About this archive
This archive preserves the media and documentary record for Zhang Xiulan (张秀兰), a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiaozhou City, Qingdao, Shandong Province, sentenced to eight years in prison on August 23, 2022. Each item below is listed with its outlet, publication date, and what it establishes. Characterizations such as “wrongful” or “illegal” are the outlets’ own wording and are noted as such.
Source chronology
- September 24, 2022 — Minghui (Chinese): “山东胶州市张秀兰被枉判八年、生命垂危”. The first detailed case report: identifies Zhang as a Jiaozhou Falun Gong practitioner who began practicing in 1996; describes the December 16, 2021 arrest at her daughter’s home by Zhongyun Police Station officers, the August 23, 2022 trial and eight-year sentence at the Huangdao District Court with family barred from attending, and her severe health condition in detention. Also recounts the 2016 detention, home search, and her husband’s death.
- October 29, 2022 — Minghui (English): “Woman Serving Eight Years for Her Faith Denied Medical Parole Despite Severe Condition”. Reports the October 22, 2022 family visit at the Pudong No. 3 Detention Center, Zhang’s deteriorated health, and the detention center’s denial of medical parole.
- 2022–2023 — Prisoners of Conscience database (CHRD): Record for 张秀兰 / “ZHANG XIU LAN” (entered 2022-10-17): female; last taken away 2021-12-16; charge unknown; sentence 8 years; release recorded 2029-12-15; detention location unknown. Cites the September 2022 Minghui report as its source. Retrieved via direct database query on October 10, 2026.
- September 13, 2025 — Minghui (English): “Crimes of Li Yanqun, Party Secretary and Warden of Shandong Province Women’s Prison, in Persecuting Falun Gong”. Case 7 of the report: states Zhang was transferred from the Jimo Detention Center to the Shandong Province Women’s Prison in 2022 to serve the eight-year term, and describes a June 2024 family visit in which she appeared in poor health in a wheelchair, with medical parole refused.
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network (维权网): “维权网：中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告（2026年8月31日）第131期”. The monthly in-custody prisoner report lists 张秀兰 in the “sentenced to 8 years” group (parallel English edition lists “Zhang Xiulan”).
Wrong-person record (do not merge)
- August 3, 2026 — World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong: “追查青海省女子监狱迫害法轮功学员的责任人的通告”. Documents a different Zhang Xiulan — a Falun Gong practitioner from Xining City, Qinghai, sentenced in September 2024 to four years and held at the Qinghai Province Women’s Prison. Different sentence, different city: a separate person.
Evidentiary limitations
- No publicly available court verdict or official procedural record for this case has been located; the charge is recorded as unknown.
- All narrative detail comes from Minghui and its cited informants; no independent corroboration from court, state media, or international press has been found.
- Zhang’s age is not publicly documented.
- No consular or diplomatic dimension applies to this case (PRC citizen); no PRC official-source record was found.