Person profile: Wang Zebin (王泽滨)
This archive collects the available reporting on the case of Wang Zebin (王泽滨), a Falun Gong practitioner from Harbin, Heilongjiang, sentenced to three years and six months in August 2025.
Case chronology
- December 19, 2024 — detained at home. Police from the Tongxiang Street Police Station in Harbin’s Xiangfang District detained Wang Zebin at his rented home, where another practitioner was also detained. Officers seized his books, computer, and printer. He was taken to the Daoli District Second Detention Center for fifteen days of administrative detention.
- January 3, 2025 — criminal detention. Police converted the detention to criminal detention and moved Wang to the Xiangfang District Detention Center. During detention he twice staged hunger strikes, according to the Minghui archive; in late January 2025 he was taken to a hospital, diagnosed with kidney stones, and underwent surgery.
- May–July 2025 — indictment and trial. The Daowai District Procuratorate indicted Wang in May 2025. The Daowai District People’s Court tried the case on July 4, 2025 (presiding judge Liu Bangyin, per the Minghui archive).
- August 13, 2025 — sentenced. The Daowai District Court sentenced Wang to three years and six months in prison. He filed an appeal with the Harbin Intermediate People’s Court on August 20, 2025; the appeal’s outcome is not established in the available records. His sentence runs through June 18, 2028.
Source records
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — record for 王泽滨 (Wang Zebin). Records him as born in 1972, male, from Xiangfang District, Harbin, a former Harbin Bearing Factory employee and Falun Gong practitioner; detained December 19, 2024; sentenced August 13, 2025 by the Daowai District Court to 3 years 6 months (charge and facility unknown); term through June 18, 2028. Record entered October 15, 2025. Accessed via the database’s public search interface on October 9, 2026. (Chinese Human Rights Defenders is a non-governmental human-rights monitoring organization.)
- Minghui victim archive — 王泽滨 profile (https://library.minghui.org/victim/i142847.htm). Reports the December 19, 2024 detention at his home, the administrative-to-criminal detention sequence, the hunger strikes and hospital treatment, the Daowai Procuratorate indictment, the July 4, 2025 trial, the August 13, 2025 three-and-a-half-year sentence, and the August 20, 2025 appeal to the Harbin Intermediate Court. Page updated March 5, 2026. (Minghui is a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; its account of events is attributed as such.)
- Minghui English — “Heilongjiang Man Faces Prosecution for His Faith” (February 23, 2025). Pre-sentence report on the same case: a 53-year-old former Harbin Bearing Factory employee arrested at home on December 19, 2024, facing prosecution. Consistent with the above records on age, employer, city, and arrest date; opened and read on September 27, 2026. URL: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2025/2/23/225599p.html
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026. Lists 王泽滨 / Wang Zebin in the “sentenced to 3 years and 6 months” group of political prisoners in current custody. Roster classification only; no individual case biography.
Evidentiary limitations
- The formal criminal charge is not stated in any located record.
- The receiving prison is not named in any located record.
- The appeal outcome is unknown.
- No court judgment, PRC official record, or state-media report for this case was located.
- The Minghui reports use advocacy language (“wrongful,” “persecution”) that is not independently verifiable; the profile and archive above state only the factual claims with their sources attributed.
Related: profile of Wang Zebin.