Wang Xiuzhi (王秀枝) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yu County, Hebei Province, serving a three-year, two-month prison sentence in Shanxi Province.
Wang, a woman in her sixties from Xinmengzhuang Village in Nuanquan Town, Yu County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei, was detained on June 14, 2024, after traveling to neighboring Guangling County in Datong City, Shanxi, where she was reported to police. She was first held at the Datong City Detention Center.
A court in Datong subsequently sentenced her to three years and two months in prison. The formal charge was not stated in the available case records. On November 6, 2024, she was transferred to a women’s prison in Shanxi to serve her sentence, which runs through August 13, 2027.
Wang had previously been detained briefly in August 2023, when police searched her home in Xinmengzhuang Village; she was released on August 30, 2023.
Case details are drawn from the Chinese Human Rights Defenders Prisoners of Conscience database and the Minghui victim archive; see the case archive for sources.
Related: media and case archive for Wang Xiuzhi.