Media Profile & Archive — Zhang Shufen (张淑芬). This archive preserves the source basis, the identification method, and the evidentiary limits behind the Zhang Shufen profile.
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Identification
The person documented here is Zhang Shufen (张淑芬), a Falun Gong practitioner from Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province, sentenced to three years in prison on April 16, 2024. The Chinese-character form of her name is established by a positional comparison of the English and Chinese editions of the same monitoring report: “Zhang Shufen” appears 8th of 110 names in the English edition’s “Sentenced to 3 years” group, and 张淑芬 appears at the identical 8th position of the Chinese edition’s 判刑3年110人 group, with matching A–Z index entries in both editions.
Source records
1. Minghui.org, “Three Jilin Women Sentenced to 3 to 7 Years for Their Faith,” April 26, 2024. Reports that three Liaoyuan City residents were sentenced for practicing Falun Gong: Ms. Gu Jiumei (53) and Ms. Liang Guijuan (47) received seven years each, and Ms. Zhang Shufen (62) received three years. All three were arrested by Taian Police Station officers on October 17, 2023. The Longshan District Court heard their joint case on March 26, 2024 and convicted them on April 16. The report also documents Ms. Zhang’s prior persecution history: practicing Falun Gong since October 1999; multiple arrests over 25 years; an 18-month sentence by the Longshan District Court on October 17, 2019, served at the Jilin Province Women’s Prison from November 5, 2019 until her release in April 2021. (Minghui.org is a Falun Gong-affiliated news site; its accounts of mistreatment are its own reporting and have not been independently verified by an official body.)
2. Rights Defense Network (维权网), monthly report Issue 131, English edition, August 31, 2026. Lists “Zhang Shufen” among 110 people recorded as “Sentenced to 3 years,” and carries her name in the report’s A–Z name index. This dated listing documents her as reported in custody with a three-year sentence as of August 31, 2026.
3. Rights Defense Network (维权网), monthly report Issue 131, Chinese edition, August 31, 2026. Lists 判刑3年，110人 with 张淑芬 at the same 8th position as the English edition’s “Zhang Shufen,” and carries 张淑芬 in the Chinese index. This is the basis for the Chinese-character form of her name used on this site.
Evidentiary limits
No formal charge text is stated in the available sources. No detention facility for the current three-year term is documented. Pretrial-detention credit and the exact term start date are not documented; the April 16, 2024 conviction date anchors the sentence. No official or state-media record of this case was found.