Case summary
Zhang Lijun (张立君), also recorded as 张丽君, is a female Falun Gong practitioner from Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang Province, formerly employed by the Shuangyashan Petroleum Company. The documented record covers a 2017 detention and six-month sentence (released November 2017), reported harassment in May 2021, and a current listing as detained without trial in the Heilongjiang group of the Rights Defense Network’s August 2026 monthly report. The available sources are monitoring-organization records; no independent court document has been obtained, and the date and circumstances of the detention recorded in the 2026 report are not in evidence.
Source chronology
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), Database of Prisoners of Conscience in Mainland China, record poc_z_00037 (tenchu.org/pocd/public/pocs/1081, updated 2022-12-12) — detailed 2017 case record: identity (female, Han, Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang; petroleum company employee; Falun Gong practitioner); detention 2017-05-25 for mailing promotional letters to police/procuratorate/court officers; Shuangyashan detention center; arrest approved 2017-06-29; trial 2017-11-14 at Jianshan District Court; sentence six months plus 2,000-yuan fine (charge unknown); release 2017-11-24; status “Released”. Cites a Minghui victim record as other source. Relevance: the only detailed dated case profile; the identity anchor linking the 2017 person to the 2026 roster entry.
- Minghui library victim record, 张丽君(立君) (library.minghui.org/victim/i112083.htm) — family background (lived with and cared for elderly parents-in-law), the 2017 detention/trial/sentence (release given as 2017-11-25), the May 2021 harassment (community workers asking her to sign renunciation statements, refused), and links to related case reports. Relevance: corroborates the 2017 case details and adds the 2021 harassment episode; the page’s related-report links were not individually opened in this pass.
- Rights Defense Network (维权网), Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Custody in Mainland China, Issue 131 (2026-08-31) — Chinese edition (https://www.chinahrc.org/content/43092/) and English edition (chinatruth.net mirror): the detained-without-trial section lists 张立君 / “Zhang Lijun” first of four in the Heilongjiang group (with Liu Jie, Hao Shue, Zhang Sen). No biography is given in this issue. Relevance: the current-status anchor (detained without trial as of 2026-08-31) and the Chinese-character identification.
Source provenance and limitations
- All three sources are rights-monitoring or practitioner-community records, not official procedural documents. Characterizations of the detention (e.g., “unlawful”) are the sources’ statements, not independently verified findings.
- The CHRD database record has not been updated since 2022-12-12 and shows the 2017 release; it does not reflect the detention recorded in the 2026 report. The report gives no re-detention date, location, or procedural details.
- The specific charge in the 2017 case is unknown (the CHRD record lists charge: unknown).
- The related case reports linked from the Minghui library page were not individually opened and verified in this pass.
- No statement by Chinese authorities on this individual case was found.
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