Chu Qingzhen (初庆珍), a Falun Gong practitioner from Laiyang City, Shandong Province, was arrested on October 29, 2024, and is reported to be serving a prison term with a recorded release date in late October 2026. According to Minghui, the Falun Gong reporting site, three officers arrested her at her workplace on the afternoon of October 29, 2024; she was held at the Muyudian Police Station overnight and transferred the next morning to the Fushan District Detention Center in Yantai.
The mainland China prisoners-of-conscience database (tenchu.org) lists 初庆珍 / Chu Qingzhen as in prison, with a recorded release date of October 28, 2026 (record updated January 22, 2026). She appears in the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 monthly report (August 31, 2026) among the reported current-custody political and conscience prisoners.
Her sentence length, the court that tried her, and the precise charges have not been publicly documented, and nothing is asserted about her status beyond the dated reports above.
Sources: Minghui.org, November 2024 persecution-news reports; tenchu.org, Prisoners of Conscience Data — Mainland China, Shandong province list; Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026. See the Media Profile & Archive for source detail and evidentiary limits.
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