Person profile: Zhang Qiping (张启平) — Sentenced to 3 Years 6 Months (Political Prisoner Record)
This archive preserves the documented media and monitoring-organization records for Zhang Qiping (张启平), a Linquan county, Anhui man reported to be a Falun Gong practitioner sentenced to three years and six months.
Record summary
Three source lineages document this case: a Minghui report (Chinese, February 18, 2025) with an English version (February 23, 2025), the CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database record (entry March 11, 2025), and the Rights Defense Network’s August 2026 monthly roster placing him in the 3.5-year sentence group. All agree on the anchors: male, 70s, Yangqiao town of Linquan county (Fuyang, Anhui), Falun Gong practitioner, detained February 18, 2024, sentenced to 3 years 6 months, held at Suzhou Prison in Anhui.
Media and monitoring records
- Minghui, “安徽法轮功学员张启平被秘密枉判三年半” (February 18, 2025). Account of the February 18, 2024 home raid, confiscation of computer, printer, and materials, detention at the Linquan County Detention Center with family visits denied, and the family’s later learning of the 3.5-year sentence and admission to Suzhou Prison. Read the report
- Minghui (English), “Anhui Man Secretly Sentenced to 3.5 Years for His Faith in Falun Gong” (February 23, 2025). Same case facts in English; the family confirmed the conviction and prison admission but knows nothing of the indictment, trial, or sentencing proceedings. Read the report
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — record for 张启平 / “Zhang Qiping” (entry March 11, 2025): male; last taken February 18, 2024; charge unknown; sentence 3 years 6 months; release date August 17, 2027; location Anhui Province Suzhou Prison. Database
- Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly report (August 31, 2026). 张启平 in the three-years-six-months group and the name index. Read the report
Chronology
- February 18, 2024 — Home raided; detained; taken to Linquan County Detention Center.
- Early 2025 — Family learns of the three-year-six-month sentence; admission to Suzhou Prison, Anhui.
- August 31, 2026 — Listed in the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131, 3.5-year sentence group, in custody.
- August 17, 2027 — Sentence end date per the CHRD database record.
Evidentiary limitations
- No source states the charge, the trial date, the court, or the sentencing date.
- The characterization of the sentencing as secret comes from the family’s account via Minghui.
- No PRC official or state-media record of the case was found.