Chen Hongyuan (陈鸿元) is listed in a rights-defense monthly report dated August 31, 2026 in the report’s “sentenced to 9 years” group of forty-eight people, which the report classifies as political prisoners and prisoners of conscience currently in custody. Beyond that listing — name, 9-year sentence group, and the roster’s in-custody classification — no charge, arrest date, trial record, custody facility, or case history for Chen has been publicly documented.
The Chinese-language edition of the report places 陈鸿元 27th in its forty-eight-person 9-year list, between 唐英杰 and 王平创. The English edition lists the same forty-eight names in the same order, with “Chen Hongyuan” in the matching position — the basis for the Chinese-character identification. Targeted searches of rights-defense reporting, news archives, and prisoner databases returned no reporting on this person under any plausible character form.
Because the only available source is the roster listing itself, this profile is intentionally brief. If further reporting surfaces — a charge, a judgment, a trial record, a custody location, or family testimony — it will be added here with full sourcing.
Source: Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026 (Chinese and English editions). See the Media Profile & Archive for the identification method and evidentiary limits.
View the Chen Hongyuan Media Profile & Archive for full source detail, the identification method, and provenance.