Person profile: Wang Xiuying (王秀英)
This archive collects the available reporting on the case of Wang Xiuying (王秀英), a Falun Gong practitioner from Shenyang, Liaoning Province, sentenced to four years in August 2023.
Case chronology (as recorded by CHRD)
- 1998 — Began practicing Falun Gong.
- May 30, 2019 — Detained by Chengdonghu police station, Yuhong District, Shenyang; later sentenced to one year and six months with a 5,000-yuan fine.
- November 29, 2020 — Released after serving the sentence.
- February 16, 2023 — Detained again by the Chengdonghu police station; placed under residential surveillance after the detention center declined admission over high blood pressure.
- June 28, 2023 — Indicted by the Yuhong District procuratorate to the Yuhong District Court.
- July 7, 2023 — Taken into the Shenyang No.1 Detention Center.
- August 24, 2023 — Sentenced to four years by the Yuhong District Court; charge not recorded; term to April 2027.
- October 24, 2023 — Shenyang Intermediate People’s Court upheld the sentence on appeal.
- August 2026 — Listed by the Rights Defense Network’s monthly prisoner report in the four-year-sentence group.
Source records
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — structured prisoner record for 王秀英 / Wang Xiuying (born 1965, female, last taken away 2023-07-07, sentence 4 years, term to 2027-04, detained at Shenyang City No.1 Detention Center). Record entered 2023-12-19; the record cites a Minghui report of November 6, 2023 as its source.
- Minghui, November 6, 2023 — report on the Yuhong District case and the upheld sentence (URL recorded in the CHRD record; direct fetch failed on 2026-10-09 — flagged for verification).
- Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026 — lists 王秀英 / Wang Xiuying in the four-year-sentence group.
Same-name records excluded (do not merge)
An elderly Beijing petitioner of the same name; a practitioner sentenced to seven years in Inner Mongolia in 2004; a practitioner detained in Harbin in 2000–2001; and a public-health educator using the characters 王秀瑛 — all are different people and are not part of this case record.
Evidentiary limitations
The specific criminal charge was not recorded. No official court document or government statement on the case was located. The Minghui article cited by the CHRD record could not be fetched directly on 2026-10-09 and is flagged for verification.
Person profile: Wang Xiuying (王秀英)