Media Archive — Zhao Guokun (赵国坤)
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This archive collects available media and documentation on the case of Zhao Guokun (赵国坤), a Falun Gong practitioner from Jilin City, sentenced to three years and six months and reported held at the Changchun Women’s Prison.
Case chronology (from documented sources)
- 1996 — Began practicing Falun Gong together with her parents and brother (CHRD PoC record).
- Evening of May 4, 2023 — Detained at home with her father (77) and brother by Jilin national-security and local police; held at Jilin City Detention Center (CHRD PoC record).
- May 17, 2023 — Released from detention (CHRD PoC record).
- July 18, 2023 — Received indictment and sentencing recommendation from the Changyi District Procuratorate and a residential-surveillance decision from the Changyi District Court (CHRD PoC record).
- August 10, 2023 — Her father Zhao Xudong died (CHRD PoC record).
- Evening of December 6, 2023 — Detained again; held at the Changchun Women’s Prison (CHRD PoC record).
- April 15, 2024 — Secretly tried and sentenced to 3 years and 6 months; term reported to run to June 5, 2027 (CHRD PoC record).
Source provenance
The core record is the Prisoners of Conscience database of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (recognized human-rights NGO), entered May 11, 2024, citing a Minghui case report. No state-media or court-record primary documents were located for this case.
Evidence limitations
- The specific charge is recorded as “unknown” in the CHRD record.
- Family-linked details are attributed and not converted into independently verified facts.
- The Minghui case-report URL cited by the CHRD record could not be opened during this research pass (article URL rotation on minghui.org); the CHRD record’s embedded case summary has been read in full. Pending click-verification.