Media Profile & Archive — Lu Lifang (陆丽芳)
Profile summary
This archive accompanies the Political Prisoner Profile of Lu Lifang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, detained on May 30, 2024, and sentenced to six years in prison after a video trial at which no verdict was announced in court. It preserves the documented source record of her case.
Born in 1958, Lu Lifang lived in the Jiedong District of Jieyang City. On the afternoon of May 30, 2024, officers from the Quxi Police Station detained her at a fellow practitioner’s home during a coordinated sweep in which several practitioners were taken and homes searched; she was held at the Jiedong District Detention Center, criminally detained, arrested, and indicted. In February 2025, the Jiedong District Court tried her by video together with Wu Yanduo, Wu Fengyin, Yang Jingxia, and Lu Yuanyuan. The hearing is described in case records as perfunctory, with no verdict announced in court. She was subsequently sentenced to six years in prison and fined 60,000 yuan on an unidentified charge. In August 2025 she was transferred to the Guangdong Women’s Prison in Guangzhou; her sentence is reported to end on May 29, 2030.
Source chronology
- May 30, 2024 (afternoon) — Lu Lifang is detained at Wu Fengyin’s home by Quxi police station officers (Jiedong District, Jieyang) during a coordinated operation; homes are searched, and family members present are briefly held. (Minghui case archive)
- May–June 2024 — Lu is held at the Jiedong District Detention Center; placed under criminal detention, then arrested and indicted. (Minghui case archive; CHRD database record)
- February 2025 — The Jiedong District Court tries Lu together with Wu Yanduo, Wu Fengyin, Yang Jingxia, and Lu Yuanyuan via a video hearing; the hearing is described as perfunctory and no verdict is announced in court. (Minghui case archive; CHRD record; FreeChina Wu Yanduo profile pair)
- 2025 (later learned) — Lu is sentenced to six years in prison with a 60,000-yuan fine; co-defendants receive thirteen months (Wu Fengyin, Lu Yuanyuan), fifteen months (Yang Jingxia), and five and a half years with a 50,000-yuan fine (Wu Yanduo). (Minghui case archive)
- August 2025 — Lu is transferred to the Guangdong Women’s Prison in Guangzhou. (Minghui case archive, updated 2025-08-09)
Media records
- Minghui library (明慧网资料馆), victim page i141731, “陆丽芳”, updated 2025-08-09. https://library.minghui.org/victim/i141731.htm — Falun Gong practitioner case archive; the fullest narrative source, compiling the detention and trial chronology and linking to contemporaneous reports, including coverage of the May 2024 Jieyang sweep and the sentencing report for the five defendants.
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders Prisoners of Conscience database, record for 陆丽芳 (Lu Lifang), entered 2025-07-14. https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/searchpage (query name=陆丽芳) — independent database record matching the library page on all anchors: Jieyang Jiedong, the May 30, 2024 detention, the February 2025 video trial, the six-year sentence, and the 60,000-yuan fine.
- FreeChina.live, “Wu Yanduo (吴炎哆) — Political Prisoner Profile” and “— Media Profile & Archive” (already-published pair). Independent in-corpus confirmation of the February 2025 video trial: the Media Archive documents the trial of Wu Yanduo together with four co-defendants — Lu Lifang (陆丽芳), Wu Fengyin (吴凤音), Yang Jingxia (杨静霞), and Lu Yuanyuan (陆媛媛) — at the Jiedong District Court, with no verdict announced in court.
Source provenance and limitations
The fullest narrative source is the Minghui.org case archive (an overseas Falun Gong-affiliated media outlet that documents detained practitioners). The Chinese Human Rights Defenders Prisoners of Conscience database independently records the same person with matching anchors: Jieyang Jiedong, the May 30, 2024 detention, the February 2025 video trial, the six-year sentence, and the 60,000-yuan fine. The February 2025 video trial is additionally confirmed in FreeChina’s own published profile pair for co-defendant Wu Yanduo, which names Lu Lifang (陆丽芳) among the four co-defendants.
What is not established: the specific criminal charge was never publicly identified; no PRC official, court, or state-media coverage of the case has been located. One passage in the detention narrative of the case archive is ambiguous about a second location mentioned on the night of the arrest; the core facts are triply confirmed. Her status after August 9, 2025, has not been independently confirmed.
Disambiguation
Lu Lifang must not be confused with three unrelated same-name individuals documented in older reports: a 2008 Jining case (sentenced to one year of forced labor), a 2016 Changchun case, and a 2008 Beihai case involving a man — none is connected to this case.
For the case narrative, see the companion Political Prisoner Profile.