This archive preserves the source record for the case of Liu Qingling (刘清玲), a Falun Gong practitioner from Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, who was detained on April 23, 2025 and sentenced to two years and six months with a 40,000-yuan fine. See the Person Profile for the biographical summary.
Case chronology from the sources
- April 23, 2025 (morning) — Liu Qingling and her mother Li Guiying (80s) stopped and searched by Meijiang District Domestic Security officers in Jiangnan, Meizhou; both detained.
- April 24, 2025 — Mother released to family from the police station; Liu Qingling remains in custody at the Meizhou Chengdong (Meixian) Detention Center.
- By December 2025 — Family confirms she has been sentenced to 2 years 6 months and fined 40,000 yuan; the court says she will be sent to a prison in Sanshui District, Foshan City; details pending.
- December 11, 2025 — Minghui publishes the case report; an English version follows on December 17, 2025.
Source records
- Minghui (Chinese), December 11, 2025 — “广东梅州市法轮功学员刘清玲被非法判刑两年半” (minghui.org). Case narrative: arrest with her mother on April 23, 2025, detention at Meizhou Chengdong Detention Center, 2.5-year sentence, 40,000-yuan fine, planned transfer to Sanshui. Notes she is a woman in her 50s and her mother is in her 80s. Source type: Falun Gong community case reporting; single-perspective; opened and read in full.
- Minghui (English), December 17, 2025 — “Guangdong Woman Secretly Sentenced to 2.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong” (en.minghui.org). English version of the same case report: “Ms. Liu Qingling, in her 50s, was arrested on April 23, 2025 … detained at the Chengdong Detention Center … sentenced to two and a half years and fined 40,000 yuan.” Source type: translation of item 1; opened and read in full.
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, prisoners database — record for 刘清玲 / Liu Qingling (entry 2026-01-19): female, Meizhou City Guangdong, arrested 2025-04-23, charge unknown, sentenced 2 years 6 months, term to 2027-10-22, held at Meizhou City Meixian County Detention Center. Source type: human-rights monitoring database; corroborates the Minghui case details independently.
Context from the sources
The December 2025 Minghui report notes that Meizhou City has been a heavily affected area: its reporting counts at least 89 practitioners detained and sentenced by the Meizhou public-security, procuratorate, and court systems as of October 2025. That context is the source’s own characterization and is preserved here as background, not as an independently verified finding.
Evidentiary limitations
No official court verdict text, no state-media coverage, and no consular or diplomatic record of this case has been found. The criminal charge and the current place of detention are unpublished; this archive does not state them. All claims above are attributed to the cited sources; nothing in this archive should be read as an independently verified official finding.
See also: Liu Qingling (刘清玲) — Person Profile.