zaiying, Lin Minghua, Li Jinghua, Zhang Bing, Li Hongtao, Wu Xuezhang, Zhu Lanhui, Liu Chunxia, Wei Shuyan, Liu Xu, Zhang Chuanwen, Zhao Ying, Zhang Zhong, Li Mengjun, Liu Chunhua, Chen Pinlin, Zheng Guixiang, Kang Yongcui, Zhu Huiluan, Qin Zhengfang, Zang Liyuan, Yin Qiuyang, Zhang Ai Quan, Zhang Qiping, Liu Yufen, Su Yanxia, Gao Zhenxiu, Gu Li, Zhao Lanying, Shang Xiufang, Meng Qingsu, Zhou Xulin, Luo Jing, Zhang Jinling, Yu Shuhui, Zhang Ximei, Du Jianxin, Fu Jian, Hu Xiuli, Lan Qingzhong, Hou Yuchun, Xia Ruiying, Han Xiaolian, Yang Lanying, Bian Xiao'e, Zhou Lili, Chen Fanghua, Bi Jinmei, Tong Jing, Xiao Shujun, Wang Zebin, Yuan Yiqun, Wang Junping, Mei Guangqin, Mei Guangli, Hao Shuping, Song Xuechun, Liu Xianju, Yao Zhou, Wang Xiulian, Cheng Xiaofeng, Zou Wei, Fang Caixia, Ren Chunlian, An Shunlian, Zhai Shanyong, Li Shengxing, Xia Yilin, Liu Ruping, Chen Jinxiu, Wang Haiyuan.
Sentenced to 3 years and 5 months, 1 person: Zuo Xiuyun.
Sentenced to 3 years and 4 months, 12 people: Tan Dezhi, Wang Wenjie, Sui Lixian, Qin Xiujuan, Zhao Xiaohong, Du Fengjuan, Wang Juxiang, Liu Guifang, Han Jinhua, Liu Erni, Zhang Lihua, Fu Jingchun.
Sentenced to 3 years and 3 months, 13 people: Huang Chunling, Huang Hua, Meng Lili, Wang Zexuan, Li Chunfeng, Wang Guiying, Xia Hongmin, Liu Yongying, Xu Wanxiang, Wang Xingmei, Feng Suxia, Guo Hongying, Liu Runmiao.
Sentenced to 3 years and 2 months, 9 people: Zhang Shuhua, Wang Xiuzhi, Jing Guihua, Li Fenyu, Chen Dongmei, Li Xiuqin, Wang Hongyu, Tian Xiumei, Cheng Yurong.
Sentenced to 3 years, 120 people: Wang Xiufang, Chen Anjun, Chen Qiuju, Cheng Laihua, Wang Zhou Lizhi, Zhong Qilan, Wang Yuxiang, Hu Shuiying, Wang Xiulian, Sun Qin, Jie Caiyun, Zhao Dexiu, Sun Xiuzhen, Li Chuanrong, Wen Yongshu, Li Li, Liu Min, Zhao Baoli, Sang Dan, Zhang Maoxia, Wang Yonghua, Zhang Shufen, Liang Shufa, Qin Shuhai, Zhou Chunling, Shi Tingfu, Qiang Xiaoxia, Zheng Rongzhen, Chen Jianping, Liu Guilan, Liu Shuhua, Zhao Lijun, Xiao Yongkang, Li Xiaomei, Chen Xuefen, Wang Xiaojing, Zhang Chengyan, Zhang Xu, Jin Baocun, Yang Shuyu, Wang Cuiling, Feng Zhijie, Zhao Wei, He Chen, Ma Lingxian, Qu Xiaofei, Luo Xizhen, Zhao Yanhua, Jiang Changxian, Lü Shuzhen, Jiang Ruihua, Zhao Huijun, Zhu Deyan, Yu Ping, Yu Liqiu, Li Yanhe (pen name Fucha), Yaxia'er Xiaohalati, Liu Furui, Yan Yanfang, Wei Shaomin, Xia Honglan, Zhang Wanbo, Geng Lijuan, Wu Yuxun, Jin Xiaofeng, Zhi Zhanmin, Zhang Jian, Zheng Xiuqin, He Hongjun, Fu Wenhui, Lü Sanxiu, Guan Xueheng, Liu Xiaoping, Zheng Cuilan, Ma Ling, Li Huanzhen, Yang Huifang, Yang Xiuhua, Mao Yanping, Wang Juying, Zheng Shuli, Li Yeliang, Huang Xiuying, Zhao Guilian, Wang Xiuyu, Liu Shurong, Zhu Yun, Yuan Hongying, Xing Wangli, Ji Huiying, Hu Bibo, Xiong Fenglian, Wu Shaochuan, Yu Mei, Guo Xingmei, Yu Yongli, Cheng Guijun, Liu Zongzhen, Zheng Hongling, Yu Xiuqiong, Zhao Junfang, Wei Jiufu, Wang Shuhua (Heilongjiang), Du Xinqin, Wang Xiaohong, Gombo Tsering, Yang Biqiong, Min Liangchen, Liu Zhu, Dou Lina, Zhang Jine, Zan Aizong, Tang Sulan, Li Bing, Xiong Suxiang, Zhang Chenglan, Lü Tonggang.
