This archive preserves the documented media and case record for Cao Yongliang （曹永亮）, the Shanxi rights petitioner convicted twice — in 2016 and 2022 — in connection with his petitioning. Records are ordered chronologically; claims drawn from rights-defense sources are attributed to those sources.
2015 detention
- “山西汾西县访民曹永亮 被以伪造身份证为由刑拘” — 民生观察 (Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch), 2015-08-06. Reports the August 4, 2015 criminal detention of Cao on suspicion of forging identity documents and “picking quarrels,” based on his family’s account, and recounts his petitioning history from the damaged-home dispute through the 2012 Beijing interception and subsequent detentions. Read the report.
2016 conviction (first sentence)
- “曹永亮（CPPC编号：00369）” — 中国政治犯关注 (China Political Prisoner Concern, CPPC), 2016-05-03 (updated with later case developments). A detailed case dossier: biographical facts (born 1981-6-20, Fenxi county), the 2015 detention timeline, the April 17, 2016 Fenxi County Court sentence of one year and six months, reported abuse in custody, and — in later updates — the full 2021–2022 case record including the January 2022 trial, the five-year extortion sentence, and the May 8, 2022 Linfen Intermediate Court ruling upholding it on appeal. The page also preserves images of legal documents (detention notice, indictment, second-instance judgment). Read the dossier.
- Congressional-Executive Commission on China, 2016 Annual Report (“Access to Justice,” footnote 64). Cited the Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch report of Cao’s “picking quarrels” case as a petitioner case awaiting a verdict months after trial. Read the report (PDF).
2022 conviction (five-year sentence) and roster record
- China Human Rights Database / CHRD prisoner record — records: Cao Yongliang, born 1981-6-20, taken 2021-9-5, charge extortion, 5-year sentence, held at Huozhou City Detention Center (Linfen, Shanxi), entry 2022-01-31, reported term through 2026-9-21. Query the database at tenchu.org.
- Rights Defense Network / 维权网 Issue 131 (August 31, 2026), §VII statistical table — lists “Cao Yongliang” among the group “Sentenced to 5 years,” matching the five-year sentence record.
- Boxun reference (cited in the CHRD record): access denied (HTTP 403) at the last check; recorded as unavailable, not independently verified.
Evidentiary limitations
- No official court judgment text is publicly available; the trial and sentencing facts above come from rights-defense media and advocacy databases, attributed as such.
- Custody location after transfer from the Huozhou detention center is not documented in any source reviewed.
- Cao’s release at the end of the reported term (2026-9-21) has not been independently verified; no status after that date is asserted.
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