Media Profile & Archive — Chen Hongyuan (陈鸿元). This archive preserves the source basis, identification method, and evidentiary limits behind the Person Profile. It supports Chen Hongyuan (陈鸿元).
Person profile
Chen Hongyuan (陈鸿元) — listed in the Issue 131 roster (August 31, 2026) in the “sentenced to 9 years” group of forty-eight people. No charge, arrest date, court, facility, or case history publicly documented. Profile covers: the roster listing, the Chinese-character identification method, the 9-year group context, and the searches that returned no further reporting.
Identification method
The roster’s English edition lists “Chen Hongyuan” with no Chinese characters. The Chinese edition of the same report was read directly: its “判刑9年，48人” section lists 宫文义、施凤香、王淑华、王怡、高立娟、王琳琳、程桂靖、陈继海、李国欣、杜荣、张慧岩、孙利、何喜梅、王建敏、时绍平、张盛全、李嘉惠、孙志华、包万明、申学文、张鹏、邓万英、蔡玉英、高晓歧、冯立齐、唐英杰、陈鸿元、王平创、张霞（武汉）、胡金慧、周三永、刘玲、张立萍、周华建、郎东月、易家海、王红（重庆）、田丽莎、胡彪、杨智渊、齐志银、杜秀艳、尹福英、陈艳秋、彭立发、姜德新、霍桂兰、张余振, while the English edition lists “Gong Wenyi, Shi Fengxiang, Wang Shuhua, Wang Yi, Gao Lijuan, Wang Linlin, Cheng Guijing, Chen Jihai, Li Guoxin, Du Rong, Zhang Huiyan, Sun Li, He Ximei, Wang Jianmin, Shi Shaoping, Zhang Shengquan, Li Jiahui, Sun Zhihua, Bao Wanming, Shen Xuewen, Zhang Peng, Deng Wanying, Cai Yuying, Gao Xiaoqi, Feng Liqi, Tang Yingjie, Chen Hongyuan, Wang Pingchuang, Zhang Xia (Wuhan), Hu Jinhui, Zhou Sanyong, Liu Ling, Zhang Liping, Zhou Huajian, Lang Dongyue, Yi Jiahai, Wang Hong (Chongqing), Tian Lisha, Hu Biao, Yang Zhiyuan, Qi Zhiyin, Du Xiuyan, Yin Fuying, Chen Yanqiu, Peng Lifa, Jiang Dexin, Huo Guilan, Zhang Yuzhen”. All forty-eight names align position-for-position; 陈鸿元 occupies the “Chen Hongyuan” position (27th). This positional identification, from the report’s own two editions, is the sole basis for the Chinese characters — no independent biographical source confirms them.
Source chronology
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Issue 131 monthly report, “中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告（第131期，共1638人）” (Chinese and English editions). The report’s sentence-statistics table, “判刑9年，48人” section, places 陈鸿元 / “Chen Hongyuan” 27th of 48. The report classifies its entries as political prisoners and prisoners of conscience currently in custody (dated source claim). No individual case detail is given for this entry.
- September 2026 (research). Bounded searches for 陈鸿元, 陈洪源, 陈宏源, 陈红元 across rights-defense reporting, news archives, and prisoner databases (维权网, CHRD/tenchu, Minghui, Epoch Times/NTD, RFA/VOA, CECC/Dui Hua pinyin forms; keywords 判刑, 维权, 法轮功, 寻衅滋事, 颠覆, 上访, 拘留, 看守所, 九年) returned no indexed reporting on this person. Tenchu-database name search returned no record for 陈鸿元.
Source grading
- Issue 131 report (Chinese + English editions) — the roster source itself; the only evidence. High for the listing (name position, 9-year sentence group, in-custody classification as of August 31, 2026); it provides no case detail. The Chinese-character identification rests on the report’s own positional consistency, verified by direct reading of both editions.
- Negative search results — bounded searches returned nothing; this establishes absence of indexed reporting, not absence of a case.
Conflicts and caveats
- The Chinese characters 陈鸿元 are positionally identified, not independently biographically confirmed. If a later source gives a different character form, the profile must be corrected.
- 陈洪源, 陈宏源, and 陈红元 are plausible character forms that were searched and discarded; they must not be attached to this record without evidence.
- “Qi Zhiyin” (齐志银, M041) and “Peng Lifa” (彭立发), in the same 9-year group, are different people and must not be conflated.
- Chen Hongwei (M178, 陈洪伟, 15-year group) is a different person and must not be merged.
- Nothing is asserted about the charge, the court, the arrest date, or the custody facility. The 9-year sentence group is reported as of the August 31, 2026 roster; present custody status is not independently confirmed.
Evidentiary limits
No court judgments, police records, official statements, family testimony, or news reporting were located for this person. The entire public record is the Issue 131 roster listing. Absence of indexed reporting does not mean no case exists; it means no publicly accessible source could be found by the September 2026 research.