### Cheng Xiaofeng — Media Profile & Archive
This archive collects the media record of the detention, trial, and sentencing of Zhuzhou activist Cheng Xiaofeng (程晓峰), a former criminal police officer detained in July 2024 and sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
**Case chronology**
– **2020–2021** — Cheng publicly questions COVID testing and vaccine policies; files a formal application to organize a public protest in August 2021; accompanies lawyer Xie Yang to support an elementary teacher facing forced psychiatric treatment (CHRD).
– **August 15, 2023** — Nearly 50 citizens from Zhuzhou, Changsha, Xiangtan, and Hengyang plan to visit the Nanyue Zhonglie Temple to commemorate war dead; all are controlled or dissuaded by police and the event is canceled (RFA).
– **Early June 2024** — Cheng visits Shuangfeng County, Loudi, to pay tribute at Ouyang Jinghua’s grave and attends a June 4 commemoration (CECC; RFA).
– **July 6, 2024** — Home and tea house raided; criminally detained by the Hetang District Branch of the Zhuzhou Public Security Bureau on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” (RFA; CHRD; Freedom House CMB Issue 182, citing Weiquanwang).
– **August 9, 2024** — Formally arrested by the procuratorate; held at Zhuzhou Detention Center (RFA).
– **November 2025** — Trial held in a Zhuzhou court (RFA).
– **December 2025** — Sentenced to 3 years and 6 months; verdict read in court but written judgment not delivered to his father (RFA, reported March 2026). *Conflicting account:* CHRD’s January 22, 2026 alert says the sentence was handed down “this month” (January 2026). CIVICUS likewise dates the sentencing to January 2026.
– **January 2026 onward** — Case cited in CHRD’s alert on “picking quarrels” convictions and in CIVICUS Monitor’s 2026 China briefing.
**Source archive**
1. Chinese Human Rights Defenders, “Alert: China jails three for ‘picking quarrels’ in ongoing assault on free expression,” January 22, 2026 — sentencing and biography summary. https://www.nchrd.org/2026/01/alert-china-jails-three-for-picking-quarrels-in-ongoing-assault-on-free-expression/
2. Radio Free Asia (reprinted), “异议人士程晓峰被判三年半，父亲未获判决书,” March 4, 2026 — detention, arrest, trial, sentencing, family details. https://www.peoplenewstoday.com/news/en/2026/03/04/1133113.html and https://www.westca.com/News/article/sid=1186701/%E5%BC%82%E8%AE%AE%E4%BA%BA%E5%A3%AB%E7%A8%8B%E6%99%93%E5%B3%B0%E8%A2%AB%E5%88%A4%E4%B8%89%E5%B9%B4%E5%8D%8A%E7%88%B6%E4%BA%B2%E6%9C%AA%E8%8E%B7%E5%88%A4%E5%88%B3%E4%B9%A6/lang=schinese.html
3. CIVICUS Monitor, “China: Xi regime targets activists, journalists, ethnic minorities, foreign critics and underground churches” — 2026 sentencing summary. https://monitor.civicus.org/explore/china-xi-regime-targets-activists-journalists-ethnic-minorities-foreign-critics-and-underground-churches/
4. CECC, 2024 Annual Report — Civil Society (PDF) — July 2024 detention and June 4 activities. https://www.cecc.gov/sites/evo-subsites/cecc.house.gov/files/2024-12/2024-CH2-Civil-Society.pdf
5. Freedom House, China Media Bulletin Issue 182, July 2024 (PDF) — detention report citing Weiquanwang. https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/Eng_FH_CMB_2024_July_182%20.pdf
**Disambiguation note:** A Minghui.org report from January 2015 mentions a “Ms. Cheng Xiaofeng, 51” briefly detained in Tangshan, Hebei, for Falun Gong activity. That is a different person and must not be merged into this profile.
**[INSERT RECIPROCAL LINK: “Back to person profile: Cheng Xiaofeng (程晓峰)” linking to the Person page]**
—
Media archive: Cheng Xiaofeng (程晓峰)