Sun Xiaoming (孙晓明) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, who began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. On May 11, 2024, he and his wife, Zhang Fengxia, were detained by police, according to a report by the Chinese-language outlet Minghui. The couple was held at the Dongcheng Detention Center in Chifeng’s Hongshan District. About a week later, Zhang was released on bail because of a serious medical condition and subsequently went into hiding; police later sought to re-arrest her.
Sun Xiaoming was formally arrested and prosecuted. On October 28, 2024, the Hongshan District Court in Chifeng tried his case. His defense lawyer entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf. The court sentenced him to two years and six months in prison. The reported charges and the facility where he was to serve the sentence were not stated in the available reports; the reported term runs through November 10, 2026.
A note on identity: this profile concerns Sun Xiaoming (孙晓明), the Falun Gong practitioner from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. A namesake by the same name has been associated with a prosecutor’s office in Rongcheng — a different person in a different region and role. This profile does not concern that individual.
Sources
- Minghui (Chinese-language Falun Gong reporting outlet), November 24, 2024 — case report on the detention, trial, and sentencing of Sun Xiaoming and the search for his wife Zhang Fengxia: https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2024/11/24/485350.html
- CHRD Political Prisoner Database (case record entered December 15, 2024) — structured case-record anchor: name, region, detention date, court, sentence, and term end.
Further reading
Further records for this case are preserved in the Media Profile & Archive for Sun Xiaoming (孙晓明).