杨志华 (Yang Zhihua) — Media Profile & Archive
See also: 杨志华 (Yang Zhihua) — Political Prisoner Profile.
This archive preserves the media and source record for 杨志华 (Yang Zhihua), a Falun Gong practitioner from Ningjin County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, sentenced to one year and six months in April 2026 and listed as an in-custody political prisoner as of August 31, 2026.
Case chronology
- August 2025 — Street cameras in Jinzhou City record a motorcyclist putting up Falun Gong slogans; police trace the motorcycle. (Minghui, 2026-04-17)
- September 6, 2025 — Officers raid Yang Zhihua’s home in Xicaogu Village; he is absent; his wife and son are briefly detained and released September 16. (Minghui, 2026-04-17)
- September 8, 2025 — Yang is taken into custody by Sizhilan Township police. (Minghui, 2026-04-17; Minghui EN, 2026-02-12; CHRD database record)
- September 10, 2025 — Moved to Shijiazhuang No. 2 Detention Center; case forwarded to the Jinzhou City Procuratorate, then the Jinzhou City Court. (Minghui, 2026-04-17)
- January 28, 2026 — Trial at the Jinzhou City Court. (Minghui, 2026-04-17; Minghui EN, 2026-02-12)
- April 2026 — Sentenced to one year and six months; charge not stated in available sources. (Minghui, 2026-04-17; CHRD database record)
- Mid-April 2026 — Transferred from the detention center to prison: Shijiazhuang Prison on April 16 per the CHRD record; Jidong Prison on April 17 per the Minghui report. The two sources disagree on the facility; both agree on the timing.
- March 7, 2027 — Recorded end of prison term. (CHRD database record)
- August 31, 2026 — Listed as an in-custody political prisoner (under-two-year sentence group) in the Rights Defense Network monthly report. (维权网 Issue 131)
Source records
1. Minghui.org (Chinese), April 17, 2026 — “河北宁晋县杨志华被非法判刑入狱” (https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2026/4/17/508874.html). Correspondent report from Hebei; the full case narrative: home village, flour-mill occupation, August 2025 slogan incident, September 6 raid, September 8 detention, January 28, 2026 trial, 1.5-year sentence, transfer to Jidong Prison on April 17. Read in full on October 10, 2026. Note: Minghui is a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; legal characterizations in the report are the outlet’s and are not independently verified.
2. Minghui.org (English), February 12, 2026 — “Additional Persecution News from China – January 30, 2026 (11 Reports): ‘[Ningjin County, Hebei Province] Mr. Yang Zhihua Tried in Court’” (http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2026/2/12/232643.html). Reports the January 28, 2026 trial and September 8, 2025 arrest. Identity anchors (name, county, arrest date, trial date and court) confirmed against the Chinese sources. (Its stated age of “50” is not consistent with the 1969 birth year given in the Chinese-language sources; the birth year is the firmer anchor.)
3. CHRD political-prisoner database (tenchu.org) — 杨志华 record, entered 2026-05-07. A name search of the database on October 10, 2026 returned exactly this one record. Confirms: 杨志华 / “Yang Zhihua”, male, born 1969, seized 2025-09-08, sentence 1年6个月 (“1 year 6 months”), term to 2027-03-07, transferred to Shijiazhuang Prison 2026-04-16. Facility conflicts with item 1 — both attributions retained.
4. Rights Defense Network (维权网) monthly report, August 31, 2026 (Issue 131) — lists 杨志华 / “Yang Zhihua” among 52 people in the under-two-year sentence group, classified in custody.
Exclusions
Two 2013 Shenyang “Yang Zhihua” items (romanization-only) are different people — recorded as wrong-person exclusions, not sources.
Evidentiary limitations
The charge of conviction is not stated in any available source. The receiving prison (Shijiazhuang Prison vs. Jidong Prison) is reported differently by two sources; unresolved. No family interviews, court judgment, or state-media coverage has been located. This case is distinct from the similarly romanized roster names Yang Zhijin (杨治金) and Yang Zhixiang (杨芝祥), who are different individuals; no merger with any other record should be made.