Wu Daofen (吴道芬) — Media Profile & Archive

Person Profile: Wu Daofen (吴道芬)

This page collects the documented media and database records on the detention and sentencing of Wu Daofen (吴道芬), a Falun Gong practitioner from Guiyang, Guizhou, serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence at the Guizhou Women’s Prison.

Case chronology

• 1944 — Wu Daofen is born. She later lives in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, and practices Falun Gong. (CHRD Prisoners of Conscience record)
• Pre-2022 — Wu is held in a re-education-through-labor facility in Guizhou during the earlier campaign against Falun Gong. (Minghui, May 3, 2024)
• April, June, October 2022 — Police detain Wu Daofen three times. (Minghui, May 3, 2024)
• July 2023 — Wu is last seen by friends; afterward they lose contact with her. (Minghui, May 3, 2024; CHRD record gives “last taken” as 2023.7)
• By May 2024 — Friends learn through Wu’s sister that a local court sentenced her to four years and six months in prison, term to January 2028, and that she was transferred to the Guizhou Women’s Prison (Yanga Prison). The charge is not documented. (Minghui, May 3, 2024; CHRD record)
• August 31, 2026 — 维权网’s Issue 131 political-prisoner monthly report lists Wu Daofen in custody in the four-year-six-month sentence group. (维权网)

Source records

1. Minghui, May 3, 2024 — “贵阳两位八旬老人吴道芬、蒋朝林遭诬判入狱” — Minghui correspondent report from Guizhou. Establishes: Wu’s identity (female, 80 at the time, Guiyang Falun Gong practitioner), the three 2022 detentions, the July 2023 disappearance, the 4.5-year sentence and transfer to the Guizhou Women’s Prison, and the parallel case of Jiang Chaolin (sentenced 4.5 years, held at Duyun Prison). This is the primary case narrative; as practitioner-community reporting, its factual claims are attributed. Verified — opened and read 2026-10-09.
2. CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record for 吴道芬 / Wu Daofen (entered 2024-06-17): female, born 1944, Guiyang, Falun Gong practitioner; last taken 2023.7; charge unknown; 4 years 6 months; Guizhou Women’s Prison; term to 2028-01. Corroborates the Minghui account on all five identity anchors and supplies the term-end date. Verified — record parsed 2026-10-09.
3. 维权网 Issue 131 (2026-08-31) — in-custody listing, “sentenced to 4 years and 6 months, 72 people” band, positionally aligned 吴道芬 ↔ “Wu Daofen” with adjacent anchors (Jiang Chaolin, Wang Huilin, Lü Qing, He Bin). Confirms current-custody status as of August 31, 2026. Verified.
4. Minghui Guizhou periodical, issue 610 (August 9, 2025) — reprints the Wu Daofen case facts (age 81 at publication, 4.5-year sentence, Guizhou Women’s Prison). Duplicate — reprint of item 1’s facts; canonical = item 1.

Evidence gaps and contradictions

• The criminal charge is not documented in any source (CHRD: “charge unknown”; Minghui: “charge not reported”).
• The exact sentencing date and the sentencing court are not documented (“a local court,” learned of “recently” as of May 2024).
• The CHRD record renders her name once as 吴达芬 in the narrative passage — an apparent typo; the record’s name fields and all other sources use 吴道芬.
• No PRC official or state-media record of this individual judgment was located; the case is documented only through practitioner-community reporting, the CHRD monitoring database, and the 维权网 roster.

See also: Person Profile: Wu Daofen (吴道芬).