Cai Linhua — Media Profile & Archive
Identity
- Name: Cai Linhua 蔡林华 (Chinese characters as rendered in Minghui’s 2019 sentencing compilation).
- Female Falun Gong practitioner from Jieyang City, Guangdong Province; an employee at a small company in Jiexi County owned by fellow practitioner Wu Chunxiong.
- Named in Rights Defense Network / 维权网 Issue 131 (August 31, 2026), §C index — the source’s 1,638-person current-custody roster. The roster lists the name in romanized form with no further identifiers. Custody caveat: the same roster also lists her co-defendant Chen Xiaobin, who died in 2023; FreeChina has not independently verified whether Cai Linhua is currently in custody.
What is documented
On May 22, 2017, police arrested Cai Linhua along with her employer Wu Chunxiong and three other practitioners (Wu Xuqin, Chen Xiaobin, Tang Jianqun), after discovering Falun Gong-related information on the company’s WeChat account. The five were indicted by the Rongcheng District Procuratorate on January 29, 2019 and tried by the Rongcheng District Court on March 19, 2019. In mid-May 2019 the court sentenced her to 2.5 years in prison for raising awareness about the persecution of her faith. Her appeal to the Jieyang City Intermediate Court was denied. She served her term at the Jieyang City Detention Center and was released on November 21, 2019, having completed her sentence. Co-defendants received longer terms: Wu Chunxiong 8.5 years, Tang Jianqun 8 years, Wu Xuqin 7.5 years, Chen Xiaobin 2.5 years.
Key sources
- Minghui.org, “Five Guangdong Residents Sentenced to Prison for Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Their Faith” (June 3, 2019): https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2019/6/3/177902.html
- Minghui.org, “60 Falun Gong Practitioners in China Sentenced to Prison in May 2019 for Refusing to Renounce Their Faith” (July 1, 2019): https://projectshield.en.minghui.org/html/articles/2019/7/1/178274.html
- Minghui.org, “Additional Persecution News from China – December 13, 2019” (January 1, 2020; documents the November 21, 2019 release): https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2020/1/1/181714.html
- Minghui.org, “Guangdong Woman Dies 3.5 Years After Serving 2.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong” (June 14, 2023 — the subject is Chen Xiaobin, not Cai Linhua; cited for case corroboration only): https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2023/6/14/209878p.html
- 2019 Minghui sentencing compilation (Chinese characters 蔡林华, Guangdong, Jieyang, 2.5 years, May 2019): https://daiphap.org/en.Minghui.org/u/filer_public/05/7d/057db8ed-23d1-4545-9d08-6bc81fee813d/falun-gong-practitioners-sentenced-2019.pdf
- Issue 131 Source Roster — 1,638 Reported Current Custody Cases (FreeChina source reproduction): https://freechina.live/political-prisoners/mainland-china-current-former/issue-131-source-roster-1638/
Canonical person profile: Cai Linhua