Song Zhigang (宋志刚) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Huludao, Liaoning, who was working in Xinjiang before his arrest. Minghui reports that he was arrested on October 24, 2017 after police examined a lost cellphone containing Falun Gong-related information and that the Akto County Court later sentenced him to fourteen years in prison.
Minghui reports that Song was first held at the Akto County Detention Center, moved to the Akqi County Detention Center in late 2017, and indicted by the Akto County Procuratorate in January 2018. The outlet reported a fourteen-year sentence around April 2018 and a ten-day appeal period.
Status and evidence limits
Rights Defense Network Issue 131, dated August 31, 2026, lists 宋志刚 in its fourteen-year-sentence group. The appeal outcome, serving prison, and any status change beyond that dated listing are not documented in the located sources.
The case narrative comes from Falun Gong-affiliated Minghui reporting and has not been independently corroborated by a court record or independent press. This Song Zhigang / 宋志刚 is not Sun Zhigang / 孙志刚, the different person associated with the 2003 Guangzhou custody case.
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