Person profile: 陈素英 (Chen Suying)
陈素英 (Chen Suying) — Media Archive
This archive collects the verified media and documentation record for 陈素英 (Chen Suying), a rights-defense petitioner from Liuhe District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, detained with her husband 杨芝祥 (Yang Zhixiang) on September 15, 2023.
Case chronology
- 2006-10-20 — Husband Yang Zhixiang beaten and seriously injured at a Nanjing repair shop; police injury assessment downgraded from light injury to minor injury on reassessment; the couple’s court petitions were unsuccessful at every level. (CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database; 维权网)
- 2023-09-15 — At the State Bureau for Letters and Calls in Beijing, police (badge 0204901) handcuffed Chen and Yang and notified the local interception team; the couple were escorted back to Nanjing and criminally detained. (维权网; CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database)
- 2023-09-18 — 维权网 reports the couple missing for more than three days after being intercepted in Beijing. (维权网)
- 2023-11-13 — CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database record entered: 陈素英, female, Jiangsu Nanjing Liuhe petitioner; detained 2023-09-15; detention location unknown. (CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database)
Source records
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience Database. Record for 陈素英 (“Chen Suying”), female, rights-defense petitioner of Liuhe District, Nanjing, Jiangsu; last seized 2023-09-15; charge unknown; detention location unknown; record entered 2023-11-13. Full case narrative covering the 2006 injury, the injury-assessment dispute, and the 2023 interception. Verification: VERIFIED (record read in full via direct database query, 2026-10-09).
- 维权网 (Rights Defense Network), September 18, 2023 — “南京六合区冤民杨芝祥、陈素英夫妇在北京遭截访超过三天仍下落不明”. Reports the September 15 interception at the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, the handcuffing by police badge 0204901, and the couple’s transfer to Nanjing. Verification: VERIFIED (full article read, 2026-10-09).
Evidentiary limits
No formal charge, trial, or sentence is recorded — the 2023 detention appears as criminal detention (刑事拘留), not a conviction. No update after the 2023-11-13 database entry exists; her current status cannot be stated. No prisoner-message form is attached here: an unknown status is not the same as verified current imprisonment.
Person profile: 陈素英 (Chen Suying)