金汉艳 (Jin Hanyan) — Political Prisoner Profile
Identification method
The Issue 131 roster’s Chinese edition lists 金汉艳 in its sentenced-to-8-years-6-months group but gives no case detail. A record in a prisoners-of-conscience database (queried directly, October 10, 2026) gives the same Chinese characters with the romanization “Jin Hanyan,” a petitioner from Yunxi County, Shiyan, Hubei, detained April 2022, criminal detention June 14, 2022, transferred to Shiyan City Detention Center June 28, 2022, sentenced to 8 years and 6 months for picking quarrels and provoking trouble, term to December 13, 2030. The Rights Defense Network’s July 2022 monthly report records the same April–June 14–June 28 detention sequence and the same suspected offense. Across the database’s 4,372 records, exactly one entry matches this name. Identification rests on: exact Chinese name + romanization + Hubei/Yunxi geography + the detention timeline + the identical 8-year-6-month sentence figure matching the roster band.
Source chronology
- November 11, 2013 — 民生观察 (People’s Livelihood Watch). “湖北金汉艳等一组访民被截访关黑监狱的消息”: reported that Jin Hanyan, a petitioner from Yunxi, was intercepted in Beijing on November 8, 2013 by township officials and taken back to Hubei, where she was being held in an unofficial detention facility (black jail) in her home township, along with a group of other petitioners. Documents a long petitioning history before the 2022 detention.
- July 31, 2022 — Rights Defense Network, Issue 82 monthly prisoner report （维权网：中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告第82期）. Separate entries for 金汉琴 and 金汉艳: both sisters, from Tumen Town, Yunxi County, sought assigned civil-service posts after graduating from the Shiyan agricultural school in 1997; were confined in a psychiatric hospital for six months; petitioned Beijing again in April 2022; were seized by Yunxi stability-maintenance personnel and confined in a Shiyan business hotel; on June 14, 2022 Yunxi County police confiscated their phones and placed both under criminal detention on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble; on June 28 they were transferred to the Shiyan City Detention Center. Family members reported receiving no detention paperwork.
- August 4, 2022 (entry date) — Prisoners of Conscience database record. 金汉艳 / Jin Hanyan, female, Tumen Town villager; picking quarrels and provoking trouble; 8 years 6 months; term to December 13, 2030; Yunxi County Detention Center, Shiyan. Case narrative: the 1997 placement grievance, repeated petitioning, the 2005–2012 detentions, the April–June 2022 detention sequence, the Yunxi County Court 8-year-6-month sentence; appeal; Shiyan Intermediate Court second-instance ruling revoking the judgment; February 24, 2025 retrial application to the Hubei High Court (outcome unknown).
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network, Issue 131. Lists 金汉艳 in the sentenced-to-8-years-6-months group, in custody.
Media records
- 民生观察 (msguancha.com), 2013-11-11. “湖北金汉艳等一组访民被截访关黑监狱的消息.” Independent Chinese-language advocacy outlet. Establishes Jin Hanyan’s pre-2022 petitioning history and 2013 black-jail detention. Verification: VERIFIED (page opened and read, October 10, 2026). URL: https://www.msguancha.com/a/lanmu4/2013/1111/8694.html
- 维权网 Issue 82 (wqw2010.blogspot.com), 2022-07-31. Monthly prisoner report with dedicated 金汉艳 entry. Established monitoring organization. Corroborates the CHRD record’s detention sequence and suspected offense independently. Verification: VERIFIED (page opened and read; entries located at lines 651–658). URL: https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2022/07/202273182-1376_59.html
- Prisoners of Conscience database record (entered 2022-08-04). Rights-monitoring database. Primary case record: full biographical narrative, charge, sentence, appeal history. Verification: VERIFIED (record re-fetched live October 10, 2026; multi-anchor match with roster and Issue-82 report). Held in shared packet data.
- 中国数字时代 (chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/239922.html). Listed as a further source in the database record. Verification: UNABLE TO VERIFY — the page could not be opened from this environment (network policy prevented access, October 10, 2026); do not treat as a verified source without a live read. URL preserved for the publisher.
- 博讯 (news.boxun.com), 2009-10-29. Listed as a further source in the database record. Verification: NOT OPENED THIS PASS — flagged for downstream click-verification; treated as UNVERIFIED until opened. URL: https://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2009/10/200910292214.shtml
Best sources for the Person page
The Prisoners of Conscience database record (fullest case narrative), the Rights Defense Network Issue-82 report (independent corroboration of the 2022 detention), and the 2013 民生观察 article (long petitioning history).
Best sources for the Media Archive page
The 2013 民生观察 black-jail report, the Issue-82 monthly report entries, and the Issue-131 roster listing — preserved here as the dated source chronology.
Consulate / official-source check
Not relevant: no documented diplomatic or consular dimension to this petitioner case; no official-source statement located in the same research pass.
Contradictions and evidence gaps
- The conviction is not independently verified against a court record; the sentence figure (8 years 6 months) appears identically in the database record and the Issue-131 roster band, and the two advocacy sources agree on the offense (picking quarrels and provoking trouble).
- Exact birth date and age: not stated in any source. Not published.
- The February 24, 2025 retrial application’s outcome is unknown; no source after that date addresses it. Not inferred.
- The 博讯 2009 link and the 中国数字时代 link remain unverified for this person; no fact in this archive depends on them.
- Current detention location beyond the August 2022 database entry and the August 2026 roster listing: not confirmed.
This archive preserves what the cited sources record and nothing more. Allegations and characterizations from advocacy outlets are reported as such; this archive does not present them as official findings.