Case profile: Chen Xitao — Falun Gong Practitioner, Hailin, Heilongjiang
This archive collects media and organizational reporting on the case of Chen Xitao, a Falun Gong practitioner from Hailin City, Heilongjiang Province, who was arrested with her husband Guo Libin on June 10, 2021, sentenced to six and a half years in December 2021, and is held in the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison.
Person profile: Chen Xitao — Falun Gong Practitioner, Hailin, Heilongjiang
Case timeline
- January 21, 2014 — Mr. Guo Libin and his wife Ms. Chen Xitao are arrested by officers from the No. 3 Police Station in Hailin City. Police ransack their home, confiscating a computer, printer, Falun Gong books, and cash. They are held in police custody for a month. (Minghui)
- June 13, 2017 — Chen is arrested at Harbin Railway Station after presenting her resident ID to purchase a ticket; taken back to Hailin on June 14. Police ransack her home, confiscating a photo of Falun Gong’s founder, a computer, a printer, a cell phone, and cash. She receives 15 days of detention. Her husband, his two sisters, and their parents petition Ding Yuhua, head of the Domestic Security Office; the sisters receive ten days’ detention, the stepmother five days. (Minghui)
- August 7, 2017 — police enter the couple’s home at night in a failed attempt to arrest their child; the family is harassed repeatedly afterward. (Falun Dafa Information Center)
- June 2, 2018 — Chen is arrested again and detained at the Hailin City Lockup for nine days, extended by police for another 15 days. (Falun Dafa Information Center)
- June 10, 2021, ~3 a.m. — led by Kong Liying, Ding Yuhua, and Li Jun of the Hailin City Domestic Security Office, officers from the Disan Police Station break into the couple’s home and arrest Chen and Guo. Police ransack the home and take the child’s debit card; Chen refuses to sign the confiscation list and police sign it on her behalf. The arrests are part of a coordinated Mudanjiang City sweep of 28 Falun Gong practitioners ahead of the CCP’s July 1 centennial, tied to the “Zero-out” campaign. Chen is placed in criminal detention at the Mudanjiang City Detention Center; Guo at the Hailin City Detention Center. (Minghui; Falun Dafa Information Center)
- September 16, 2021 — police submit the couple’s cases to the Hailin City Procuratorate; the cases are indicted and moved to the Hailin City Court in mid-October. (Falun Dafa Information Center)
- December 23, 2021 — the Hailin City Court tries the couple (judge Jiang Xinkun); each is sentenced to six and a half years and fined 5,000 yuan. They appeal; the Mudanjiang City Intermediate Court upholds the verdicts. (Falun Dafa Information Center)
- May 26, 2022 — Chen is admitted to the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison to serve her term; Guo is sent to Mudanjiang Prison about two months later. (Falun Dafa Information Center; Minghui)
- August 30, 2026 — Minghui reports Chen remains at the training division of the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison and has been subjected to abuse: personal clothes and shoes thrown away, forced into an inmate uniform, denied slippers and forced to wear sports shoes even when showering. (Minghui)
Source links
- Falun Dafa Information Center, “Farmer and Wife Sentenced to Six and a Half Years for Their Faith”: https://faluninfo.net/couple-sentenced-to-six-and-a-half-years-for-their-faith/
- Minghui.org, “Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province: 28 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in One Day” (June 18, 2021): https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2021/6/18/193742.html
- Minghui.org, “Additional Persecution News from China – May 27, 2022 (17 Reports)”: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2022/6/9/201740.html
- Minghui.org, “Additional Persecution News from China – August 16, 2026 (10 Reports)”: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2026/8/30/235713.html
- Minghui.org, “[Hailin City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Chen Xitao Detained” (July 11, 2017): https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2017/7/11/164604.html
- Minghui.org, “Mr. Guo Libin and His Wife Ms. Chen Xitao Arrested” (February 18, 2014): http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2014/2/18/145492p.html
- 维权网 Issue 131 current-custody roster (August 31, 2026), via chinatruth.net mirror (pinyin + Chinese name list): https://chinatruth.net/en/article/%E7%BB%B4%E6%9D%83%E7%BD%91-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%86%E5%9C%A8%E6%8A%BC%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB%E7%8A%AF-%E8%89%AF%E5%BF%83%E7%8A%AF%E6%9C%88%E5%BA%A6%E6%8A%A5%E5%91%8A-2026%E5%B9%B48%E6%9C%8831%E6%97%A5-%E7%AC%AC131%E6%9C%9F-%E5%85%B11638%E4%BA%BA-009b1
Source provenance / grading
- Falun Dafa Information Center (faluninfo.net) — U.S.-based advocacy organization reporting on Falun Gong persecution. MEDIUM: detailed, names officials (judge Jiang Xinkun, Domestic Security officers) and dates; core facts (June 10, 2021 arrest; Dec 23 trial; 6.5-year terms; May 2022 prison admission) corroborated by Minghui.
- Minghui.org — Falun Gong-affiliated reporting network. MEDIUM-WEAK for fine details (e.g., slippers, confiscation list refusal) which are single-source; STRONG for cross-corroborated core facts. Affiliation must be visible to readers (noted in Person profile).
- 维权网 (Rights Defense Network) Issue 131 — respected independent rights-monitoring network. MEDIUM for the “reportedly in custody” listing; the roster is a compiled name list without per-person case detail.
- No official court documents or mainland media corroboration located; none are asserted.
Conflicts and caveats
- The exact criminal charge is not specified in any source reviewed — not published.
- Exact release timing of the 6.5-year term is not independently verified — not published.
- The Chinese characters 陈喜涛 are a likely transliteration, not independently confirmed from a Chinese-language source.
- No conflicting identity candidates found; no contradictory biographical facts located.