Profile: Xiao Hua (肖华)
This archive preserves the source record for Xiao Hua (肖华), a Falun Gong practitioner from Dongning, Heilongjiang, born in 1960, sentenced to three years and six months in prison on December 22, 2023 by the Hailin City Court. Sources are listed in chronological order with verification notes. Minghui is a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; its reports are attributed as such throughout.
Source chronology
- December 1, 2023 (reporting November 23, 2023) — Minghui English: “Additional Persecution News from China.” Item 4, “[Dongning City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Xiao Hua Detained”: records that Ms. Xiao Hua, 63, was arrested by the Dongning Domestic Security Division on September 19, 2023 for talking to a soldier about Falun Gong; that the Hailin Procuratorate approved the arrest; that she developed high blood pressure in custody; that the Mudanjiang Detention Center refused to admit her (systolic 230, diastolic 140) and she was taken to a police hospital. [VERIFIED — article fetched and read] Original article
- February 28, 2024 (record entry) — Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience Database: 肖华 / Xiao Hua. Database record: female, born 1960, from Dongning, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang; last detention September 19, 2023; charge unrecorded; sentence three years six months; term ending March 18, 2027; detention location unrecorded. Case summary identifies her as a Falun Gong practitioner, records the prior 2012 three-year sentence, the September 19, 2023 arrest, the December 22, 2023 Hailin court sentence, and notes she had appealed. [VERIFIED — CSV fetched and parsed] Database search
- Minghui victim library — 肖华 case file (i71159). Comprehensive case file: identity (female, born 1960, Xiaodiying Village, Dahe Township, Dongning); persecution history 2000 (72 days, 4,000-yuan extortion), 2004 (22 days), 2011 (10 days), 2012 (arrested January 9 with six others; sentenced August 9 to three years; appeal upheld; forced labor in Heilongjiang Women’s Prison); the 2023 case in full (September 19 arrest, home search, criminal detention, Hailin Procuratorate arrest approval, police-hospital detention over hypertension, case transfer to Hailin, December 22, 2023 sentence of 3.5 years, appeal, April 15, 2024 upheld verdict, transfer to Heilongjiang Women’s Prison in Harbin). [VERIFIED — page fetched and read] Case file
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network (维权网) monthly prisoner roster, Issue 131. Lists 肖华 / Xiao Hua in the aggregate band of prisoners serving three-and-a-half-year terms. (Roster line per queue; full report not independently opened — flagged for click-verification.)
Evidence gaps
No official court judgment or government record for the 2023 case was located; the specific criminal charge is not stated in any source reviewed. No dedicated English-language report of the December 2023 sentencing or the April 2024 appeal ruling was located. No consular or diplomatic dimension was found; no official source addresses this individual case.
Profile: Xiao Hua (肖华)