Zhou Hongyan (周红燕) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Wuhan, Hubei Province, reported to be serving a three-year-and-nine-month prison term that runs to December 26, 2026.
Born on January 26, 1973, Zhou worked as a corporate accountant and lived in Yangluo, Xinzhou District, Wuhan. She began practicing Falun Gong in March 1999.
On November 6, 2016, Zhou was arrested with three other practitioners while distributing Falun Gong materials at Wuchang Shouyi College. After nearly a year in the Wuhan No. 1 Detention Center, the Hongshan District Court sentenced her to three and a half years on September 5, 2017.
On March 27, 2023, Zhou was arrested again while distributing Falun Gong materials in a Wuhan residential compound. In May 2024 it was learned that the Hongshan District Court had sentenced her to three years and nine months. The charge and her place of detention were not reported in the available sources. Minghui, a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet, named a prosecutor and a judge involved in the case in its account.
As of the most recent dated records — the CHRD prisoner-database entry recorded on June 17, 2024, and the August 31, 2026 monthly roster of mainland political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, which places her in the 3-year-9-month group — Zhou Hongyan is reported to be in custody.
Status: current — in custody (reported; latest dated record August 31, 2026).
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