Profile: Liu Bingfang / 刘炳芳
This archive preserves the documented media and case record for Liu Bingfang (刘炳芳), a Falun Gong practitioner from the Shengli Oilfield in Dongying City, Shandong Province, sentenced to six months in prison in 2026.
Case chronology (as documented by the case sources)
- Before 1999: Begins practicing Falun Gong, according to the case report.
- 1999 onward: Repeated coercion after the ban — forced “brainwashing,” detentions, and a labor-camp term, according to the account.
- April 25 – May 4, 2008: Detained by the Shengli Oilfield “610” office and the Binhai Public Security Bureau; sent to the Wangcun Women’s Labor Camp for three years. The case account describes prolonged sleep deprivation, standing punishment, forced propaganda viewing, denial of washing, small-cell confinement, and long hours of forced labor.
- April 9, 2026: Detained at a Dongying bus stop by plainclothes officers of the Dongying Branch of the Dongying City Public Security Bureau while speaking about Falun Gong.
- April 22, 2026: Formal arrest approved; held at the Dongying City Detention Center.
- June 16, 2026 (14:30): Tried by the Dongying District Court; prosecutor invokes the charge of “sabotaging the implementation of laws”; the court imposes a six-month sentence.
- After sentencing: Transferred to the Shandong Provincial Women’s Prison; reported health deterioration (high blood pressure, tachycardia). Term recorded to October 8, 2026.
- October 10, 2026 (present): Recorded term end has just passed; no further information on release or continued custody located — current status unverified.
Source record
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record for 刘炳芳 / “Liu Bingfang”: female; last detained 2026.4.9; charge unknown; six months; release 2026.10.8; Shandong Provincial Women’s Prison; biographical summary identifying her as a Shengli Oilfield, Dongying, Shandong practitioner (Falun Gong since before 1999; 2008 three-year labor-camp term at Wangcun with reported abuse; 2026-04-09 bus-stop detention → 2026-04-22 arrest approval → Dongying District Court six-month sentence → transfer to Shandong Women’s Prison; deteriorating health with high blood pressure). Record entered 2026-08-22; accessed via the database’s public search (https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/searchpage; query: name=刘炳芳; exactly one record returned; “bingfang” variant query returned the same single row; zero additional records).
- Minghui (明慧网) — “山东东营市刘炳芳女士被枉判入狱 身体状况堪忧” (July 17, 2026): full case report confirming every CHRD anchor — Shengli Oilfield/Dongying/Shandong, the 2026-04-09 bus-stop detention, the 2026-04-22 arrest approval, the Dongying City Detention Center, the 2026-06-16 trial, the Dongying District Court six-month sentence, the Shandong Women’s Prison transfer with address and phone numbers, and the reported hypertension and tachycardia — plus the 2008 labor-camp history. The article is published by a practitioner-affiliated outlet; abuse and procedural characterizations are source-attributed. (Minghui report, 2026-07-17) (No independent second case report was located: a web search for 刘炳芳 + 东营 + 判刑 returned only unrelated results — bitterwinter articles on other practitioners, an unrelated DOJ filing — and no corroborating outlet.)
Evidentiary limitations
- The formal criminal charge is not stated in the available record (CHRD records it as unknown; the Minghui report describes the prosecutor’s “sabotaging the implementation of laws” framing).
- No independent second media report of this case was located; the record rests on one case report plus the CHRD database entry.
- Accounts of abuse in the 2008 labor camp and of conditions at the Shandong Women’s Prison come from the practitioner-affiliated report and have not been independently verified.
- The six-month term was recorded as running to October 8, 2026; no information on release or continued custody after that date has been located. Her current status must not be inferred.
- No official court verdict or state-media coverage of this case has been located.
Profile: Liu Bingfang / 刘炳芳