Person profile: Zhang Ruiping (张瑞萍)
This archive preserves the documented media and monitoring-organization records for the case of Zhang Ruiping (张瑞萍), a Falun Gong practitioner from Yangquan, Shanxi, detained at home on April 19, 2023, tried by the Pingding County Court on September 27, 2023, and sentenced to three years and six months in December 2023. She appealed. In January 2024 she was transferred to the Shanxi Provincial Women’s Prison; the reported term end is November 4, 2026.
Media records
- Minghui — “山西阳泉市善良妇女张瑞萍被枉判三年半” (December 8, 2023). Practitioner-run Chinese-language media (established monitoring outlet for Falun Gong cases; the outlet’s framing language not independently verified). Establishes: identity (name, birth February 1968, Yangquan), practice history (since April 1999), April 19, 2023 home detention, May 5 transfer to detention center, May 19 arrest approval, September 27 trial with not-guilty defense plea, December 2023 sentence (3.5 years), appeal filed. Also carries attributed (unverified independently) prior history: 2004 detention, 2015 detention, 2017–2022 harassment. Read the report
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — record for 张瑞萍 / Zhang Ruiping (entered January 29, 2024). Recognized human-rights NGO database. Establishes: identity anchors (name ZH/EN, birth 1968.2, gender F, Yangquan, Shanxi), detention chain (May 5 criminal detention, May 19 arrest, September 27 trial, December 2023 sentence of 3 years 6 months, charge unknown, January 2024 transfer to Shanxi Provincial Women’s Prison), reported term end November 4, 2026. Links to the Minghui item above as its source. Database search page
- Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly report (August 31, 2026). Established independent Chinese-language monitoring organization. Establishes: 张瑞萍’s inclusion among in-custody prisoners serving 3 years 6 months; roster-level corroboration of the sentence and current-custody classification. Read the report
Evidence limitations
- Single-case media coverage: one detailed case report (Minghui) plus the CHRD database record that cites it. No mainstream international or domestic media coverage found.
- Prior-history claims (2004/2015 detentions, 2017–2022 harassment) rest on Minghui alone.
- No court document, verdict, or official procedural record is publicly available.
- No photographs of the subject found in public sources.
- PRC state media, court websites, and official channels carry no record of this case. No consular matter identified.