This archive preserves the documented case records concerning Liu Guirong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Beichen District, Tianjin, sentenced in 2022 in connection with her religious practice.
About this archive
Biographical summary: Liu Guirong (刘桂荣). The records below are listed with their provenance. Where the source is a monitoring database, that is stated.
Source chronology
July 7, 2017 — First seizure (2017 case). Police seize Liu Guirong while she rides an electric scooter near the Shuimutiancheng intersection of the BRT Route 2 in Beichen District; she is taken to the Beichen Detention Center and her home is searched.
August 14, 2017 — Released on bail. Liu Guirong is released on bail pending trial.
August 28, 2017 — Taken back into custody. After collecting her impounded scooter from the Jiarongli police station, she is seized again by police the same day.
December 13, 2017 — Trial. The Beichen District Court tries her case.
September 2018 — Sentenced. Sentenced to two years; held at the Tianjin Women’s Prison, term through August 27, 2019.
November 19, 2022 — Second seizure (2022 case). At about 11 a.m., Liu Guirong is seized at Wangzhuang Market by the domestic-security unit of the Jiarongli police station in connection with using Falun Gong informational currency; placed under criminal detention, then arrested and indicted.
2022 (after the arrest) — Sentenced. Sentenced to four years; transferred to the Tianjin Women’s Prison, term through November 18, 2026. The charge was not specified in the available reporting. The case record describes this as her fourth sentencing in connection with her religious practice.
2019-12-18 — Case-database entry. A human-rights case database records the entry (subsequently updated with the 2022 events): 刘桂荣 / Liu Guirong / F / taken 2022.11.19 / charge unknown / 4 years / term to 2026.11.18 / Tianjin Women’s Prison.
Source records
- Case-database record — 刘桂荣 / Liu Guirong / female / taken 2022.11.19 / charge unknown / 4 years / term to 2026.11.18 / Tianjin Women’s Prison, with the full 2017–2022 case narrative above. (Human-rights monitoring database; single unique exact-name row; entered 2019-12-18, updated with 2022 events.)
- Practitioners’ rescue-database case page — listed by the case database as its other source. Page loads (site title verified); page content could not be individually verified in the research pass and is recorded here as a listed reference, not as an independently verified item.
Contradictions and gaps
- The criminal charge was not disclosed in the sources reviewed.
- The dates and facts of her first three sentencings (other than the 2018 two-year term) are not detailed in the available record; only the “fourth sentencing” characterization is recorded.
- No independent second outlet with an individual case report on the Tianjin Liu Guirong was located; targeted searches returned only wrong-person noise.
- No official or state-media coverage of the case was found.
See also: Liu Guirong (刘桂荣) — Person Profile.