Jiang Wei (姜伟) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, and the former owner of the Blue Shield Hotel (蓝盾酒店). She was detained on November 9, 2015, and sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment. She is held at the Liaoning Provincial Women’s Prison.
Background
According to the Minghui reporting network, Jiang began practicing Falun Gong in 1998. In October 1999 she was sent to three years of re-education through labor. In April 2004 she was detained again and sentenced to eight years in prison.
In June 2015, after China’s highest court announced a “register every case, hear every complaint” policy, Jiang filed a criminal complaint with the Supreme People’s Procuratorate against former leader Jiang Zemin over the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Detention and sentence
On November 9, 2015, Jiang Wei was detained by police in Chaoyang. On March 21, 2016, she was tried at the Shuangta District Court in Chaoyang; her lawyer entered a not-guilty plea. The court sentenced her to twelve years in prison. The statutory charge as recorded by the CHRD database is listed as unknown. Her sentence runs through November 8, 2027.
Prison conditions
On October 23, 2016, Jiang was transferred to the Liaoning Provincial Women’s Prison. According to Minghui reports, she has been subjected to repeated abuse in custody, including beatings, food deprivation, corporal punishment, and confinement in small cells. In July 2018 she was held in a solitary cell for fifteen days; in April 2019 she was moved to a “concentrated training brigade” used against Falun Gong practitioners.
In May 2021, prison guards telephoned Jiang’s daughter to say that Jiang had been sent to a psychiatric hospital and was being given medication. In 2001, during an earlier labor-camp term, Jiang had previously been sent to a psychiatric hospital in Shenyang for 29 days, according to the same reports.
Current status
Jiang Wei was listed as in custody as of August 31, 2026, in the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 monthly prisoner report (12-year sentence group), which classified its roster as political prisoners and prisoners of conscience currently detained. Her custody status beyond August 31, 2026 is unverified.
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