杨芝祥 (Yang Zhixiang) — Media Profile & Archive
Companion to the Political Prisoner Profile of Yang Zhixiang (杨芝祥).
Identity record
The CHRD prisoner database carries a record for 姓名 杨芝祥 / Name “Yang Zhixiang” (entry dated November 13, 2023): male; taken away on September 15, 2023; charge unknown; sentence blank; held at an unknown location. The record identifies him as a rights-defense petitioner (维权访民) living at Yangzhuang No. 25, Shandong Village, Hengliang Subdistrict, Liuhe District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, and names his wife as 陈素英 (Chen Suying). Record obtained via the database’s public name search on October 10, 2026; a name search returns exactly one record for 杨芝祥.
Media and document records
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) information center, “南京六合区冤民杨芝祥、陈素英夫妇在北京遭截访超过三天仍下落不明”, September 18, 2023 — https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2023/09/blog-post_78.html. Reports that Yang Zhixiang and Chen Suying, petitioning in Beijing for over a decade, were handcuffed by a police officer (badge 0204901) at the national petitions bureau on September 15, 2023, handed to the local interception team, and taken back to Nanjing; at publication the couple had been missing for more than three days. Provides the background of the October 2006 assault, the disputed injury assessment, and the failed court remedies. Read in full; page live October 10, 2026.
- Rights Defense Network / 维权网 Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026 — lists “Yang Zhixiang” / 杨芝祥 in the Jiangsu regional group (8th of 13) and in the A–Z name index; the report classifies its roster entries as political prisoners and prisoners of conscience currently in custody.
- NTD (新唐人), report dated September 19, 2023, https://cn.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/09/19/a103788196.html — cited by the CHRD record as a corroborating source; page could not be opened for independent verification.
- Boxun (博讯), https://boxun.com/archives/300788 — cited by the CHRD record as a corroborating source; page returned an access error and could not be independently verified.
Verification notes
The 2023 detention narrative rests on the Rights Defense Network report and the CHRD database entry; the underlying police and court documents are not publicly available. The NTD and Boxun items are preserved here as citations from the CHRD record but were not independently readable. No charge, sentence, or detention facility is documented for Yang Zhixiang in any source found. No contradictory record was found: the roster, the CHRD record, and the 2023 report agree on the name, the Jiangsu connection, the wife, and the detention history. This case is distinct from the similarly romanized roster names Yang Zhihua (杨志华) and Yang Zhijin (杨治金), who are different individuals; no merger with any other record should be made.
Related record
His wife, 陈素英 (Chen Suying), is documented in the same Jiangsu roster group and has a published profile on this site.