This archive collects reporting on Cao Ailan (曹爱兰), a Nanyang City, Henan Province, Falun Gong practitioner whom Minghui reported was sentenced three times to a total of sixteen years in prison and died on May 20, 2026, after release on medical parole.
Person profile: Cao Ailan (曹爱兰)
Case chronology
- July 20, 1999: Minghui reports Cao was arrested and detained for eight days.
- February 22–May 31, 2001: Held for 99 days in a brainwashing center, according to Minghui.
- 2001–2005: Arrested again after the May 31 release and sentenced to five years. Minghui sources disagree on the exact 2001 sentencing date, so no month is treated here as settled.
- April–October 2008: Arrested April 28 and sentenced to three years in October; Minghui reports her release on April 28, 2011.
- Late August 2019: Arrested during a large Nanyang-area sweep.
- March 2021: Sentenced to eight years and fined 30,000 yuan. Minghui reported detention in a women’s prison in Henan; its reports use differing facility names for parts of Cao’s imprisonment history.
- 2025: Minghui reports a breast-cancer diagnosis, mastectomy, and chemotherapy while imprisoned.
- Early 2026: Released on medical parole, according to Minghui.
- May 20, 2026: Minghui reports Cao died at age 72.
- August 31, 2026: Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 roster still lists Cao among reported current-custody cases. That listing is stale relative to the reported May death.
Source links
- Minghui, September 6, 2026 — death and medical-parole report
- Minghui, March 26, 2021 — eight-year sentence report
- Minghui, March 16, 2021 — Nanyang group sentencing report
- Minghui, April 12, 2021 — sentencing roundup
Conflicts and evidentiary limits
Minghui sources disagree on the exact 2001 sentencing date and use differing prison names in accounts of Cao’s imprisonment history; those details are therefore not presented as settled facts. All arrest, sentencing, imprisonment, medical, parole, and death details are source-attributed and have not been independently verified against official records. No criminal-code article or independently calculated sentence-end date is asserted here.