Xu Hengkui (许恒奎) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record behind the Xu Hengkui (许恒奎) profile: a 2022 detention in Guan County, the 2022–2024 trial and appeal cycle, and the roster corroboration of his custody status. Sources are graded; claims from a single source remain attributed rather than stated as independently established fact.
Tenzhu political-prisoner database — Xu Hengkui record (pocs/3592; updated April 12, 2024)
(Opened and read in full: http://tenchu.org/pocd/public/pocs/3592). Structured case record for 许恒奎 / Xu Hengkui: male, born 1963-03-05, farmer, Ganguantun village, Guan County, Liaocheng, Shandong; Falun Gong practitioner. Taken away May 13, 2022; sentenced January 4, 2023 to seven years and six months with an 18,000-yuan fine; charge unknown; appeal upheld by the Liaocheng Intermediate Court; recorded release date November 12, 2029; location: Shandong Provincial Prison; status: in prison. Source grade: structured political-prisoner database; attributed.
Minghui library — Victim profile (i141202; updated September 19, 2025)
(Opened and read in full: https://library.minghui.org/victim/i141202.htm). The fullest public account: the May 13, 2022 detention and home search; the December 21, 2022 video trial of eight practitioners and the January 4, 2023 sentences; the February 2023 appeals; the Liaocheng Intermediate Court’s April 2023 order vacating the judgment and remanding for retrial; the retrial and the final 2024 upholding of Xu’s seven-and-a-half-year sentence and 18,000-yuan fine; his reported transfer to Jinan Prison. Also recounts the 2000–2002 detentions, including the March 2002 re-education-through-labor term, and describes the treatment of Xu’s wife Fan Xiuqin during a 2001 detention. Source grade: Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; attribution required throughout; its legal characterizations and accounts of ill-treatment are the outlet’s own claims and are not adopted as this site’s findings.
维权网 — August 2026 monthly report, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026)
维权网《中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告（2026年8月31日）第131期（共1638人）, mirrored in English and Chinese. Lists 许恒奎 in the 7-years-6-months-sentence group (判刑7年6个月，29人） and in the report’s A–Z name index. Source for in-custody classification as of August 2026 and for the Chinese-character resolution (许， not 徐）. Source grade: monitoring organization; single-source roster fact. https://www.chinahrc.org/content/43092/
Source conflicts and limitations
The formal charge is not stated in any source located, and no court document has been published. No PRC official or state-media record of this case was found. Minghui is an advocacy outlet; its claims about the conduct of the proceedings and the treatment of the detainees are preserved here as attributed reports, not as independently verified facts. No second independent news account of the trial beyond Minghui and the monitoring database was found.
Person profile: Xu Hengkui (许恒奎)