Hu Xiuli (胡秀丽)
Hu Xiuli (胡秀丽) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, reported to be serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence in mainland China.
According to case records compiled by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) Prisoners of Conscience database, Hu was detained on May 11, 2024, together with her husband, fellow practitioner Lan Qingzhong (兰青中), by officers of the Qianjin police station of the Chaoyang Public Security Bureau. The database states that the couple were subsequently placed under criminal detention, formally arrested, and prosecuted by the bureau’s national-security division and the procuratorate, faced four trials, and were each reportedly sentenced to three years and six months, with Hu’s term running to November 10, 2027. The formal charge and her detention location are not recorded in the available sources.
A May 10, 2025 report by Minghui, a Falun Gong–affiliated news outlet, describes the couple’s case as part of a group of five people — He Hongjun (贺洪军), Fu Wenhui (付文辉), Lan Qingzhong, Hu Xiuli, and Tian Pengfei (田鹏飞) — prosecuted by the Shuangta District Procuratorate of Chaoyang. The report states that three trials were held on December 2, 18, and 23, 2024, and a fourth on January 22, 2025 at the Shuangta District Court, and that on April 23, 2025 the court suspended the trial without issuing a judgment. The subsequent reported sentencing to three years and six months comes from the CHRD database record and the Minghui case archive.
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), an advocacy organization, issued notices on July 4, 2024 (updated November 23, 2024) on the May 11, 2024 detentions in Chaoyang, naming Hu Xiuli and her husband among those detained and identifying the officials and institutions it holds responsible; those attributions are the organization’s own.
The May 11, 2024 operation detained a second couple — He Hongjun and Fu Wenhui, reportedly sentenced to three years each — whose case is documented separately; the two couples’ cases are cross-referenced here but describe different people. See also the profile of Fu Wenhui.
This profile concerns only the Chaoyang (Liaoning) practitioner detained on May 11, 2024 with her husband Lan Qingzhong — not any other person of the same or a similar name.