Sentenced to 2 years and 10 months, 5 people: Hao Liping, Yang Jie, Wang Yuping, Guo Jia, Wan Wu.
Sentenced to 2 years and 9 months, 1 person: Zhao Yajing.
Sentenced to 2 years and 8 months, 2 people: Pan Shuxian, Zhang Rong.
Sentenced to 2 years and 6 months, 30 people: Chen Xiaobin, Cai Linhua, Sun Xiaoming, Liu Benzhi, Shen Yuguo, Wang Lei, Li Peng, Zhang Shujie, Zhao Honge, Zhao Shuzhi, Tang Xingxiu, Zou Bin, Chen Mingyu, Long Kehai, Jiang Weidong, Sun Chunhua, Xue Shaoqiang, Xu Shuyao, Yu Shenghua, Zhang Lifang, Guo Haicheng, Zhao Caixia, Yang Shunmin, Xu Yue, Liu Qingling, Cai Xi, Liu Fanqin, Li Yufang, Song Ruixiang, Wu Shulan.
Sentenced to 2 years and 5 months, 1 person: Wang Xiuqin.
Sentenced to 2 years and 4 months, 2 people: Wang Xiaocui, Sheng Fengling.
Sentenced to 2 years and 3 months, 3 people: Yang Lijun, Lin Zhongying, She Xingmin.
Sentenced to 2 years and 2 months, 2 people: Zhan Youchao, Nie Zhongyong.
Sentenced to 2 years, 35 people: Sun Xuebing, Yue Chunguang, Xu Jian, Yang Fujing, Min Xiangxian, Yan Zhiqiu, Zhang Shuxia, Luo Suya, Yao Zuming, Zhang Juying, Yang Xuezhen, Xu Yunyan, Wang Yulan, Zhu Yongzhen, Wang Shuxiang, Wang Lanying, Liu Lanchun, Zhao Weidong, Zhou Guihua, Li Qingsheng, Zhang Wenping, Han Yanwen, Chu Qingzhen, Li Yujuan, Hui Xiaoli, Zhao Ziqiang, Jia Guanglin, Wang Fenghua, He Wenxia, Meng Xiangzhi, Wang Guirong, Liu Shouyu, Xu Zongping, Zhang Zhenyi, Zhang Hongjie.
Sentenced to less than 2 years, 39 people: Zou Xingtong, Li Zhuoren, Chen Haoheng, Wen Dehuai, Zhang Fengling, Yang Yunjie, Yang Yuping, Hua Xiuzhen, Li Zhengxun, Lin Suzhen, Li Kunfang, Wang Junheng, Li Guiqin, Fu Yunping, Zhong Tingju, Miao Guijun, He Bingying, Wang Tianyin, Meng Xianfang, Wu Yanna, Cui Yili, Zhang Qiuju, Li Zhuoqing, Li Yuqiong, Xu Aiqin, Wang Jinfeng, Zhang Shuxiang, Zhang Yuemei, Guo Zhimin, Yang Zhihua, Song Fuyuan, Han Wei, Zhu Guangjun, Wu Yongqiong, Bai Yanbin, Xin Kui, Wu Qiang, Huang Dagui, Pang Zhihua.
