Qi Ling — Media Profile & Archive
Qi Ling is a Falun Gong practitioner from Wuhan, Hubei Province, whose repeated detentions have been covered by Minghui, a news outlet affiliated with Falun Gong practitioners, from 2000 through 2025. The archive below collects the principal reports documenting her case.
Reported timeline
- December 1999 — detained in Beijing while appealing for Falun Gong; escorted back to Wuhan.
- 2000–2001 — detained seven months; one-year forced labor camp term.
- December 2006 (reported 2007) — detained for distributing Falun Gong materials.
- December 2013 — detained at home by local police and domestic security officers.
- December 2016 – June 2020 — detained; sentenced to 3.5 years; served full term.
- June 2024 — detained again in Wuhan; home ransacked.
- September 2024 — case submitted to the Hongshan District Procuratorate.
- January 2025 — indicted; case pending before the Hongshan District Court. Outcome not publicly reported.
Key sources
- Minghui, “Four Years After Serving a Wrongful Prison Term, Hubei Woman Arrested for Her Faith Again,” June 25, 2024 — http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2024/6/25/218754.html
- Minghui, “Ms. Qi Ling Arrested and Detained,” June 22, 2024 — https://projectshield.en.minghui.org/html/articles/2024/7/2/218852.html
- Minghui, “Wuhan City, Hubei Province: At Least 31 Falun Gong Practitioners Held in Prisons and Detention Centers,” August 25, 2024 — http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2024/8/25/219665.html
- Minghui, “The Case Against Ms. Qi Ling Submitted to the Procuratorate,” September 13, 2024 — http://en.Minghui.org/html/articles/2024/9/20/220941.html
- Minghui, “Ms. Qi Ling Faces Trial,” January 14, 2025 — https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2025/1/27/223983.html
- Minghui, “Ms. Qi Ling Arrested,” December 12, 2007 — http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2007/12/24/92410.html
- Minghui, “Ms. Qi Ling Detained,” March 5, 2017 — https://projectshield.en.minghui.org/html/articles/2017/3/24/162603p.html
- Minghui, “Latest News from China — 11/22/2000” (first arrest report) — http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2000/11/28/5996p.html
Note: all reports above come from a single outlet, Minghui, affiliated with Falun Gong practitioners; no independent outlet was found to have covered this case. Two reports differ on whether the late-2006/2007 detention occurred in December 2006 or December 2007.
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