Huo Guilan (霍桂兰) is a retired plastics-machinery-factory worker from Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. Minghui reports that she practices Falun Gong and was sentenced in December 2025 to nine years in prison.
Earlier reported detention history
Minghui reports repeated detention beginning in 2000, including forced-labor terms and a five-year prison sentence imposed in 2002. It also reports later detentions in 2012, 2013 and 2020. These earlier accounts remain source-attributed.
2024–2025 case
Minghui reports that on the night of April 11, 2024, police entered Huo’s apartment and detained her as part of a larger Baoji operation. It states that her ankle was badly injured while officers took her downstairs and that she was taken the following day to the Baoji City Second Detention Center. In later court proceedings, Minghui attributed to judge Liu Yan the explanation that an officer had accidentally fallen and knocked Huo down. The differing accounts of how the injury occurred are preserved here without resolving them.
Minghui reports that the Jintai District Procuratorate indicted Huo on October 18, 2024, and that the Jintai District Court heard the case in December 2024 and again in 2025. On December 18, 2025, according to Minghui, Huo was sentenced to nine years in prison and fined 36,000 yuan. The outlet reports that she appealed.
Status and evidence limits
Rights Defense Network Issue 131, dated August 31, 2026, lists Huo Guilan among reported in-custody cases in its nine-year-sentence subgroup. No public court judgment, post-sentencing facility or appeal outcome was located. No sentence end date is inferred.
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