Sentence unknown, 25 people: Tashi Dundup (Tibetan), Tashi Jie (Tibetan), Xiang Fengxuan, Su Dongliang, Nazar Yeljiang (Kazakh), Khanatibek Saburbek (Kazakh), Arheng Bazarbeyek (Kazakh), Wumubieti Kasimu (Kazakh), Haylatibek Muhetarhan (Kazakh), Shabudan Shayihe (Kazakh), Yerkembek Daleli (Kazakh), Kenjibek Daleli (Kazakh), Mawuti Mosierhan (Kazakh), Wang Yuchao, Zang Jinda, Ma Haipeng, Gao Bing, Fan Shenghan, Nurmohati Yasin (Uyghur), Chang Zheng, Dong Yanmei, Xiang Jinfeng, Xu Fengyu, Fu Jinfeng, Lü Hua.
(4) Detained but not yet tried, 264 people in total (distributed by region as follows):
1, Beijing (Tianjin), 15 people: Zhang Wenhe, Qin Sifeng, Li Chaoran, Xin Shang, Wu Yanan, Qin Xiaopo, Gao Guojie, Zhou Guoqiang, Gao Shen, Liu Jialing, Li Xuehui, Guo Yiwei, Zhai Liujun, Yang Huiqin, Ge Zhihui, Du Bin.
2, Guangdong, 11 people: Liang Ziliang, Li Yinxiu, Yu Juncong, Mi Jiuping, Liu Penghua, Li Zhan, Fu Changguo, Wen Cheng, Zhu Yubiao, Wu Meifen, Li Ronghao, Yan Zhihong.
3, Zhejiang, 6 people: Chen Faqing, Huang Yizi, Li Yongfeng, Shao Zhumin, Ma Xianshi, Huang Linting.
4, Hubei, 18 people: Xiang Debin, Wang Xinquan, Li Ke, Hao Mingjing, Wu Yuxi, Jin Hanyan, Jin Hanqin, Chen Baiqing, Liu Jiacai, Xiang Zuohua, Bai Jianqiang, Li Jiaqing, Pan Xiangrong, Huang Xingzhi, Chen Yueli, Song Yude, Yang Zhijin, Yin Xuan.
5, Sichuan, 18 people: Manga (Tibetan), Jiayang Duoji (Tibetan), Qiangba Gele (Tibetan), Jiayang Luozhui (Tibetan), Gongque Zhuoma (Tibetan), Tudan (Tibetan), Yu Fenglian, Feng Yongjun, Jin Li, Bai Caiming, Tu Qiang, Cao Kexiong, Xu Xinrui, Li Yingqiang, Dai Zhichao, Ye Fenghua, Jia Xuewei, Dong Yanmei.
6, Shanghai, 8 people: Lü Guomei, Li Yi, Xu Wei, Li Ping, Chen Pinlin, Mao Hengfeng, Hua Xiuzhen, Sun Hongqin.
7, Jilin, 1 person: Wang Haoda.
8, Henan, 16 people: Zhao Wenjing, Huang Jinjú, Lü Yuexia, Guo Chunguai, Zhang Di, Zhang Xiaoping, He Fangmei, Liu Xingguo, Zhang Weizhu, Chen Lijun, Jia Pin, Li Qianwei, Jia Qin, Zhang Xiaoyu, Chang Weiyun, Hu Weiming, Sun Zhijun, Hu Yang.
9, Shandong, 8 people: Jia Guoxi, Zhang Wenbin, Feng Xiaoyan, Jiang Wenzhong, Li Yanxiang, Wang Lizhen, Chen Xueyuan, Liu Jie.
10, Chongqing, 5 people: Deng Guangying, Tan Changrong, Zhang Tingfu, Li Xuezhi, He Chaozheng.
11, Fujian, 6 people: Chen Tianmao, Liu Jianxin, He GuanJiao, Yu Aiming, Mao Huibin, Lin Aiqin.
12, Jiangsu, 13 people: Liu Deming, Feng Xiaomei, Tao Bo, Lu Jianrong, Ma Yufeng, Wang Ganlin, Tao Hong, Yang Zhixiang, Chen Suying, Zhu Peijuan, Zhang Yuebing, Li Xufang, Su Li.
