Media Profile & Archive — Zhang Yagang (张亚刚)
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This archive preserves the reporting on the case of Zhang Yagang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, sentenced in May 2025 to two years and six months in prison. Each item records what it establishes and how it was verified.
Source records
1. CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record
The Chinese Human Rights Defenders Prisoners of Conscience database holds one individual record for 张亚刚 (“Zhang Yagang”): male; from Fuxin City, Liaoning; Falun Gong practitioner; taken on May 26, 2025; sentenced to 2 years and 6 months with a 5,000-yuan fine by the Fumeng County Court of Fuxin City on May 26, 2025, sentence ending November 25, 2027; charge and detention location recorded as unknown. The record describes the Kuaishou calligraphy posting, the arrest, the 2,000-yuan bail under 取保候审, and the procuratorate indictment. The record cites a Minghui victim-library page.
Record entry: July 21, 2026. Retrieved by direct database query, October 10, 2026. A full-database search returned exactly one record for this name. Access: https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/searchpage (database search interface; query “张亚刚”).
2. Rights Defense Network (维权网) Issue 131 — monthly roster (August 31, 2026)
The report lists 张亚刚 in the “sentenced to 2 years and 6 months, 30 people” group and in its surname index; the report classifies its roster entries as political prisoners currently in custody. The sentence group matches the CHRD record exactly.
Report dated August 31, 2026; read via local cache and live mirror. Mirror: https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/08/20268311311638.html
3. Issue 131 — English edition
The English edition carries “Zhang Yagang” in the parallel “Sentenced to 2 years and 6 months, 30 people” band and in the name index, confirming the Chinese–English name equation by exact position.
Read via local cache, verified against the Chinese edition October 8, 2026.
4. Related record — 2014 Fuxin arrest (kept separate)
A 2014 report documents the March 21, 2014 arrest of a Falun Gong practitioner named Zhang Yagang, who owned a store in Fuxin City, by Fumeng County domestic-security officers with Heping Police Station; he was held at the Fumeng County Detention Center. A Minghui victim-library dossier on a co-detainee (Wang Liang) records the same 2014 operation. Neither record documents a sentence, and no source links the 2014 detention to the 2025 case. Preserved here as related context only — not merged.
Opened and read: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2014/4/10/121.html (October 8, 2026); https://library.minghui.org/victim/i91645.htm (October 10, 2026).
Verification and limits
- Identity: the person in the CHRD record is the person named in the roster — matching name (Chinese and English), 2-year-6-month sentence, city (Fuxin), and faith, with the record entered one month before the roster was published.
- The charge, the detention facility, and the verdict text are not documented in any source found.
- The 2014 record concerns the same name and city but is separated by eleven years with no documented link to the 2025 case; it is preserved as related context, not as part of this person’s case record.
- Claims about the arrest, bail, and trial process are reported as the CHRD record describes them.