Zhang Yuemei (张月梅)
Zhang Yuemei (张月梅), also rendered as 张月美 in some reports, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Qiegezhuang Village, Zhugou Town, Pingdu City, Qingdao, Shandong Province. Born in 1955, she was formerly a primary-school teacher in her village and began practicing Falun Gong in 1997.
On June 3, 2025, Zhang Yuemei was detained by officers of the Zhugou police station together with fellow practitioner Yu Hongzhi, after the two posted stickers reading “真善忍好” (“Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is good”). She was taken to the Jimo Pudong Detention Center the following day. After review by the Pingdu Procuratorate and indictment to the Pingdu City Court, she was tried in late 2025. On April 2, 2026, the Pingdu City Court sentenced her to one year and ten months in prison and fined her 8,000 yuan. The charge was not publicly specified. Her sentence is reported to run through April 2, 2027. An appeal was filed.
Key facts
- Name: 张月梅 (Zhang Yuemei; also rendered 张月美)
- Sex: Female
- Born: 1955
- Home: Qiegezhuang Village, Zhugou Town, Pingdu City, Qingdao, Shandong Province
- Occupation: Former village primary-school teacher
- Detained: June 3, 2025, with Yu Hongzhi, for posting Falun Gong informational stickers
- Detention facility: Jimo Pudong Detention Center (Qingdao)
- Prosecuted by: Pingdu City Procuratorate; tried by the Pingdu City Court (hearings November–December 2025)
- Sentenced: April 2, 2026 — 1 year 10 months’ imprisonment + 8,000 yuan fine; charge not publicly specified
- Sentence term: Through April 2, 2027
- Status: Currently imprisoned (as of the most recent dated reports, April–May 2026); detention location after sentencing not publicly specified
Background
According to a detailed case biography compiled by Minghui.org, Zhang Yuemei has faced repeated detention since 1999 for her Falun Gong practice, including multiple short-term detentions and fines in 1999–2000, a one-year labor re-education term at the Zibo Wangcun facility in 2007–2008, forced attendance at “brainwashing” sessions in 2003 and 2004, and detentions in 2017 and 2019. Her husband died in April 2012. These earlier episodes are documented in the Minghui case biography cited below.
Related case
Yu Hongzhi (于洪芝) was detained in the same June 3, 2025 incident and was sentenced on the same day, April 2, 2026, to one year and four months with a 5,000-yuan fine. Her case is documented alongside Zhang Yuemei’s in the sources below but is a separate individual record and has not been merged with this profile.
Current status
As of the most recent dated reports (April–May 2026), Zhang Yuemei is serving a one-year-and-ten-month sentence running through April 2, 2027. No release, appeal outcome, or change of status has been publicly documented since.
Sources
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record for 张月梅 / Zhang Yuemei (record entered May 7, 2026)
- World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), notice of October 3, 2025 (updated April 4, 2026) on the Pingdu case — PDF
- 明慧网资料馆 (Minghui.org case library) — Zhang Yuemei case biography — https://library.minghui.org/victim/i4652.htm
- 维权网 (Rights Defense Network) monthly report, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026) — Zhang Yuemei listed in the “sentenced to under 2 years” band