Person profile: Wang Lizhen (王丽珍) — Political Prisoner Profile
This archive collects media and documentation on the case of Wang Lizhen (王丽珍), a Shandong rights petitioner repeatedly detained in connection with her family’s forced-demolition case. Records are presented in chronological order; each entry notes the outlet, date, and what it documents.
2023
- May 6, 2023 — Radio Free Asia: “Shandong rights defender Wang Lizhen criminally detained on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking troubles.” Reports, citing Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, that Wang was detained on the morning of April 29, 2023 by the Zhangdian branch of the Zibo Public Security Bureau on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles,” and held at the Zibo City Detention Center. The report states the detention was linked to her parents’ home-demolition case and her father’s four-year sentence for the same charge.
- May 10, 2023 — Rights Defense Network (official blog): “Case and biography of Wang Lizhen, criminally detained rights defender of Zibo, Shandong.” A detailed case brief: Wang Lizhen, female, born 1978, of Liujia Village, Zhangdian District, Zibo, is a forced-demolition victim who began petitioning after her parents’ home was demolished in September 2016. Documents the 2017 questioning and criminal detention, the January 2021 video appeal and subsequent harassment, and the April 29, 2023 detention at the Zibo City Detention Center.
- May 18, 2023 — Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch (民生观察): “Wang Lizhen released on bail on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking troubles.” Reports that Wang was released on bail pending trial (取保候审) on May 13, 2023, and notes that a detention on the same charge seven years earlier had likewise ended in bail, with the case never formally resolved.
- June 1, 2023 — CHRD Prisoners of Conscience Database: Individual record for 王丽珍 / WANG LI ZHEN: female, born 1978, of Zibo, Shandong; taken away April 29, 2023 on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles”; held at Zibo City Detention Center; released on bail May 13, 2023, per Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch. (Database record; see tenchu.org Prisoners of Conscience search.)
2026
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network: Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Custody in Mainland China, Issue 131. Lists Wang Lizhen (王丽珍) in the “Detained without trial” statistical group for Shandong, classifying the 1,638-name roster as political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in custody as of that date. No biographical detail beyond the roster classification.
Evidentiary notes
- No court judgment, trial record, or official procedural document for Wang Lizhen’s case has been publicly located; the 2023 detention details rest on reporting by Rights Defense Network, Radio Free Asia, and Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch.
- Status conflict: the 2026 roster lists her as in custody (detained without trial); 2023 sources record her release on bail. The roster is newer, and her case shows a documented detention→bail→re-detention cycle, but no public source documents a post-2023 re-detention. These are presented as dated, source-attributed facts; no inference of continuous detention is made.
- Two historical same-name records — a 2000 torture account from Shibu Town, Shandong and a 2005 arrest report from Zhaoqing, Guangdong — have been assessed as different persons and are excluded from this archive.
- No public source confirms Wang Lizhen’s whereabouts after August 31, 2026.
Person profile: Wang Lizhen (王丽珍) — Political Prisoner Profile