Media Profile & Archive — Lu Jinhua (陆金华)
Profile summary
This archive accompanies the Political Prisoner Profile of Lu Jinhua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Changchun, Jilin Province, detained on February 19, 2023, and sentenced to four years in prison after a trial held without notifying her family. It preserves the documented source record of her case.
Born in 1965, Lu Jinhua was detained during a coordinated police operation in Changchun on the morning of February 19, 2023. Officers from the Dongzhan Police Station of the Erdao District Public Security Bureau took her from a fellow practitioner’s home; homes were searched and multiple practitioners were detained in the same sweep. After 15 days of administrative detention, her detention was converted to criminal detention on March 7, 2023. She was tried in secret — her family was not informed of the hearing — and sentenced to four years in prison on an unidentified charge. She is serving the sentence at the Jilin Provincial Women’s Prison (Hei Zuizi Prison) in Changchun; the sentence is reported to end on February 18, 2027.
Source chronology
- February 19, 2023 — Lu Jinhua is detained at around 9 a.m. by four officers from the Dongzhan Police Station (Erdao District, Changchun) at a home in the Yuanding Garden area of Jingyue District, during a coordinated operation that also detains Zhang Chunjie and Zhao Guizhi; homes are searched. (Minghui case archive)
- March 7, 2023 — Her 15-day administrative detention expires; officers take her for a medical examination and convert the detention to criminal detention. (Minghui case archive)
- 2023 (date unspecified) — She is arrested, indicted, and tried without family notification, then sentenced to four years in prison; the charge is not publicly identified. (Minghui case archive; CHRD database record)
- 2024–2025 — She is serving her sentence at the Jilin Provincial Women’s Prison (Hei Zuizi Prison), Changchun. (Minghui case archive, updated 2025-02-01; CHRD record entered 2024-02-28)
- August 31, 2026 — The Rights Defense Network’s monthly report on mainland political prisoners and prisoners of conscience lists Lu Jinhua in the group of prisoners recorded as serving four-year sentences. (Rights Defense Network)
Media records
- Minghui library (明慧网资料馆), victim page i139068, “陆金华（逯金华）”, updated 2025-02-01. https://library.minghui.org/victim/i139068.htm — Falun Gong practitioner case archive; the fullest narrative source for this case, compiling the detention chronology and linking to contemporaneous reports, including coverage of the February 2023 Changchun sweep and a first-half-2023 Changchun persecution roundup.
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders Prisoners of Conscience database, record for 陆金华 (Lu Jinhua), entered 2024-02-28. https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/searchpage (query name=陆金华) — independent database record matching the library page on all anchors: Changchun, February 19, 2023 detention by the Erdao Dongzhan police, secret trial, four-year sentence, Jilin Provincial Women’s Prison, sentence to 2027-02-18.
- Rights Defense Network (维权网), monthly political-prisoner report, August 31, 2026. Roster listing: 陆金华 in the group of prisoners recorded as serving four-year sentences.
Source provenance and limitations
The fullest narrative source is the Minghui.org case archive (an overseas Falun Gong-affiliated media outlet that documents detained practitioners). The Chinese Human Rights Defenders Prisoners of Conscience database independently records the same person with matching anchors: Changchun, February 19, 2023 detention by the Erdao Dongzhan police, secret trial, four-year sentence, Jilin Provincial Women’s Prison.
What is not established: the specific criminal charge was never publicly identified; the trial court is not named in available sources; no PRC official, court, or state-media coverage of the case has been located. The August 2026 roster’s four-year section header counts 171 people while the published list contains 169 names in both language editions — a source-count discrepancy that does not affect Lu Jinhua’s entry. Her name also appears in case records as 逯金华, an alternate rendering of the same name. Her status after February 1, 2025, has not been independently confirmed.
For the case narrative, see the companion Political Prisoner Profile.