Media Profile & Archive — Luo Jing (罗静)
This archive accompanies the Person Profile of Luo Jing, a librarian at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law’s Nanhu campus in Wuhan who was detained in a cross-province operation by Henan police in September 2023 and sentenced to three and a half years in prison in April 2024.
Case overview
Luo Jing (罗静), a librarian at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law’s Nanhu campus in Wuhan, was detained in a cross-province operation by Henan police in September 2023 and sentenced to three and a half years in prison in April 2024. The case is part of a broader Luoyang-led campaign: according to Minghui’s reporting, between December 2019 and March 2022, Luoyang police detained more than twenty Falun Gong practitioners from Chongqing, Hubei, Beijing, Shandong, Hebei, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Liaoning on grounds of spreading Falun Gong material online, handing down heavy sentences.
Chronology of documented events
- September 21, 2023 — Luo Jing taken into custody in a cross-province detention operation by Jianxi-district (Luoyang) police; her home searched, according to Minghui.
- September 22, 2023 — Criminal detention ordered by the Jianxi branch of the Luoyang Public Security Bureau, per Minghui.
- October 23, 2023 — Formal arrest approved by the Jianxi branch, per Minghui.
- April 30, 2024 — Jianxi District Court of Luoyang sentences Luo to 3 years 6 months in prison plus a 15,000-yuan fine; term recorded as September 22, 2023 – March 20, 2027. Luo appeals; the appeal is denied and the sentence stands, per Minghui.
- 2025 — Minghui reports that Zhongnan University of Economics and Law dismissed Luo from her position; the report notes the dismissal drew a strong reaction among the university’s faculty and staff.
Media records
- Minghui (明慧网), “中南财经政法大学罗静被跨省绑架、非法判刑”, April 17, 2025. https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2025/4/17/492696.html — Falun Gong community news outlet. The sole located news report on this person; establishes identity (Wuhan, university librarian, Falun Gong), detention dates, Luoyang Jianxi-district police/court involvement, sentence (3.5 years, 15,000-yuan fine, term dates), appeal outcome, and dismissal from post. All case facts in this archive derive from this single report and are attributed to it.
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database (tenchu.org), record for 罗静 (Luo Jing), entered 2025-05-19. https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/searchpage (query name=罗静) — human-rights monitoring database; an identity anchor, not independent media coverage: gender F, Wuhan, library administrator role, 2023-09-21 detention, 3-year-6-month sentence, 2027-03-20 release date — corroborating the Minghui report’s anchors. Its summary cites the Minghui article as its source.
Records explicitly excluded (do-not-merge)
- CCTV anchor 罗京 (d. 2009) — different person.
- “Ms. Luo Jing” arrested in Changchun, April 2005 (Minghui) — different case, date, and place.
- “Ms. Luo Jing” taken to a Wuhan brainwashing center, February 2006 (Minghui) — different case and date.
- Corporate-fraud defendant 罗静 (Shanghai criminal rulings, trust-product dispute) — different person.
- Amnesty International archival documents mentioning “Luo Jing” in 1989-era contexts — different person.
Evidentiary limitations
Single-source case record. Targeted searches found no second independent media report and no English-language coverage of this case. Minghui attribution must be kept on every republished fact; court-official details (judge/juror names, fine) must not be presented as independently confirmed.
Charges and place of detention are not stated in any source located; marked unknown, not inferred. No PRC official-source or state-media coverage of this case has been located.
For the case narrative, see the companion Person Profile.