Classification: Former middle-school teacher and Falun Gong practitioner from Fujian; sentenced to three years and four months in prison in 2023; reported in custody as of August 2026.
Background
Wang Juxiang (王菊香) was born in 1973 in Wuping County, Fujian, and later lived in Jimei District, Xiamen. She worked as a middle-school teacher and, according to reporting, was well regarded by her students. She began practicing Falun Gong in November 1998. This is her second documented prison sentence connected to her beliefs.
Case chronology
- Late 2000 — After the 1999 crackdown on Falun Gong began, Wang traveled to Beijing carrying her then three-month-old son to appeal on behalf of the practice. She was arrested and taken back to Fujian, where police placed her under her school’s surveillance, according to reporting.
- July 2001 — Wang was detained for writing pro–Falun Gong slogans in public in Wuping County and for discussing Falun Gong with her students. She was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, according to the report — her first documented sentence.
- June 19, 2022 — Around 9 a.m., officers from the Xiamen City and Jimei District national-security police and the Feng’an police station entered Wang’s home, searched it, and seized a laptop, mobile phones, and Falun Gong books. She was taken to the Jimei District police station; because her son, then a middle-school student, had no one to care for him, she was released into residential surveillance the next evening.
- November 4, 2023 — Wang was criminally detained and taken to a detention center. Later that year she was sentenced to three years and four months plus a fine — the charge was not publicly identified. Her sentence term is recorded as running through February 3, 2027.
- July 18, 2024 — Wang was transferred to the Fujian Provincial Women’s Prison.
- August 31, 2026 — The Rights Defense Network’s monthly in-custody report lists Wang Juxiang among mainland China’s currently detained prisoners, in the cohort serving three years and four months.
Current status
Wang Juxiang is verified as currently imprisoned as of the August 31, 2026 custody roster, with her sentence term running through February 3, 2027.
Identity note: A separate prisoner record exists for a different 王菊香 from Baoji, Shaanxi (born 1981; four-year sentence ending December 2022) — a different person, recorded here only to prevent confusion. No merge.
Sources: China Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database, individual record for 王菊香 / Wang Juxiang (entered September 11, 2024); Minghui (English), “51-Year-Old Fujian Woman Given Second Prison Term for Practicing Falun Gong” (August 20, 2024); Minghui, “厦门市王菊香遭非法判刑三年多入冤狱” (August 16, 2024); Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly in-custody report, August 31, 2026. The case narrative comes from Falun Gong–affiliated reporting and a prisoner-monitoring organization; no court record has been located.
Media archive: Media archive for Wang Juxiang (王菊香)