13, Inner Mongolia, 2 people: Zhang Zhijiang, Lamuzhabu (Mongolian).
14, Hunan, 11 people: Duan Shouzhen, Ou Daoqi, Zhou Zaiqiang, Dong Yaoqiong, Guo Jieren, Zhang Chunqiu, Fang Yirong, Wu Qingchun, Li Yuanfeng, Yin Jiangen, Zhang Yadi.
15, Anhui, 16 people: Chen Sanling, Hong Guilian, Wang Minghai, Wan Hongxia, Han Yanlei, Xie Zhifeng, Liu Jian, Luo Qigang, Zhu Yuzhen, Liu Taohua, Fang Hengcai, Chang Shun, Ma Tao, Zhao Hongliang, Ma Shutao.
16, Heilongjiang, 4 people: Zhang Lijun, Liu Jie, Hao Shue, Zhang Sen.
17, Hebei, 8 people: Wang Junping, Zhang Mengying, Cui Tai, Pang Jian, Zhang Aimin, Chi Huitian, Chen He, Zhang Qiyuan.
18, Gansu, 2 people: Zhang Pancheng, Jing Shuren.
19, Tibet, 7 people: Sonam Tsipa (Tibetan), Gelsang Medo (Tibetan), Gasong (Tibetan), Ren Xiaoyun, Zhang Wei, Yao Xilin, Darjie (Tibetan).
20, Qinghai, 8 people: Lu Gongque Jiacuo (Tibetan), Sangzhu (Tibetan), Rongxi (Tibetan), Lazhen (Tibetan), Qusang Jiacuo (Tibetan), Gendun Lunzhu (Tibetan), Sun Qing, Doje Danren.
21, Guangxi, 20 people: Qin Weijin, Qin Lü. “109 Zion Church case”: Jin Mingri, Wang Lin, Liu Jiang, Sun Cong, Gao Yingjia, Yin Huibin, Liu Bingbin, Wen Chenglin (formerly named Lin Shubin), Wang Zhong. The thirteen detained female believers include: Wang Cong, Misha (formerly named Wei Yunfei), Ming Li (formerly named Zhu Mingli), Wu Qiuyu, Li Shengjuan, Hu Yanzi, Zhan Ge, An Mei, Meizi.
22, Shaanxi, 10 people: Gao Zhisheng, Fei Xiaosheng, Wu Yongqiang, Gao Quanfu, Tang Bingyi, Pang Yu, Lian Changnian, Lian Xuliang, Fu Juan, Bai Zhaodong.
23, Xinjiang, 12 people: Ning Huirong, Yelmek Musilin, Biyilihan Sahadati and her son, Tuohertahan Tuoliewuhan, Xinjie'ensihan Bagdá, Hamulati Wufu'er, Halisibek Baban, Kadierding Tudahong, Keyoumu Muhamode, Atikaimu Ruz, Milafu Muhamaiti (Uyghur).
24, Liaoning, 15 people: Zhang Naijun, Zhang Xuechun, Yang Licai, Wang Zhan, Liu Li, Lei Fengchun, Zhu Guiqin, Pang Guanghui, Li Xiaodong, Mingdao (Pastor Qu Hongbo), Wang Xiangchao, Shao Huaxuan, Chen Jian, Liu Xueyun, Fu Youling.
25, Shanxi, 3 people: Zhang Chunlei, Qu Hong, Ma Jie.
26, Jiangxi, 2 people: Zhou Caifan, Shi Yong.
27, Hong Kong, 3 people: Li Zhihong, Zeng Yuxuan, Wang Anran.
28, Ningxia, 1 person: Wang Jie.
29, Macao, 1 person: Ou Jinxin.
30, Yunnan, 5 people: Zhu Zhengwu, Piao Jinshun, Yu Shaolin, Li Qin, Luo Ping.
31, Guizhou, 6 people: Wei Yongqiang, He Jinbao, Quan Xiaolong, Long Jian, Cheng Yongbing, Zhou Guixia.
VII. Index of the 1,661 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience detained in mainland China in this issue
To make it easier for people to search the lists of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience detained in mainland China compiled by this site, we publish the Index of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience Detained in Mainland China together with each issue of the Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience Detained in Mainland China. This index lists the people counted in this issue's report in alphabetical order by the pinyin of their names (A, B, C, D, E, F.....X, Y, Z). Those conducting searches can look up a person's name using the first letter of the name's pinyin; the person's profile can be found in the report.
