Zhao Lanying (赵兰英) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record behind the Zhao Lanying 赵兰英 profile: the reporting on her 2024 arrest in Harbin, the 2025 trial and three-and-a-half-year sentence, and her earlier targeting across two decades, with provenance and limitations noted. Sources are graded; allegations remain attributed rather than stated as fact.
Minghui.org — “Heilongjiang Retiree Sentenced to 3.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong” (March 21, 2025)
(Opened and read in full: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2025/3/21/225921.html). Reports: arrest at her rented room in Harbin on September 20, 2024; interrogation in which officers showed photos and videos of a woman distributing Falun Gong materials and ordered her to admit she was that woman — she denied it; trial at the Daoli District Court in Harbin on February 20, 2025 with conviction at the end of the hearing and a three-and-a-half-year sentence; earlier history (took up Falun Gong June 1998; Beijing appeal February 2000, 39 days’ detention; one-year labor-camp term later in 2000; three years of forced labor in October 2002, denied camp admission for health reasons; four and a half years in November 2012, served at Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison; fled Mudanjiang home October 2019 after noticing surveillance). Source grade: Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; fullest case account, attributed; strongest factual source for the Person page.
Minghui.org — “Reported in March 2025: 61 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Faith” (April 15, 2025)
(Opened and read in full: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2025/4/15/226248p.html). Monthly sentencing roundup entry: Ms. Zhao Lanying, 3.5 years, sentenced February 20, 2025. Source grade: Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; sentencing-list corroboration.
维权网 — August 2026 monthly report, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026)
维权网《中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告（2026年8月31日）第131期（共1638人）, mirrored in English and Chinese. Lists 赵兰英 / “Zhao Lanying” in the “sentenced to 3 years and 6 months, 126 people” band. The report supplies no biographical detail beyond the sentence and custody status; it is the source for her classification as in custody as of August 2026. Source grade: monitoring organization; single-source roster fact.
Wrong-person record
A 2011 Minghui news item describes a different “Ms. Zhao Lanying” arrested in Weifang City, Shandong Province on March 6, 2011 (Minghui.org, April 6, 2011). That is a different person in a different case and is preserved here only to prevent confusion. Source grade: Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; disambiguation record.
Source conflicts and limitations
The case rests on Minghui.org’s reporting plus the 维权网 roster. No primary court record, official procedural record, international-media account, or independent NGO coverage has been located; no PRC official source was found. The earlier-targeting history comes from a single Falun Gong-affiliated source and has not been independently corroborated. No appeal record and no current prison placement have been found. No contradictory account of this case was found. No consular dimension was established.
Person profile: Zhao Lanying 赵兰英