Liu Guirong is a Falun Gong practitioner from Beichen District, Tianjin. She has been sentenced four times in connection with her religious practice, most recently to four years in prison in 2022. She is recorded as serving that sentence at the Tianjin Women’s Prison, with the term running through November 18, 2026.
The 2017 case
On July 7, 2017, Liu Guirong was seized by police while riding an electric scooter near the Shuimutiancheng intersection of the BRT Route 2 in Beichen District, and taken to the Beichen Detention Center; her home was searched. On August 14, 2017, she was released on bail pending trial (“取保候审”). On August 28, 2017, after being notified by the Jiarongli police station to collect her impounded scooter, she was taken back into custody by police the same day. On December 13, 2017, the Beichen District Court tried her case. In September 2018 she was sentenced to two years; she was held at the Tianjin Women’s Prison with the term running through August 27, 2019.
The 2022 case
On November 19, 2022, at about 11 a.m., Liu Guirong was seized at Wangzhuang Market by the domestic-security unit of the Jiarongli police station in connection with using Falun Gong informational currency, and placed under criminal detention. She was subsequently arrested with procuratorial approval and indicted. After an initial hold at a detention center, she was sentenced to four years and transferred to the Tianjin Women’s Prison, with the term running through November 18, 2026. The criminal charge was not specified in the available reporting. The case record describes this as her fourth sentencing in connection with her religious practice.
Current status
Her sentence term runs through November 18, 2026. No independently verified information about her current custody, condition, or release is available; release has not been verified and is not asserted here.
Sources
The biographical and case details above come from a human-rights case database, which also lists a practitioners’ rescue-database case page as its other source. The criminal charge and her age were not disclosed in the sources reviewed.