Yuan Qiongxiu / 袁琼秀 — Media Archive
This archive documents the case of Yuan Qiongxiu / 袁琼秀. It preserves the documented record of a Falun Gong practitioner from Suining, Sichuan, sentenced to four years in prison and currently held at the Chengdu Women’s Prison.
Documented record, in chronological order
- September 2002 — Detained for about 115 days after posting informational materials with two others; released after her family paid money. (Minghui victim file.)
- Record created December 18, 2019 — The CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database lists Yuan Qiongxiu (romanized “Yuan Qiongli”), born November 1953, female, of Suining, Sichuan: detained June 6, 2018; sentenced to 2 years 6 months; released December 5, 2020; charge listed as unknown.
- April 2019 — Tried at the Chuanshan District Court on April 10; sentenced to two years and six months; transferred to the Chengdu Women’s Prison (Longquanyi) on April 23, 2019. (Minghui victim file; sentence corroborated by the CHRD record.)
- April 18, 2024 — Taken away again; held at the Suining detention center; case sent to the Chuanshan District procuratorate. (Minghui victim file.)
- January 2025 (reported) — Sentenced to four years in prison; transferred to the Chengdu Women’s Prison (Longquanyi); sentence runs to April 17, 2028. (CHRD record; sentence and facility corroborated by the Minghui victim file, updated March 7, 2025.)
- Roster listing, August 31, 2026 — The 维权网 (Rights Defense Network) Issue 131 political-prisoner report lists 袁琼秀 in the “sentenced to 4 years” band of 171 people, with matching neighbors in the Chinese and English editions.
Source provenance and grading
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database (tenchu.org) — human-rights NGO prisoner database; individual-record source cited by the 维权网 Issue 131 report. Verified: CSV record read directly on October 9, 2026 (exactly one record for the name; no collisions).
- Minghui victim file i120690 — Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; victim biography with case chronology and linked reports. Verified: page opened and read on October 9, 2026. Its advocacy framing is attributed; factual anchors (dates, sentences, detention sites, birth month) corroborate the CHRD record.
- Related reports linked from the victim file (14 items) — referenced from the file but not opened individually; flagged for downstream verification.
Contradictions and evidence gaps
- The CHRD database romanizes the name “Yuan Qiongli” while the Chinese characters 袁琼秀 romanize “Qiongxiu” (Minghui uses “Qiongxiu”). The Chinese characters, birth month, city, and case anchors match; treated as a database romanization inconsistency, not a different person.
- The formal charge is not specified in any available source.
- No PRC court document, official record, or state-media coverage of this case was found in public sources.
- Her exact date of sentencing for the current 4-year term is reported only as “January 2025” via the victim file; the sentence end date (April 17, 2028) is from the CHRD record.
Full person profile: Yuan Qiongxiu / 袁琼秀