Gao Menghua (郜孟花), born 1950, is a retired employee of the grain system in Cao County, Heze City, Shandong Province, and a Falun Gong practitioner. She was sentenced to four years in prison by the Cao County court in August 2021 but was not taken into custody; in mid-August 2025 she was seized to begin serving that sentence at the Shandong Provincial Women’s Prison in Jinan, with her term running to August 2029.
According to Minghui, a Falun Gong-run outlet, she had been detained repeatedly since 1999 for her practice: a labor-reeducation term starting in October 2000, a detention in October 2005, and a four-year prison sentence handed down secretly in September 2006 by the Cao County court. In March 2020, she was detained while distributing Falun Gong materials and released on bail. As of a November 2025 Minghui report, she had been in the Jinan prison for more than three months and her condition was unknown. The charge underlying the sentence is not specified in the available sources; these procedural details come from Minghui and the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) Prisoners of Conscience database and have not been independently corroborated by non-advocacy sources.
Name note: Her surname is 郜, not 高; the CHRD database itself renders 郜孟花 as “Gao Menghua”. A December 2010 Minghui English roundup reports “Ms. Gao Menghua” taken from her home in Cao County on December 4, 2010 — strongly consistent with this person but not proven, and recorded here as related only. A 2024 Hong Kong activist lead under the similar name 高梦华 could not be corroborated and is not attached to this profile.
Sources: CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database, 郜孟花 record (entered December 13, 2025); Minghui, “四年前被枉判四年 山东省曹县郜孟花现被劫入狱” (November 26, 2025); Minghui English, “Additional Persecution News from China – December 7, 2010” (2010 linkage-caveated); 维权网, Issue 131 roster listing. Wording such as “illegal” or “unjust” in the cited reports is the sources’ characterization. See the Media Profile & Archive for full source detail, per-item verification, and evidentiary limits.
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