He Chen （何趁）, born December 1967, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chuanhui District in Zhoukou City, Henan Province, where she once worked at the Bayi Steel Plant. Minghui reports that she took up the practice after recovering from leukemia.
Around November 15, 2023, police searched her home in Zhoukou’s Xiwang residential community and took her into custody. She was held at the Zhoukou City Detention Center and later sentenced by the Chuanhui District Court to three years in prison. Her appeal was unsuccessful. She was subsequently transferred to the Henan Xinxiang Women’s Prison. The reported sentence term runs to November 14, 2026.
The criminal charge has not been stated by any source, and the trial date is not reported.
Earlier detention
An earlier detention is documented from July 14, 2011, when she was taken from a friend’s home and held for 37 days in connection with her Falun Gong practice, per Minghui’s reporting.
Current status
She is a sentenced prisoner with the reported term running to November 14, 2026 (in custody as of the August 2026 monthly prisoner list). No release is reported; release is not inferred from the term-end date. Her current whereabouts beyond the dated transfer to the Henan Xinxiang Women’s Prison are not established.
Name note: 何趁 is standardly read chèn; the English name “He Chen” is the attested pairing in both the CHRD prisoner-database record and the monthly prisoner roster — no correction to 何晨 or 何辰 has been made. This profile is not about 何新芳 (Guangdong, four-year sentence) or any other He Chen of record; those are separate people and are not merged here.
Sources: Minghui, “河南周口市妇女何趁被非法判刑三年入冤狱” (January 23, 2025); Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) Prisoners of Conscience database, 何趁 entry (entered February 18, 2025); 维权网 monthly report, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026). See the Media Archive for full source detail, per-item verification, and evidentiary limits. The 2011 detention and the leukemia/recovery account, the appeal outcome, and the transfer to Xinxiang Women’s Prison are per Minghui’s reporting; the Henan statistics it cites are Minghui’s own accounting, not independently verified. Wording such as “illegal” in the cited reports is the sources’ characterization.