This archive preserves the documented media and case record for Tian Lisha (田丽莎), a Falun Gong practitioner from Wendeng District, Weihai, Shandong, currently serving a nine-year prison sentence following the July 2022 police operation against the Hongyun carpet factory.
Case chronology (as documented by the case archive)
- First half of 2011: Arrested at work at the Taiwei Electronic Factory by Wendeng domestic-security police; home searched; sent to a forced-labor camp. Her family hired lawyers and filed administrative-reconsideration applications challenging the labor-camp sentence; the Weihai City Government upheld the decision.
- November 2019: Tian Shihong, founder of the Hongyun carpet factory and — according to the case reports — Tian Lisha’s brother, died at age 64 after years of detention, labor-camp confinement, and harassment. His wife Li Shuhong and daughter continued operating the factory.
- July 20, 2022 (morning): Wendeng Branch police, reinforced by riot police, moved into the Hongyun carpet factory; Tian Lisha, Li Shuhong, and Liu Mingming were taken away; the factory was sealed. Reports of the July 21 operation describe about two hundred officers surrounding the plant, controlling workers individually, and seizing books, printers, engraving equipment, and data media. Ten-plus local practitioners were seized the same day.
- August 28, 2022: Tian Lisha, Li Shuhong, Qu Aiping, and Zhang Yingming formally arrested on the approval of the Wendeng District Procuratorate; held in Wendeng and Weihai detention centers. Five others were released on bail.
- December 28, 2022: Rongcheng City Procuratorate indicted all nine practitioners at the Rongcheng City Court.
- August 24, 2023: The nine stood trial at the Rongcheng City Court; the reports state Tian Lisha rejected the charges in court and the practitioners were interrupted and threatened during the proceedings.
- December 2023: Reporting networks learned Tian Lisha had been sentenced to nine years; Li Shuhong two years; Liu Mingming nine months. The charge was not publicly stated. Term recorded to July 19, 2031.
- August 31, 2026: Listed in custody in the 维权网 Issue 131 monthly roster, nine-year sentence group.
Source record
- Minghui news, December 13, 2023 — “山东威海市法轮功学员田丽莎被枉判九年”: reports the nine-year sentence of Tian Lisha (and the two-year and nine-month sentences of co-defendants Li Shuhong and Liu Mingming), the July 20, 2022 raid on the Hongyun carpet factory, the August 28, 2022 formal arrests, the December 28, 2022 indictment, and the August 24, 2023 trial at the Rongcheng City Court. Full report
- Minghui news, January 20, 2023 — “山东威海市田丽莎等九名法轮功学员被构陷到法院”: reports the indictment of the nine practitioners; gives Tian Lisha’s date of birth (December 11, 1969), the July 2022 seizure, the August 28, 2022 formal arrest, and the list of the nine co-defendants with their birth dates. Full report
- Minghui news, July 25, 2022 — “山东威海市文登洪云地毯厂被公安局非法封闭”: contemporaneous report of the factory raid and sealing: Tian Lisha and Liu Mingming taken away, factory legal representative Li Shuhong unaccounted for at the time, and a call for the rescue of the detained practitioners. Full report
- World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), January 25, 2023 — “追查山东省威海市文登区迫害田丽莎等九名法轮功学员的责任人的通告” (PDF): monitoring-organization notice opening a case file on the 2022 arrests; corroborates Tian Lisha (female, born December 1969), the July 21, 2022 operation, the August 28, 2022 arrests, the December 28, 2022 indictment, and names the responsible units and officials. Full notice (PDF)
- Minghui (English edition), October 6, 2011 — “Falun Gong Practitioners’ Families’ Appeal to Weihai Court Rejected, Court Afraid of Setting a Precedent”: reports Tian Lisha’s 2011 forced-labor-camp sentence, her arrest at the Taiwei Electronic Factory, the home search, and her family’s rejected administrative-reconsideration appeal to the Weihai City Government and courts. Full report
- Minghui news, December 26, 2019 — “山东文登壁挂厂厂长田世洪遭迫害含冤离世”: background on Tian Shihong, founder of the Hongyun carpet factory, and his years of detention and labor-camp confinement before his death in November 2019; related-family context, not a source on Tian Lisha herself. Full report
- Prisoners of Conscience database (human-rights monitoring organization) — individual record for 田丽莎 / “Tian Lisha”: female; seized 2022-07-20; charge unknown; nine-year sentence; term to 2031-07-19; detention location unknown. Public search (query name=田丽莎)
- 维权网 / Chinese-language rights monitoring network — Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026: 田丽莎 listed in the “sentenced to nine years” group, reported in custody.
Evidentiary limitations
- The sentencing court beyond Rongcheng City Court, the formal criminal charge, and the written verdict are not publicly available.
- The arrest date is reported as July 20, 2022 in some reports and July 21, 2022 in others — a one-day variance in the reporting. No single date is asserted as certain.
- No PRC state-media or court-document coverage of this case was located. Characterizations of the detention, trial, and sentencing as unlawful reflect the reporting networks’ accounts and are presented as attributed claims, not independently verified findings.
- The Tian Shihong item is included as related-family background, not as evidence about Tian Lisha herself.
- This record concerns Tian Lisha (田丽莎) of Weihai, Shandong — the nine-year Hongyun factory case. It must not be conflated with Tian Lili (田丽丽) or Tian Liping (田丽平), whose cases carry different localities and sentences.
See also
The profile page for Tian Lisha (田丽莎) gathers her biography, the case narrative, and current status in full.