Person profile: Zhang Cuifang — Political Prisoner Profile
This archive preserves the key source records documenting the case of Zhang Cuifang (张翠芳), a Falun Gong practitioner from Yulin, Shaanxi, sentenced to five years in prison in 2024.
Primary case records
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — Zhang Cuifang record (entry dated August 18, 2024). A structured prisoner record maintained by the Hong Kong–based rights monitor Chinese Human Rights Defenders, recording her gender, hometown (Yuyang District, Yulin, Shaanxi), Falun Gong practice since September 1998, her seizure on August 1, 2022, three trials before the Yuyang District Court, the five-year sentence (learned July 2024, charge and detention location unknown), and a sentence end date of July 31, 2027. Recorded at tenchu.org.
- 明慧网 (Minghui) — “陕西榆林市法轮功学员张翠芳被非法判五年” (July 7, 2024). A detailed Chinese-language report at minghui.org on her 2022 arrest, the three 2023 court appearances (including the May 1 hearing held without advance notice to her family), her earlier 2013 detention, 2014 home search, and 2017 arrest and 1.5-year sentence, as well as her family’s circumstances.
- Minghui (English) — “Shaanxi Woman Gets Another 5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong After Serving a 1.5-Year Prison Term” (July 9, 2024). The English edition of the July 7 report, at en.minghui.org, confirming the five-year sentence following the three March–May 2023 appearances and noting that the exact sentencing date and her current place of detention are unknown.
Rights-monitoring roster
- Rights Defense Network / 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” (chinahrc.org). The August 31, 2026 monthly report lists Zhang Cuifang in its group of prisoners sentenced to five years — consistent with the sentence reported by CHRD and Minghui.
Source note. Accounts of the arrests, searches, and hearings come from monitoring and advocacy sources and are attributed as such; they have not been independently verified. No official PRC court documents for the case were located.
Person profile: Zhang Cuifang — Political Prisoner Profile