Born: 1956 · Home: Honghuayuan Village, Huanggezhuang Town, Fengnan District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province · Status: in custody (latest verified reporting, June 2024)
Wang Huilin (王慧琳) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Honghuayuan Village in Huanggezhuang Town, Fengnan District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. She began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. After the practice was banned in 1999, she was repeatedly detained, sent to forced labor, and imprisoned over more than two decades, as documented in detailed case reporting.
1999–2001
In July 1999, after learning that a nationwide campaign against Falun Gong was about to be announced, she traveled to Beijing to appeal and was intercepted and returned to Tangshan. In 2001 she was taken to the Huanggezhuang Town police station, where, according to case reporting, she was beaten and deprived of food and water for four days, then held in the Fengnan District lockup and detention facilities for months of hard labor.
2008–2010
On July 29, 2008, police from the Huanggezhuang Town station raided her home and took her to the Tangshan City No. 1 Detention Center; she was sentenced to two years of forced labor and held at the Tangshan City No. 1 Forced Labor Camp, where she developed high blood pressure and heart problems and was released on parole after about four and a half months. On December 13, 2009, she was arrested again and taken to the Fengnan District Detention Center. The Fengnan District Court tried her on April 16, 2010 and sentenced her to four years in prison; she entered the Hebei Provincial Women’s Prison on September 15, 2010.
2020–2021
On August 12, 2020, she was detained during a large police sweep in Tangshan. The Fengnan detention facility declined to admit her because of her high blood pressure, and she was released under surveillance. Her arrest was formally approved on September 28, 2020. The Luannan County Court tried her on July 20, 2021; she fell seriously ill during the hearing. On August 10, 2021, court personnel held another hearing at her home, where she was bedridden. She was sentenced to four and a half years in prison with a 10,000-yuan fine (some reports cited in case reporting put the term at six and a half years; the fuller accounts give four and a half). She appealed to the Tangshan City Intermediate Court, which upheld the sentence in January 2022.
2022–2024
She was repeatedly harassed at home by Huanggezhuang police in 2022 and 2023, and her pension was suspended in August 2022. On April 23, 2024, Huanggezhuang Town police officers took her from her home to the Tangshan detention facility. On May 7, 2024, she was transferred to the Hebei Provincial Women’s Prison, where she was being held in division 14. Her reported sentence term runs through October 22, 2028.
Notes on sources
The criminal charge against her has not been reported in the available sources and is not stated here. A November 2025 one-line arrest notice naming “Ms. Wang Huilin” in Faku County, Liaoning, carries no identifying details and cannot be linked to this case; it is not included in this profile. Case details above come from Falun Gong-affiliated case reporting, which is the only source documenting her case; official or state-media confirmation has not been found.
Sources
- Minghui.org (Chinese edition), June 3, 2024 — “卧在炕上被开庭 唐山老太王会林被枉判四年半入狱”: the Chinese original of the account above; gives both character forms 王会林（王慧琳）, her age and village, the 2021 at-home hearings while bedridden, the August 2021 sentence, and her May 7, 2024 transfer to the Hebei Provincial Women’s Prison (division 14). Full report
- Minghui.org (English edition), June 5, 2024 — “68-Year-Old Hebei Woman Taken Back Into Custody to Serve Second Prison Term After Being Sentenced in 2021 While Still Bedridden”. Full report
- Clearharmony.net — “Ms. Wang Huilin from Tangshan City Persecuted and Put on Trial”: documents the 2008–2010 period, including the July 29, 2008 home raid, detention, two-year forced-labor term with early release on parole, the December 13, 2009 re-arrest, and the April 16, 2010 trial. Note: the article’s body text repeatedly writes “Wang Huili” while the title says “Wang Huilin”; later reporting gives the Chinese name as 王慧琳 (also written 王会林). Full report
- Minghui.org (English edition), “Additional Persecution News from China – April 24, 2024”: digest item recording her arrest by Huanggezhuang Town police station officers and detention in the Tangshan City No. 1 Detention Center. Digest item
Further reading
The full documented case record for Wang Huilin is preserved in a companion media archive, which gathers the source records, case chronology, and evidentiary notes in one place.