Zhao Hong’e (赵鸿娥) — Media Profile & Archive
Person profile: Zhao Hong’e (赵鸿娥)
This archive collects the documented media and monitoring records on the case of Zhao Hong’e (赵鸿娥), a Dandong, Liaoning resident and Falun Gong practitioner sentenced to two years and six months in 2024.
Case chronology
- May 22, 2024 — Zhao Hong’e and Zhang Shujie are taken into custody by Xicheng police station officers, Dandong, and held at the Dandong City Detention Center.
- June 25, 2024 — Both are formally placed under arrest.
- September 20, 2024 — The Zhen’an District Procuratorate indicts the two women before the Zhen’an District Court.
- October 25, 2024 — Trial at the Zhen’an District Court; both defendants plead not guilty, according to Minghui.
- November 29, 2024 — The Zhen’an District Court sentences Zhao Hong’e to two years and six months; sentence recorded as running through November 21, 2026.
Source records
- Minghui (November 5, 2024): “遭构陷庭审 辽宁赵鸿娥、张淑杰当庭说自己没有罪” — reports the October 25, 2024 trial, the defendants’ not-guilty pleas, and biographical details (born 1967; former Fuchun Primary School teacher; began practicing Falun Gong in 1996). (Minghui is a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; its characterizations of the proceedings are attributed, not independently verified.)
- Prisoners of Conscience database (Chinese Human Rights Defenders network): individual record for 赵鸿娥 / “Zhao Honge” — born 1967, female, detained May 22, 2024, sentence two years six months through November 21, 2026, held at Dandong City Detention Center; charge listed as unknown. This is the only individual record found for this name in the database.
Evidentiary notes
- The specific criminal charge of conviction is not stated in either source; the CHRD record lists it as unknown.
- No independently verified update on Zhao’s custody status after the November 2024 sentencing was available.
- Zhao appears in the August 2026 monthly prisoner report’s grouping of people sentenced to two years and six months, consistent with the sentence recorded above.
- Co-defendant Zhang Shujie (张淑杰) is covered in a separate profile; link, do not merge.