Chen Min is a schoolteacher from the Liaozhong district of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, where she taught at Liujianfang School and was recognized as an outstanding teacher. She is a Falun Gong practitioner.
She has been detained repeatedly in connection with her Falun Gong practice. In November 2010 she was arrested after speaking with people about Falun Gong and received a three-year sentence. On September 4, 2018, she was seized by a plainclothes officer outside the Haolin shopping center while talking to people about Falun Gong, and her home was searched; in January 2019 the Liaozhong District Court sentenced her to four years, a decision upheld on appeal by the Shenyang Intermediate People’s Court. That term ran to September 3, 2022.
On April 23, 2024, she was detained again, this time by police from the Huanggu District police station in Shenyang. On September 24, 2024, the Dadong District Court of Shenyang tried her case and sentenced her to seven years and six months’ imprisonment, with a 20,000-yuan fine. The recorded sentence runs to October 22, 2031. The specific charge and her current place of detention are not stated in the available records.
As of August 31, 2026, she was listed among political prisoners and prisoners of conscience currently in custody in the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 monthly report.
Identity note: She is not 陈明燕 (Chen Mingyan), a Ya’an rights defender, nor the male Canadian murder-case subject of the same name born in 1983 in Shanghai — both are different people.
Media and documentation archive: Media and documentation archive for Chen Min (陈敏)