Sui Lixian (隋丽先) — Media Profile & Archive

Profile: Sui Lixian (隋丽先)

This archive gathers the available reporting on Sui Lixian (隋丽先), a retired teacher and Falun Gong practitioner from Yanjiao, Sanhe City, Hebei Province, whose 2023 detention and sentencing are documented in the CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database and by the Falun Gong–affiliated outlet Minghui. The account below draws on those two reporting ecosystems; no court record, official statement, or independent international-media coverage of her case has been located.

Case chronology

Early January 2013: Sui is among eight practitioners seized in Yanjiao after reading Falun Gong writings to a seriously ill visitor; she is later held at a “brainwashing center” in Langfang, according to Minghui. (Minghui, January 20, 2024 — reported, not independently verified)
May 13, 2023: Sui hangs a banner for the Falun Gong commemorative date; police identify her through surveillance footage and confirm her address. (Minghui, January 20, 2024)
May 14, 2023 (afternoon): Officers of the Sanhe public-security domestic-security unit together with the Yanjiao Xinggong East police station enter Sui’s home, search it, and take her — with two visiting practitioners — to the Xinggong East police station. The two visitors are released the next day; Sui is moved to the Sanhe detention center. (Minghui, January 20, 2024; CHRD record, entered February 28, 2024)
Late May 2023: The arrest is approved, roughly ten days after the seizure. (Minghui, January 20, 2024)
Late July 2023: The case is submitted to the Sanhe Procuratorate. (Minghui, January 20, 2024)
September 2023: The case reaches the Sanhe City Court. (Minghui, January 20, 2024)
October 2023: The Sanhe City Court sentences Sui to three years and four months. The charge is not reported. (Minghui, January 20, 2024; CHRD record)
After sentencing: Sui is transferred to prison, reported to be the Hebei Provincial Women’s Prison. (CHRD record; Minghui, January 20, 2024)
September 13, 2026: Reported end of the sentence term. (CHRD record)
August 31, 2026: Listed by 维权网 (Rights Defense Network) Issue 131 monthly report among fixed-term prisoners in custody, in the group classified as sentenced to three years and four months.

Archived reports

Minghui, January 20, 2024 — “河北三河市公检法黑箱构陷　退休教师隋丽先被枉判”: the fullest narrative account — 72-year-old retired teacher, Heilongjiang native, resident of Yanjiao (Sanhe) for over a decade; the May 13 banner and surveillance identification; the May 14, 2023 home seizure by Sanhe domestic-security and Xinggong East police station officers and the search of the premises; detention at Sanhe detention center; the procedural sequence (arrest approved roughly ten days later; Procuratorate late July; Court September; 3-year-4-month sentence in October); transfer to prison, reported to be Hebei Provincial Women’s Prison; the January 2013 prior detention at the Langfang “brainwashing center.” The article also carries an appendix listing case-related officials and their contact details; that appendix is not reproduced here. Original article.
CHRD (Chinese Human Rights Defenders) Prisoners of Conscience database — 隋丽先 / Sui Lixian record (entered 2024-02-28): the structured case file — female, born 1952, Sanhe (Langfang, Hebei), retired teacher, Falun Gong practitioner; seized at home May 14, 2023, home searched; sentenced by the Sanhe City Court in October 2023 to 3 years 4 months, charge not reported; term to September 13, 2026; held at Hebei Provincial Women’s Prison; links the Minghui case report as an additional source. Database search page.
维权网 (Rights Defense Network), August 31, 2026 — 中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告第131期（共1638人）: 隋丽先 listed in the fixed-term imprisonment section, in the “判刑3年4个月” group. Roster evidence only — no case details.

Evidentiary limitations

The detailed case accounts come from two related reporting ecosystems (Minghui, and the CHRD prisoner database, which links the Minghui report as its additional source). They are not independently corroborated by court records, state media, or international media.
No formal charge is stated by any source; no charge is published.
The 2013 detention account is single-ecosystem reporting, not independently verified.
Her placement at the Hebei Provincial Women’s Prison is reported as suspected/believed by the sources, not confirmed.
Status gap: the reported sentence term ended September 13, 2026. No source located by this research confirms her release or her status after that date. The August 31, 2026 roster listing predates the term end. This archive states the gap rather than resolving it.
The Minghui article’s appendix of case-related officials and their contact details is not reproduced in this archive (not case-factual evidence about Sui Lixian).
Terms such as “illegal” and “unjust” in the cited reports are the sources’ characterizations.

Consulate / official-source check

No consular dimension (a PRC citizen detained in the PRC). No PRC court-published judgment, state-media report, or official record of this verdict was located in bounded searches. Recorded as: not found.