Classification: Falun Gong practitioner from Weihai, Shandong; arrested October 2025 with three fellow practitioners; sentenced to three years in prison in June 2026; reported serving the sentence with a term running to October 26, 2028.
Xiao Bo (肖波) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Weihai City, Shandong Province. On October 27, 2025, he was arrested with fellow practitioners Yu Jingtao (于静涛) and Ding Huimin (丁慧敏) at a rented dwelling in the Jing District of Weihai while the three were binding Minghui calendars, according to Falun Gong-affiliated reporting and human-rights case records. Officers from the Weihai Economic Development Zone (Jing District) Public Security Sub-bureau’s domestic security office carried out the arrests and searched the premises; all three were placed under criminal detention.
His case was later consolidated with that of Wang Deshui (王德水), a practitioner arrested on November 27, 2025. The four cases were referred to the Rongcheng City Court, which tried them on April 23, 2026. On June 2, 2026, the court sentenced Xiao Bo to three years in prison, according to the June 26, 2026 Minghui Weihai report cited in the case record. Co-defendants received six years (Yu Jingtao), three and a half years (Wang Deshui), and one year (Ding Huimin). The Chinese Human Rights Defenders Prisoners of Conscience database records his term as ending October 26, 2028.
Status and evidence limits
As of the June 2026 reporting, Xiao Bo was described as serving the three-year sentence. The specific criminal charge is not stated in any reviewed source; no official court judgment or government record for the case was located. The place of incarceration has not been publicly reported, and no release date is inferred beyond the database’s recorded term end. Reporting on this case comes from Falun Gong-affiliated outlets and human-rights monitoring organizations, and is attributed as such.
Identity note: This profile describes 肖波 of Weihai, Shandong, arrested in 2025. He is not the 1989 Tiananmen victim of the same name — a separate person, separated by 36 years.
Related cases: Yu Jingtao (于静涛) · Ding Huimin (丁慧敏) · Wang Deshui (王德水)
Sources: World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong notice (May 1, 2026); Minghui Weihai edition sentencing report (June 26, 2026); Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database, individual record for 肖波 (entered July 21, 2026); Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Issue 131 monthly in-custody report (August 31, 2026).
Media and documentation archive: Media and documentation archive for Xiao Bo (肖波)