Profile: Xu Changlu (徐长禄)
Xu Changlu — Media Archive
A chronology of documented coverage of the detention and sentencing of Xu Changlu （徐长禄）, a Falun Gong practitioner from Changhai County, Dalian.
2005
- January 11, 2005 — Taken from his home. Minghui reported that Changhai County police detained Xu at his home in Shajian Village and seized Falun Gong books and equipment. The report describes beatings and torture in the Changhai detention center — Xu alleges he was struck with rubber batons and suffered a perforated eardrum — and states that he was later sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, served at Anshan Prison and then Dalian Prison. Source: Minghui, July 24, 2022 (recounting the 2005 case).
2010
- May 2010 — Wife’s death. Xu’s wife, Guo Yuanfang, died after years of surveillance, harassment, and detention connected to her own practice, Minghui reported. Source: Minghui, July 24, 2022.
2020
- July 10, 2020 — Detained again. Xu was detained in Dalian amid a wave of detentions of Falun Gong practitioners in the city that month; more than thirty practitioners were detained across several districts in mid-July, Minghui reported. Source: Minghui, July 24, 2022.
2022
- July 24, 2022 — Nine-and-a-half-year sentence reported; moved to prison. Minghui reported that Xu Changlu, then 70, had been sentenced to nine and a half years and was transferred in late June 2022 to the Liaonan New Inmates Prison, from which he would be moved to another provincial prison within one to three months. The same report covers Dalian practitioners Xu Qiang (sentenced to nine years and ten months, taken to the Liaoning Women’s Prison) and Ren Haifei (ten years), each in a separate case. Source: Minghui, July 24, 2022.
- August 6, 2022 — Case record entered. The China Human Rights Defenders political-prisoner database record for Xu Changlu records the nine-and-a-half-year sentence, term to January 9, 2030, and the Liaonan New Inmates Prison transfer. Source: CHRD political-prisoner database.
2026
- August 31, 2026 — Listed in the monthly political-prisoner report. Weiquanwang （维权网） lists Xu Changlu among those sentenced to nine years and six months in its mainland political-prisoner monthly report. Sources: Weiquanwang Issue 131 (Chinese and English editions).
Source provenance note
Case details in this archive are drawn from Minghui and the China Human Rights Defenders political-prisoner database. Minghui is a Falun Gong-affiliated source; its reports — including descriptions of torture and police conduct — are attributed to it and have not been independently corroborated by court records or state media. The charge behind the nine-and-a-half-year sentence has not been publicly reported. No PRC official record of the case was located by name search.
Profile: Xu Changlu (徐长禄)