Zhang Sifeng / 张思锋 — Media Profile & Archive
For the profile of Zhang Sifeng, see Zhang Sifeng / 张思锋.
This archive preserves the documented media and case record for Zhang Sifeng (张思锋， also recorded as 张思峰）, a Falun Gong practitioner from Wuhan’s Hanyang District, currently serving a four-year prison sentence.
Case chronology (as documented by the case archive)
- 2000: Traveled to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong; on return, detained by Hanyang “610” and public-security police and held in the Tangxunhu brainwashing center, with transfers to Taojialing and Yangyuan centers.
- 2001: Sentenced to one year of re-education through labor; served at the Hewan labor camp, where accounts describe sleep deprivation, forced labor, and forced standing.
- September 2002: Detained on his way home from work; held in the Taojialing brainwashing center.
- October 2006: Seized while out teaching computer skills; held in the Taojialing and Chenjiaji brainwashing centers for over a month, then transferred to the Hanyang detention center on December 13; home searched on December 31.
- 2007: Sentenced to a second one-year labor-camp term; on release the labor camp handed him to the Hanyang “610” office, which held him in the Taojialing brainwashing center for another month; released January 8, 2008. Detained again May 7, 2008 during the pre-Olympic sweep; held in Taojialing for about half a year.
- September 2010: Detained again and held in the Hubei provincial “legal education center” (brainwashing center); accounts describe forced feeding after a hunger strike.
- May 12, 2024: Detained by Jianghan Branch police of the Wuhan public security bureau; held in Jianghan and Hanyang detention centers.
- Late January 2025: Sentenced to four years by the Wuhan Hanyang District Court; charge and detention location unknown; term recorded to May 11, 2028.
- August 31, 2026: Listed in custody in 维权网 Issue 131 monthly roster, four-year sentence group.
Source record
1. CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record for 张思锋 / “Zhang Sifeng”: male; in his seventies as of 2025; Wuhan Hanyang, Jianqiao Street; Huayuan Power Group employee; last detained 2024-05-12; charge unknown; four-year sentence; release date 2028-05-11; detention location unknown; case summary entered March 11, 2025. Database search (reproduce with query name=张思锋）.
2. Minghui Library (明慧网资料馆） — case page for 张思锋（张思峰） (victim/i33741.htm): full case narrative covering the 2000–2010 detentions, labor-camp terms, and brainwashing-center detentions described above; the page also records the 张思峰 name variant. Read the archive page.
3. 维权网 (rights monitoring network) — Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026: Zhang Sifeng listed in the “sentenced to four years” group and reported in custody as of that date; Chinese form 张思锋 verified against the English listing by positional correspondence within the same report.
Evidentiary limitations
The birth year is approximate (recorded as “in his seventies” as of 2025). The formal criminal charge for the 2025 sentence and the current place of detention are not publicly recorded. The exact sentencing date in January 2025 is not stated. No PRC state-media or court-document coverage of this case was located. Detention-abuse details and characterizations of the detentions as unlawful reflect the practitioner-community case archive’s account and are presented as attributed claims, not independently verified findings.
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