Person profile: Zhang Qiuju (张秋菊) — Political Prisoner Profile
This archive preserves the principal published sources documenting the case of Zhang Qiuju (张秋菊), a Xinyang, Henan practitioner of Falun Gong sentenced to one and a half years in early 2026.
Source chronology
- February 7, 2026 — Minghui, “河南信阳市张秋菊又遭诬判一年半”. The primary case record for this profile — names Zhang Qiuju (张秋菊), gives her age (74) and Xinyang residence, reports her late-June 2025 arrest by Shihe district domestic-security police, her detention at the Xinyang No. 1 Detention Center, and the 1.5-year sentence by the Huangchuan County court with appeal filed. Also supplies the four prior sentences (2000, 2009, 2015, 2023). Practitioner media; legal characterizations in the article are the outlet’s attributions. Read the article
- March 17, 2026 — CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database record: 张秋菊 / “Zhang Qiuju”. Female, born 1952, Xinyang, Henan; last taken June 2025; charge unknown; sentence 1 year 6 months; term to December 2026. Independent second-source corroboration on every available anchor. Database search page
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly political-prisoner report. Lists 张秋菊 / Zhang Qiuju in the “sentenced to up to two years” band; corroborates that she was reported in custody as of August 31, 2026. List-only entry, no individual case detail. Read the report
Provenance and gaps
- No court judgment, official procedural record, or government statement about Zhang Qiuju’s 2026 sentence has been located.
- The Minghui report names domestic-security officers involved in the 2025 arrest; those names are preserved in the research archive but personal contact details from the source article are not reproduced here.
- Charge: not reported in any source. Post-sentencing detention facility: not reported. Appeal outcome: not reported.
- No consular or diplomatic attention specific to this case was found. No PRC state-media or official-source mention was found.
- No conflicting evidence was found. The only near-name in the CHRD database is 陈秋菊 (Chen Qiuju, born 1969) — a different person.
See also: the person profile for Zhang Qiuju (张秋菊)