Profile: Xie Qingling (谢清玲)
This archive preserves the documented media and organizational record of the case of Xie Qingling (谢清玲), a retired fertilizer-plant worker from Tai’an, Shandong, sentenced to seven years in prison for her Falun Gong practice. Sources are listed with verification notes. Minghui is a practitioner-affiliated outlet; its reports are attributed as such.
Records
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience database entry (record entered January 31, 2022). Records Xie Qingling (XIE QING LING), female, born 1956, of Tai’an; detained November 24, 2020; sentenced to 7 years with a 20,000-yuan fine (reported January 2022); appeal denied by Tai’an Intermediate Court; held at Shandong Provincial Women’s Prison; release November 23, 2027. Charge listed as unknown. [VERIFIED — parsed directly from database CSV] Database search page
- Minghui, “山东泰安市谢清玲等多位法轮功学员被绑架抄家” (November 29, 2020). Reports the November 24, 2020 group detention: Xie Qingling, Gao Fangqiang, Pei Fengqin, Zhang Lixia, and Jia Yuangui were intercepted by police vehicles while returning from Liangzhuang Township; that evening police entered Xie Qingling’s home and detained her husband Li Cunguo; homes were searched and Falun Gong materials seized; detainees were moved to Xintai after the Tai’an detention facilities declined admission over pandemic controls. [VERIFIED — opened and read] Original article
- CHRD PoC record for Gao Fangqiang (高方强). Corroborating co-defendant record: detained the same day (November 24, 2020), sentenced to 5 years; its bio text independently confirms Xie Qingling’s 7-year sentence and 20,000-yuan fine. [VERIFIED — same database export] Database search page
- CHRD PoC record for Li Cunguo (李存国). Corroborating record for Xie Qingling’s husband: notes that his wife Xie Qingling was sentenced to 7 years with a 20,000-yuan fine after a video hearing by the Taishan District Court. [VERIFIED — same database export] Database search page
Source grading and caveats
- Sentencing date is imprecise: reported in January 2022 (“2022年1月得知”), likely a late-2021 verdict by the Taishan District Court; recorded with this caveat.
- Formal charge not publicly documented (CHRD: unknown).
- Minghui’s November 2020 report lists ages (Xie 64) consistent with the PoC birth year 1956 — no conflict.
Profile: Xie Qingling (谢清玲)