Related profile: Jiang Yanping (姜艳萍) — Political Prisoner Profile.
Case chronology
- March 16, 2023: Jiang Yanping is detained in Shulan City while putting up Falun Gong slogans; her home is searched. Zhao Changyan is detained at Jiang’s home the same day. Liu Minjie is also swept up in the case. (Minghui, Feb 4, 2024; Chinese Human Rights Defenders database)
- March 18–22, 2023: Jiang is moved through the Shulan domestic-security unit to the Jilin Detention Center. (Minghui, Feb 4, 2024)
- July 27, 2023: Trial at the Shulan City Court. (Minghui, Feb 4, 2024)
- October 26, 2023: Second court hearing. (Minghui, Feb 4, 2024)
- February 2024: Sentencing becomes known: five years for Jiang Yanping, three years and six months for Zhao Changyan. (Minghui, Feb 4, 2024; English report Feb 7, 2024)
- August 31, 2026: Listed as in custody in the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 mainland-China political-prisoner monthly report (5-year-sentence group). (维权网）
Media and source records
- Minghui (Chinese edition), February 4, 2024 — “吉林舒兰市三位善良妇女被非法判刑” (“Three Kind Women in Shulan, Jilin, Illegally Sentenced”). Reports Jiang Yanping, 58, of the Zhenbei community, sentenced to five years; gives the arrest, hunger strike, trial, and sentencing account. Full text (Chinese). Source type: subject-community media (Falun Gong-affiliated outlet).
- Minghui (English edition), February 7, 2024 — “Three Jilin Women Sentenced to Prison for Practicing Falun Gong.” English account of the same case with family and trial detail. Full text (English). Source type: subject-community media.
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, prisoner-of-conscience database (record entered March 14, 2024) — case record for 姜艳萍： born 1966, female, Shulan City Zhenbei community, seized March 16, 2023, charge unknown, five-year sentence, term to March 15, 2028, detention location unknown. Source type: recognized human-rights NGO database.
- Rights Defense Network (维权网）, Issue 131 — 《中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告（2026年8月31日）》 — mainland-China political-prisoner monthly report, August 31, 2026; Jiang Yanping (姜艳萍） listed in the five-year-sentence group, in custody as of the report date. Chinese edition: chinatruth.net (ZH); English edition: chinatruth.net (EN). Source type: established independent Chinese-language rights-monitoring organization.
Related records
Co-defendant: Zhao Changyan (赵长艳) — Media Profile & Archive. Profile: Jiang Yanping (姜艳萍) — Political Prisoner Profile.
Evidence limitations
The formal charge and the sentencing court are not named in available records; the Chinese Human Rights Defenders database lists the charge as unknown. The current detention facility has not been publicly confirmed. The August 31, 2026 custody listing is the most recent status evidence available.