Person profile: Wang Xiuzhi (王秀枝)
This archive collects the available reporting on the case of Wang Xiuzhi (王秀枝), a Falun Gong practitioner from Yu County, Hebei, sentenced to three years and two months by a court in Datong, Shanxi.
Case chronology
- August 14, 2023 — home searched, briefly detained. Police officers from Guangling County in Shanxi and Nuanquan Town in Yu County searched Wang Xiuzhi’s home in Xinmengzhuang Village. She was held at the Datong City Second Detention Center and returned home on August 30, 2023.
- June 14, 2024 — detained in Guangling County. Wang traveled from her village in Yu County, Hebei, to Guangling County in Datong, Shanxi, where she was reported to police and detained by Guangling County officers. She was taken to the Datong City Detention Center.
- Late 2024 — sentenced. A court in Datong sentenced Wang to three years and two months in prison; the charge was not stated in the available records. On November 6, 2024, she was transferred to a women’s prison in Shanxi. The reporting sources name the destination facility differently — the Minghui archive names Yuci Prison, while the CHRD database names the Shanxi Provincial Women’s Prison — and the available records do not establish whether the two names describe the same facility.
- Sentence status. Her sentence runs through August 13, 2027.
Source records
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — record for 王秀枝 (Wang Xiuzhi). Records her as female, a Falun Gong practitioner from Xinmengzhuang Village, Nuanquan Town, Yu County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei; detained June 14, 2024 in Guangling County, Datong; sentenced to 3 years 2 months by a Datong court (charge unknown); transferred November 6, 2024 to the Shanxi Provincial Women’s Prison; term through August 13, 2027. Record entered February 11, 2025. Accessed via the database’s public search interface on October 9, 2026. (Chinese Human Rights Defenders is a non-governmental human-rights monitoring organization.)
- Minghui victim archive — 王秀枝 profile (https://library.minghui.org/victim/i140250.htm). Identifies her as Wang Xiuzhi, female, in her sixties, a Falun Gong practitioner from Xinmengzhuang Village, Nuanquan Town, Yu County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei; reports the August 2023 home search and brief detention, the June 14, 2024 detention in Guangling, the three-year-two-month sentence by a Datong court, and the November 6, 2024 transfer to Yuci Prison. Page updated January 19, 2025. (Minghui is a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; its account of events is attributed as such.)
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026. Lists 王秀枝 / Wang Xiuzhi in the “sentenced to 3 years and 2 months” group of political prisoners in current custody. Roster classification only; no individual case biography.
Name caution
Do not merge or associate this case with any 王秀芝 record (different identity string); those are different people.
Evidentiary limitations
- The formal criminal charge is not stated in any located record.
- The exact receiving facility differs between the two reporting sources (see chronology); treated as unresolved, not asserted.
- No court judgment, PRC official record, or state-media report for this case was located.
- The Minghui reports use advocacy language (“wrongful,” “persecution”) that is not independently verifiable; the profile and archive above state only the factual claims with their sources attributed.
Related: profile of Wang Xiuzhi.