Media Archive — Zhao Guilian (赵桂莲)
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This archive collects available media and documentation on the case of Zhao Guilian (赵桂莲), a Falun Gong practitioner from Damiao Town, Songshan District, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, currently serving a 3-year prison term at the Inner Mongolia Women’s Prison.
Case chronology (from documented sources)
- 1997 — Began practicing Falun Gong (Minghui library victim profile; CHRD PoC record).
- 1999 — After the start of the campaign against Falun Gong, appealed in Beijing; detained 24 hours at a police station (Minghui library victim profile).
- March 2000 — Joined eight other Chifeng practitioners appealing in Beijing; detained in Tiananmen Square; returned to Songshan and sent to one year of re-education through labor in Hohhot (Minghui library victim profile).
- 2008 — Detained again with her husband during a home raid; sent to 18 months of re-education through labor (Minghui library victim profile).
- 2011 — Sentenced to 3 years and 6 months by the Hongshan District Court; served in the Inner Mongolia Women’s Prison (Minghui library victim profile).
- 2021–2022 — Harassed at home by police; in 2022 Songshan authorities sought a 3-year sentence; the court imposed a 3-year term with suspended sentence (Minghui library victim profile).
- May 2025 — Taken into custody and sent to the Inner Mongolia Women’s Prison to serve the 3-year term; release reported as May 2028 (Minghui library victim profile; CHRD PoC record).
Source provenance
The two core records are (1) the Prisoners of Conscience database of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (recognized human-rights NGO), and (2) the Minghui.org victim library profile (subject-community documentation). No state-media or court-record primary documents were located for this case.
Evidence limitations
- Exact charge is recorded as “unknown” in the CHRD record.
- Details of the 2025 custody transfer come from the Minghui victim profile.
- The exact release month (May 2028) comes from the CHRD database.
- Family-reported details are attributed as such and not converted into independently verified facts.
- A Minghui report on her transfer to prison, linked from the victim-profile page, has not been individually opened in this pass and is pending click-verification.