Profile: Song Hongwei (宋宏伟)
This archive preserves the source record behind the profile of Song Hongwei (宋宏伟), a Falun Gong practitioner from Suihua City, Heilongjiang, detained in September 2022 and sentenced to six years in prison. Sources are graded; allegations remain attributed rather than stated as fact.
Source chronology
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) — Prisoners of Conscience database record (entered September 10, 2023): Retrieved via the database’s search interface; exactly one 宋宏伟 record returned, and a full-database check shows no other 宋-family “Hongwei” row. Establishes: 宋宏伟 / Song Hongwei, female, from Suihua City, Heilongjiang; Falun Gong practitioner; previously sentenced to 1.5 years (released April 2020) and subjected to torture including beatings, the “tiger bench,” and small-cell confinement; taken away September 22, 2022, at Wuying Township by the township police station, interrogated by Suihua Beilin District Public Security Bureau police, held at the Suihua City Detention Center; sentenced to 6 years (learned August 2023), charge not reported, release date September 21, 2028; transferred to the Heilongjiang Provincial Women’s Prison in April 2023. Source grade: recognized human-rights NGO prisoner database. Limitation: record-level provenance only — no court document attached; the criminal charge of conviction is not reported. Database search page.
- Minghui — “黑龙江绥化市宋宏伟女士又被非法判刑六年” (July 26, 2023): Independently records the same identity anchors: Suihua woman, Falun Gong practitioner; prior 1.5-year sentence with April 2020 release; husband Yang Chuanhou’s October 2018 Lanxi detention and her own October 10, 2018 detention when she went to inquire; May 14, 2019 Anda City Court trial; September 22, 2022 re-arrest at Wuying Township; six-year sentence; April 2023 transfer to the Heilongjiang Women’s Prison; husband subject to an online wanted notice. The article writes her name as 宋宏伟（宋红伟）, recording both character forms. Source grade: Falun Gong-affiliated advocacy media; the CHRD database cites Minghui as its other source for this record. Limitation: advocacy framing; official or court confirmation absent. Original article.
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) — Issue-131 mainland political-prisoner roster (August 31, 2026): Lists “Song Hongwei” as a current-intake roster entry. Carries no Chinese characters and no case facts; contributes only roster-level in-custody listing.
Provenance and limitations
- The criminal charge of conviction is not reported by any located source and is not inferred here.
- The torture allegations (beatings, tiger bench, small-cell confinement) are database- and advocacy-reported; no independent forensic or official confirmation was located.
- No PRC state-media or court-published judgment for this case was located; no consular or diplomatic dimension applies to the located record.
- Related but distinct persons (do-not-merge): 宋宏伟 (born 1963, male, Heilongjiang), the 13th National People’s Congress deputy — a different person; 郭宏伟 / Guo Hongwei (Jilin petitioner, died 2021) — different surname, different person. A separate CHRD row for 宋红伟 / “SONG HONG WEI” exists in the database; it is unassigned and has not been merged with this person’s record.
Profile: Song Hongwei (宋宏伟)