Liu Guifang (刘桂芳) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Lanzhou, Gansu Province. Monitoring records identify her as a retired doctor from the Bali Yao Town Health Center in Lanzhou’s Qilihe District, born in 1965.
According to the CHRD Prisoners of Conscience Database and Minghui, Liu was arrested on May 30, 2023 at Xiaoxihu Park in Lanzhou after speaking with people about Falun Gong. Monitoring reports state that officers detained her, searched her home, and later held her at the Lanzhou No. 1 Detention Center.
The CHRD database and Minghui victim-library record state that Liu was formally indicted in August 2023 and tried by the Chengguan District Court on November 9, 2023. She was sentenced to three years and four months in prison; the available public reporting does not disclose the criminal charge.
Her appeal was reported rejected in June 2024, after which she was transferred to Lanzhou Jiuzhou Women’s Prison, also identified as Gansu Provincial Women’s Prison.
The CHRD database gives September 29, 2026 as the end of the recorded term, while Minghui’s victim library gives September 30, 2026. Because the two sources differ by one day and no release report has been located, no release is asserted here.
Status: listed in custody as of August 31, 2026. Current status after that date is unverified.
Sources: CHRD Prisoners of Conscience Database; Minghui, January 27, 2025; Minghui victim library.