Yuan Qiongxiu / 袁琼秀
Yuan Qiongxiu is a Falun Gong practitioner from Suining City, Sichuan Province, who has been detained repeatedly since 2002 and was sentenced to four years in prison in 2025. She is currently held at the Chengdu Women’s Prison.
Key facts
- Born in November 1953; female; a resident of Chuanshan District, Suining, Sichuan; a retired bank employee.
- In September 2002 she was detained for about three months after posting informational materials.
- On June 6, 2018, she was seized at her home by police and domestic-security officers, who also took her property. On April 10, 2019, the Chuanshan District Court tried her case and sentenced her to two years and six months in prison. On April 23, 2019, she was transferred to the Chengdu Women’s Prison (Longquanyi).
- On April 18, 2024, she was taken away again and held at the Suining detention center. She was subsequently sentenced to four years in prison and transferred to the Chengdu Women’s Prison, where she is serving that term through April 17, 2028.
- The formal charge against her is not specified in the available sources.
Sources: Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database record for Yuan Qiongxiu (romanized there as “Yuan Qiongli”); Minghui victim file i120690 (updated March 7, 2025). Identity, sentences, detention sites, and the 2028 release date are corroborated across both sources; procedural details are reported by Minghui.
A media profile and archive documenting the coverage of her case is published separately: Media Profile & Archive.