Zhang Shunxin / 张顺新 — Media Profile & Archive
For the profile of Zhang Shunxin, see Zhang Shunxin / 张顺新.
This archive preserves the documented media and case record for Zhang Shunxin (张顺新), a Falun Gong practitioner from Zepu County, Kashgar, Xinjiang, currently serving a twelve-year prison sentence.
Case chronology (as documented by the case archive)
- 2001–2002: Detained for practicing Falun Gong; sentenced to nine years. Served in Xinjiang No. 5 Prison; accounts describe sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, and punishment for refusing the prison uniform.
- February 2, 2011: Released after completing the nine-year term; returned home to Zepu.
- May 2, 2017 (evening): Lured to a police station by a community officer of the Taxinan Petroleum Base public security bureau; home searched; computers, printers, and Falun Gong materials seized.
- June 7, 2017: Arrest approved by the Zepu County Procuratorate; held in Zepu County detention center. Family-hired lawyer met him and filed a release recommendation.
- February 1, 2019: Sentenced to twelve years in a secret proceeding, with neither family nor lawyer present, according to the family-linked account. Charge undisclosed.
- February 25, 2019: Kashgar regional police notified the family that Zhang was held at Gaimilike Prison in Tumxuk City; twelve-year term recorded to May 1, 2029.
- August 31, 2026: Listed in custody in 维权网 Issue 131 monthly roster, twelve-year sentence group.
Source record
1. CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record for 张顺新 / “ZHANG SHUN XIN”: born 1966; male; last detained 2017-05-02; charge unknown; twelve-year sentence; release date 2029-05-01; held at 农三师图木舒克市盖米里克监狱 (Tumxuk Prison); case summary entered December 18, 2019. Database search (reproduce with query name=张顺新）.
2. Minghui Library victim archive — case page for 张顺新 (victim/i43939.htm): full case narrative covering the 2002 nine-year sentence, the 2017 detention and searches, the June 2017 arrest approval, the secret twelve-year sentencing of February 2019, and the Tumxuk prison placement; updated March 22, 2019. The page also references a related news report, “曾遭九年冤狱-新疆张顺新再被秘判十二年” (article 383764), whose full text could not be independently opened at the time of archiving. Read the archive page.
3. 维权网 (rights monitoring network) Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026 — Zhang Shunxin listed in the “sentenced to twelve years” group and reported in custody as of that date; Chinese form 张顺新 verified against the English listing by positional correspondence within the same report.
Evidentiary limitations
The sentencing court, the formal criminal charge, and the written verdict are not publicly available; the family-linked account states the family never saw the verdict and was not told which judge tried the case. No PRC state-media or court-document coverage of this case was located. Characterizations of the detention and sentencing as unlawful reflect the case archive’s account and are presented as attributed claims, not independently verified findings.
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