Case summary
Zhang Lihua (张丽华), born 1966, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Honggang District, Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, formerly a driver in the Design Section of Daqing Oilfield’s No. 4 Oil Extraction Plant. The documented case record spans her November 2020 detention, a December 2022 sentence of three years and four months, a failed appeal in March 2023, a period of medical-parole custody outside prison, and her June 2025 imprisonment at the Heilongjiang Provincial Women’s Prison. The available sources are monitoring-organization records; no independent court document has been obtained.
Source chronology
- Rights Defense Network (维权网), Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Custody in Mainland China, Issue 131 (2026-08-31) — Chinese edition (https://www.chinahrc.org/content/43092/) and English edition (chinatruth.net mirror) both list Zhang Lihua in the “Sentenced to 3 years and 4 months, 11 people” statistical group. The report is the standing monthly statistical roster of in-custody political and conscience prisoners; no individual biography is given for Zhang in this issue. Relevance: the primary roster anchor for her current in-custody, sentenced status and for the Chinese-character identification.
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), Database of Prisoners of Conscience in Mainland China, record poc_z_00668 (tenchu.org/pocd/public/pocs/4540, updated 2026-03-17) — detailed case record: identity (female, born 1966, Daqing), Falun Gong practice since March 1997, 2020-11-22 detention with Wang Luhua, bail pending trial with 20,000-yuan deposits, 2022-12-30 sentence (3 years 4 months, 30,000-yuan fine, charge unknown), refusal to plead guilty, appeal, 2023-03-20 second-instance rejection and wage-card freeze, 2023–2025 medical-parole custody after failed physical examinations, 2025-06-16 imprisonment at Heilongjiang Provincial Women’s Prison, sentence ending 2028-10-15. Relevance: the only detailed, dated case profile; the basis for most factual statements in the Person page.
Source provenance and limitations
- The Rights Defense Network monthly report and the CHRD database are independent rights-monitoring organizations’ records, not official procedural documents. Allegations of mistreatment in the sources are the sources’ statements, not independently verified findings.
- The specific criminal charge against Zhang is unknown (the CHRD record lists charge as unknown).
- The CHRD record cites minghui.org generally as an other source without a specific article; no Zhang-specific Minghui article was identified in this research pass.
- The Chinese characters 张丽华 are established by positional equation of the report’s own Chinese and English editions (two independent positional anchors), cross-confirmed by the CHRD record’s matching identity details. No official document naming her was obtained.
- No statement by Chinese authorities on this individual case was found.
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