If you learn of the situation of any political prisoner or prisoner of conscience who is not on the list, please inform us at any time. Contact email: wqw2011@gmail.com
The index is as follows
A.
Ababaikeli Abudurexiti,
Abudurezhak Shayimu (Uyghur), Abudurezhak Xia Muxiding (Uyghur),
Abudukader Jialaliding, Abdureweli Mukaiyite,
Ablajan Awut Ayup (Ablajan Awut Ayup)
Abulimit Hoshur Halis,
Arheng Bazarbeyek (Kazakh), Arslan Abdula,
Alifu Balati Aierke,
Asiha Azitibek (Kazakh), Asimuguli Maimaiti Yiming,
Atikaimu Ruz,
Awulbek Nuerjiahepu (Kazakh)
Aizhaoyu, Aierken Tuerxun (Uyghur), Aierken Taweikuli (Uyghur), Aihemaiti Maitini, Aihemaitijiang Juma,
Aiyazi (Uyghur), Aijizi Abdula, Aishanjiang Kari (Uyghur), Aimingxia,
Okan (Kazakh),
An Jingtao, An Mei, An Shunlian,
B.
Badan Yixi, Bayimulati Naruzibek (Kazakh), Bahetiguli Wulibayi (Kazakh), Bajila Wulibayi (Kazakh),
Bai Hongmin, Bai Hongyou, Bai Jianqiang, Baima Yixi (Tibetan), Bai Yanbin, Bai Zhaodong,
Bi Jinmei, Bian Xiao'e,
Bao Guohua, Bao Wanming,
Bierzhati Bolatehan (Kazakh), Bierekehan Duolanhan (Kazakh), Biyilihan Sahadati and her son (Kazakh),
Buli Sibek Yermaybe (Kazakh), Buyuxin, Bu Jinxiang,
C.
Cai Baoju, Cai Linhua, Cai Xi, Cai Xiuying, Cai Yuying, Cai Zhihui,
Cao Ailan, Cao Genshen, Cao Kexiong, Cao Ping, Cao Yanfen, Cao Yongliang, Cao Zhongrong, Cao Ke,
Chai Xiufang,
Chang Haihua, Chang Shun, Chang Weiyun, Chang Yuchun, Chang Zheng,
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Cheng Fangwei, Cheng Guijing, Cheng Guijun, Cheng Laihua, Cheng Lianlian, Cheng Mingjuan, Cheng Qiaoyun, Cheng Xiaofeng, Cheng Yongbing,
Cheng Yurong, Cheng Xiaobao,
Chi Huitian, Chu Qingzhen, Chu Xinyu,
Cicheng Jiacai (Tibetan), Cicheng Jiacuo (Tibetan),
Cong Lanying, Cong Wei, Chu Jidong,
Cui Bin, Cui Jun, Cui Tai, Cui Xiuju, Cui Yili,
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Danzeng Qupei (Tibetan),
Deng Guangying, Deng Hongcheng, Deng Wanying, Deng Xiancheng,
Diketan Kai (Tibetan),
Di Jianchao, Di Lianxia,
Ding Hanzhong, Ding Jiaxi, Ding Xiangqin, Ding Zhongfu,
Dong Daoqun, Dong Xiurong, Dong Yanmei, Dong Yanmei (Sichuan), Dong Yaoqiong, Dong Yuyu,
Dou Changying, Dou Lina,
Du Bin, Du Changjiang, Du Chunxiang, Du Fengjuan, Du Jianxin, Du Jingyi, Du Rong, Du Shuhui, Du Xiuyan, Du Xinqin,
Duan Qiongying, Duan Shouzhen, Duan Xiaorong, Duan Zaiying,
Duoji Zhaxi (Tibetan), Doje Danren,
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Zhu Fangxia、Zhu Lingdian、
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Zhuang Dongjie、Zhuang Xiachang、Zhuang Xiankun、Zhuang Youbu、
Zou Bin、Zou Feiyu、Zou Huaxiang、Zou Jiacheng、Zou Wei、Zou Xingtong、
Zuo Xiuyun、
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