Identification method
The roster’s English edition lists “Wei Sanmei” with no Chinese characters. The Chinese edition of the same report was read directly: its 判刑5年6个月34人 (sentenced to 5 years and 6 months, 34 people) list reads “…温粉华、魏三梅、杨传厚、吴炎哆…”, while the English edition lists “…Wen Fenhua, Wei Sanmei, Yang Chuanhou, Wu Yanduo…” — 34 names aligning position-for-position, with 魏三梅 occupying the “Wei Sanmei” position (twenty-third). The report’s own name index independently places 魏三梅 in the W sequence — 魏久福、魏三梅、魏少敏 — matching the English index’s “Wei Jiufu, Wei Sanmei, Wei Shaomin” adjacency. This positional identification, from the report’s own two editions, is the sole basis for the Chinese characters — no independent biographical source confirms them.
Source chronology
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Issue 131 monthly report (Chinese and English editions). The report’s sentence-statistics table lists a 34-person group sentenced to 5 years and 6 months; the Chinese edition’s twenty-third name is 魏三梅, positionally matching “Wei Sanmei” in the English edition. The report classifies its entries as political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in custody (dated source claim). No individual case detail is given for this entry.
- September 2026 (research). Bounded searches for 魏三梅 across rights-defense reporting, news archives, and prisoner databases returned no indexed reporting on this person — results were Taiwan court documents and unrelated content.
Media records
No news, advocacy, or documentary media records on this person were located beyond the Issue 131 roster listing itself. The single source is the roster; there are no media items to chronicle. This section exists so the archive is honest about that: one source, read directly, with nothing else found.
Source grading
- Issue 131 Chinese + English editions (Rights Defense Network / 维权网, August 31, 2026): primary source — the only source establishing this person’s name, Chinese characters, and 5y6m sentence record. Treat its roster classification as a dated source claim, not an independently verified finding.
Disambiguation
Wei Jiufu (魏久福), Wei Shaomin (魏少敏), Wei Chunrong (魏春荣), and Wei Bin (魏彬) appear in the same Issue 131 report as separate entries and are not this person. Shao Mingliang (邵明亮) sits in the same 5y6m band at position 20 and is a separate person. Do not conflate on shared surname, sentence-band co-listing, or index adjacency.
See the full Person profile: Wei Sanmei (魏三梅).