Profile: Xiong Fenglian (熊凤莲)
Xiong Fenglian — Media Archive
A chronology of documented coverage of the detention and sentencing of Xiong Fenglian （熊凤莲）, a Falun Gong practitioner from Hubei province.
2009
- June 3, 2009 — Sentenced to three years. Minghui reported that the Xisaishan District Court in Huangshi sentenced Xiong Fenglian to three years’ imprisonment. The report names presiding judge Yu Jiarun and states that neither Xiong nor her family was allowed to present a defense; family members sought an appeal through a Beijing lawyer and a public second-instance hearing at the Huangshi Intermediate Court. Source: Minghui victim library, record for 熊凤莲.
2024
- May 13, 2024 — Detained at home. Police from the Baofeng Road police station detained Xiong at her home in Wuhan. Her family, alerted days later by a call from the station, was told surveillance had recorded her distributing Falun Gong materials at a market. Sources: CHRD political-prisoner database; Minghui victim library.
2025
- August 2025 — Three-year sentence confirmed. Minghui reported that Xiong had been sentenced to three years and taken to the women’s prison in Wuhan. The CHRD database record dates her term to May 12, 2027, and places her in the Hubei Provincial Women’s Prison. Sources: Minghui victim library (updated January 28, 2026); CHRD political-prisoner database.
2026
- August 31, 2026 — Listed in the monthly political-prisoner report. Weiquanwang （维权网） lists Xiong Fenglian among the 110 people in the three-year-sentence group of its mainland political-prisoner monthly report. Sources: Weiquanwang Issue 131 (Chinese and English editions).
Source provenance note
Case details in this archive are drawn from the China Human Rights Defenders political-prisoner database and Minghui’s victim library. Minghui is a Falun Gong-affiliated source; its reports are attributed to it and have not been independently corroborated by court records or state media. No PRC official record of the 2024 case was located by name search. Readers should treat unattributed details as reported by these sources, not as independently verified findings.
Profile: Xiong Fenglian (熊凤莲)