Person profile: Sun Xiaoming (孙晓明)
Media Profile & Archive — Sun Xiaoming (孙晓明)
This archive preserves the case record behind the Sun Xiaoming (孙晓明) profile: a Falun Gong practitioner from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, detained on May 11, 2024 and sentenced to two years and six months by the Hongshan District Court on October 28, 2024. All details below are as reported by the cited sources.
Case record (as reported)
- May 11, 2024 — Sun Xiaoming and his wife Zhang Fengxia were detained by police. Both were held at the Dongcheng Detention Center in Hongshan District, Chifeng. The detention took place during a coordinated operation in which dozens of Falun Gong practitioners were taken into custody across Chaoyang (Liaoning) and Chifeng.
- About a week later — Zhang Fengxia, whose blood pressure was reported to be over 200, was released on bail on medical grounds. She later went into hiding.
- Following the detention — Sun Xiaoming was formally arrested and prosecuted by the Hongshan District procuratorate.
- October 28, 2024 — The Hongshan District Court tried Sun Xiaoming in a hearing at which his lawyer pleaded not guilty. The court sentenced him to two years and six months.
- After sentencing — Reports stated that police continued to search for Zhang Fengxia, including staking out relatives’ homes.
Reported sentence: two years and six months, term ending November 10, 2026 (as reported in November 2024). The stated charges and the prison facility were not specified in the reports.
Current status: as of the latest reports (November 2024), Sun Xiaoming was held under this sentence. His status after that date is not confirmed by available sources.
Sources preserved
- Minghui (明慧网) (November 24, 2024): Chinese-language case report on the detention, trial, and sentencing of Sun Xiaoming and the search for his wife Zhang Fengxia — original article. Establishes the May 11 detention, Dongcheng Detention Center custody, the wife’s medical bail and flight, the October 28 trial with a not-guilty defense, the two-and-a-half-year sentence, and the ongoing police search for the wife. (Falun Gong–affiliated media; characterizations are the outlet’s own.)
- CHRD Political Prisoner Database (case record entered December 15, 2024): structured case-record anchor — name, region, detention date, court, sentence, and term end. Record held in the PoC database (established human-rights monitoring organization).
See also
Person profile: Sun Xiaoming (孙晓明)