Person profile: Zhang Shuxiang (张淑香) — Person Profile
The media record of Zhang Shuxiang (张淑香)‘s case consists of: a Prisoners-of-Conscience database record maintained by Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD); a 2016 Minghui.org case article documenting her earlier persecution and her 2015 criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin; and her inclusion in the Rights Defense Network’s (维权网) Issue 131 monthly political-prisoners roster. No court judgment, state-media account, or international-media reporting on the current case has been found.
Source provenance
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database (tenchu.org/pocd/public): a rights-monitoring database named by the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 report as its individual-record source. The 张淑香 record was entered April 13, 2026 and reports the 2024 arrest, 2025 trial and sentencing, and 2026 prison transfer with one source link.
- Minghui.org: a Falun Gong-community news outlet. Its October 2016 article — published a decade before the current sentence — anchors the same woman by name, age (67 in 2016, i.e., born ~1949), locality (Zhangxing Township, Zhaoyuan), and documented persecution history, and publishes her 2015 complaint against Jiang Zemin.
- 维权网 (Rights Defense Network): an independent Chinese-language media outlet; Issue 131 (August 31, 2026) lists 张淑香 / “Zhang Shuxiang” in its “sentenced to 2 years or less” group.
Chronological media record
- October 14, 2016 — Minghui.org: “Repeatedly cruelly tortured — Zhaoyuan City’s Zhang Shuxiang sues Jiang Zemin.” Reports: 67-year-old Zhang Shuxiang of Zhangxing Township, Zhaoyuan; fifteen arrests and eight detentions since 1999; three labor-camp attempts (rejected on health grounds); a four-year prison sentence in the mid-2000s served in part at Jinan Women’s Prison; her May 28, 2015 criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin citing multiple criminal-code articles. Read the article
- April 13, 2026 — CHRD PoC database: record entered for 张淑香 (“Zhang Shuxiang”): born 1949, Zhaoyuan City; arrested August 14, 2024 at a market by the Linglong branch; residential surveillance after the detention center refused admission on health grounds; tried December 17, 2025 by the Zhaoyuan City Court; sentenced late December 2025 to 1 year plus a 6,000-yuan fine, charge unknown; taken to Yantai detention center mid-January 2026, then transferred to the Shandong Provincial Women’s Prison; term to 2027.1. Database search page
- August 31, 2026 — 维权网 Issue 131: lists 张淑香 / “Zhang Shuxiang” in the two-years-or-less group — the latest dated record found. Read the report
Contradiction and caveats
- Charge: unknown (罪名不详) per CHRD. No charge may be stated.
- Prior-persecution details (arrest counts, complaint text): from Minghui.org only; presented as reported by that outlet.
- Status inference: “currently imprisoned” rests on the August 31, 2026 roster listing plus a January 2027 term end — no post-August-2026 confirmation exists. Status claims must carry the August 31, 2026 date.
- 2016 article vs. current case: the 2016 article documents earlier persecution and the 2015 complaint; it is used for identity anchoring, not for the current sentence. Do not present it as coverage of the 2025 sentence.