Zhao Yanhua / 赵颜华
Zhao Yanhua (赵颜华), born in 1981, is a woman from Beijing and a practitioner of Falun Gong. She has been imprisoned twice on charges connected to her practice, with her second sentence — three years — running through October 11, 2026, according to monitoring organizations.
Zhao began practicing Falun Gong in 1996 and worked as an engineer at the Beijing Shou’an Fire Protection Company. On the morning of November 15, 2019, she was seized at her workplace by police from the Liqiao police station in Shunyi district, and her home was searched. On September 16, 2020, the Shunyi District Court sentenced her to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 yuan; the judgment was delivered without allowing her family to attend the hearing. She was released around November 14, 2022, after serving that sentence. (Earlier, in October 2017, she had been detained for a month and then held in a so-called brainwashing class for half a month.)
On the afternoon of October 12, 2023, Zhao was captured on surveillance while distributing Falun Gong materials in a residential compound and was detained by the Hujialou police station in Chaoyang district. She was subsequently sentenced by the Shunyi District Court to three years’ imprisonment — the specific charge was not documented — and sent to the Beijing Women’s Prison to serve the sentence, with the term ending October 11, 2026. She was listed among prisoners reported to be currently in custody in the August 31, 2026 monthly report by the monitoring group 维权网.
Status note: the documented sentence term ends October 11, 2026. This profile records the dated facts and does not assert her custody status on or after that date — neither release nor continued detention is inferred.
Key facts
- Chinese name: 赵颜华
- Born: 1981
- Home: Beijing; engineer at Beijing Shou’an Fire Protection Company
- First sentence: 3 years (September 16, 2020, Shunyi District Court); served to November 14, 2022
- Second detention: October 12, 2023 (Chaoyang, Hujialou station)
- Second sentence: 3 years (Shunyi District Court; charge not documented); term ending October 11, 2026
- Custody: Beijing Women’s Prison
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