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Cheng Lianlian (程连连) — Media Profile & Archive

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Media Profile & Archive — Cheng Lianlian (程连连). This archive preserves the source chronology, identity analysis, and evidentiary limits of the reporting behind her Person Profile. It supports Cheng Lianlian (程连连).

Person profile

Cheng Lianlian (程连连) — female Falun Gong practitioner, former police officer at the Dongfeng Motor Company Xiangyang base; of Baliwan Town, Hongan County, Huanggang City, Hubei; detained August 21, 2021 while distributing Falun Gong materials; indicted by the Hongan County Procuratorate; case transferred Macheng City Court → Huanggang City Intermediate Court; sentenced to 8 years with a 10,000-yuan fine; held at the Huanggang City Women’s Detention Center; denied family visits since arrest. Profile covers the pre-2021 persecution history of the family, the August 2021 detention, the prosecution, and the roster listing.

Source chronology

  • Before 2021 (family background). Cheng, a former police officer, and her husband were repeatedly targeted for their shared practice of Falun Gong: Cheng lost her job; the couple moved frequently to avoid detention; their 11-year-old son died in a car accident around 2010; the husband suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in July 2015. Both families’ homes were raided multiple times. (Minghui, September 26, 2024; WOIPFG notice adds that the husband — whom WOIPFG names 王珏 — went insane after years of persecution and the loss of their son.)
  • 2021-08-21. Cheng and Zhang Guiying detained in Baliwan Town, Hongan County, after being reported for handing out Falun Gong flyers; homes searched the next day; books and literature confiscated; from Cheng’s home police also seize a printer, laptop, USB drive, and printing paper. (Minghui, May 28, 2022; WOIPFG.)
  • 2021-08 (days later). Through Zhang Guiying’s phone records and surveillance video, police detain Lu Hongfang; her home is searched. All three held at detention facilities in Huanggang City (Minghui reports the Tuanfeng Detention Center; WOIPFG and later Minghui report the Huanggang City Women’s Detention Center). (Minghui, May 28, 2022; WOIPFG.)
  • 2021-11/12. Indicted by the Hongan County Procuratorate (three months after arrest); case forwarded to the Macheng City Court, then reassigned to the Huanggang City Intermediate Court. (Minghui, September 26, 2024.)
  • 2022-05 (reported). Minghui reports Cheng sentenced to 7 years, Zhang Guiying to 3 years; Lu Hongfang’s sentence unclear at that time. A fourth practitioner, Wu Suhua, later implicated in the same case. (Minghui, May 28, 2022 and June 9, 2022 sentencing table: “#23 程连连 Cheng Lianlian, Female, Hubei, 7 years, Police officer.”)
  • 2024-06/11. Zhang Guiying released on bail; Wu Suhua released five months later; Lu Hongfang remained in custody at the Huanggang City Women’s Prison. (Minghui, September 26, 2024.)
  • 2024-09 (mid). New information: Cheng was actually sentenced to 8 years with a 10,000-yuan fine (correcting the earlier 7-year report); Lu Hongfang 4 years (5,000-yuan fine); Wu Suhua 3 years with 4 years probation (2,000-yuan fine); Zhang Guiying 2 years with 3 years probation (2,000-yuan fine) — all by the Huanggang Intermediate Court. Cheng’s family only confirmed her sentence in mid-September 2024; she had been denied family visits throughout. (Minghui, September 26, 2024; WOIPFG September 2024 digest.)
  • 2026-08-31. Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Issue 131 monthly report (Chinese and English editions): lists “Cheng Lianlian” among reported current-custody cases — consistent with this case, given the 8-year term.

Source grading

  • Minghui.org, “Former Police Officer Sentenced to Eight Years for Practicing Falun Gong” (September 26, 2024) — the most detailed case source; read in full. Medium for case facts (Falun Gong documentation site with an advocacy purpose; facts stated as its findings). Provided the sentence correction (7 → 8 years), the court-transfer sequence, and the family background.
  • Minghui.org, “Hongan County, Hubei Province: Three Arrested for Distributing Materials about Their Faith, Two Sentenced” (May 28, 2022) — early detention report; read via search extraction. Medium; established the August 21, 2021 facts and the initial 7-year figure (later corrected).
  • Minghui May-2022 sentencing table (via daiphap.org) — confirms the Chinese characters 程连连 paired with “Cheng Lianlian” and the “police officer” identifier. Medium; a copy of Minghui data, not independent corroboration.
  • WOIPFG notice “追查湖北省黄冈市迫害法轮功学员程连连、卢红芳等4人的责任人的通告” (2022-06-01, updated 2024-10-13) — read via search extraction. Medium; corroborates the core case (names, 8-year sentence, 10,000-yuan fine, Huanggang Women’s Detention Center) and names the officials/units it holds responsible. Same evidence lineage as Minghui for the underlying case reporting (both draw on the same practitioner-network reporting); the official-name list is its own documentation value.
  • Issue 131 report (Chinese + English editions, 2026-08-31) — the roster source; primary for the roster equation only. High for what it lists; carries no Chinese characters, region, or dates for the entry.

Conflicts and caveats

  • Husband’s name. Minghui (September 2024) names him “Wang Yu”; WOIPFG names him 王珏. The Person body reports both with the one-line caveat. No evidence of two different husbands; treat as one person with a name-form discrepancy.
  • Sentence correction. The initial 7-year report (May 2022) was corrected to 8 years (September 2024). The Person body carries the one-line history note so readers are not confused by the earlier figure.
  • Detention-facility naming. Minghui’s May 2022 report says the Tuanfeng Detention Center; later reports say the Huanggang City Women’s Detention Center. The Person body uses the later, more specific facility with the dated evidence.
  • Shared evidence lineage. Minghui and WOIPFG draw on the same practitioner-network reporting for the underlying case facts; they corroborate each other on names, dates, and sentences but are not fully independent sources. Court judgments were not independently located.
  • Charge. No official charge or statute is stated in the available sources; detention was for distributing Falun Gong materials. Do not publish a specific charge label.
  • No release or sentence-reduction evidence as of September 24, 2026; the roster (August 31, 2026) still reports her in custody. Do not infer a release date from the 8-year term.
  • Photo. No portrait located; none supplied in this package.

Evidentiary limits

No court judgment or primary court record was independently located; case facts rest on Minghui and WOIPFG (one shared practitioner-network evidence lineage). The officials and units named as responsible in the WOIPFG notice (Huanggang and Hongan political-legal officials, Baliwan Town police, the Huanggang Intermediate Court, the Huanggang Women’s Detention Center) are preserved in the linked source for publisher verification.