Zhang Shujie (张淑杰) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Dandong City, Liaoning Province. Born in 1965, she was detained in 2024 together with fellow practitioner Zhao Hong’e (赵鸿娥).
On May 22, 2024, Zhang and Zhao were seized by officers of the Xicheng Police Station in Dandong and held at the Dandong City Detention Center. Their arrests were approved on June 25, 2024, and on September 20, 2024, the Zhen’an District Procuratorate indicted them to the Zhen’an District Court.
On October 25, 2024, the two women were tried at the Zhen’an District Court. Both made their own not-guilty statements in court, maintaining that they had committed no crime.
On November 29, 2024, Zhang was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison. No charge was specified in the available records. Her reported sentence runs through November 21, 2026, and she was last reported held at the Dandong City Detention Center.
Status note: The most recent verified record (entered January 2025) reports her detained in Dandong with a sentence running through November 21, 2026. Her current custody status has not been independently verified in real time.
Name note
The live WordPress pair for Zhao Shuzhi (肇淑芝) is a different person (different surname and given name) — do not confuse the two.
Sources
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record for 张淑杰 / “Zhang Shujie” (entered January 17, 2025).
- Minghui.org trial report, November 5, 2024.
Media archive: Zhang Shujie (张淑杰) — Media Profile & Archive