Person profile: Zhang Shuhua (张淑华)
Media Profile & Archive — Zhang Shuhua (张淑华), born 1954, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yushu City, Jilin Province, and a former Yushu City street-office worker who was dismissed for her practice. She was sentenced to 3 years and 2 months in prison in 2024 and is reported to be serving her sentence in the Jilin Provincial Women’s Prison.
Case chronology (all details as reported by the cited sources)
- 1999–2000 — Repeated detentions around the start of the persecution of Falun Gong, including a one-year term of re-education through labor served at the Changchun Heizuizi labor camp, as documented in her Minghui case file.
- December 23, 2023 — Seized at home by Zhengyang Police Station officers in the evening. The detention center refused to admit her after a medical examination; she was released home.
- August 19, 2024 — Dehui Court personnel and Yushu City domestic-security officers delivered the written verdict at her home. Sentence: 3 years 2 months, 10,000-yuan fine; charge unspecified.
- January 13, 2025 — Taken into custody by Dehui Court and Yushu City domestic-security personnel; admitted to the Jilin Provincial Women’s Prison despite poor health. Reported sentence term through March 12, 2028.
Key sources
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record for 张淑华 / “Zhang Shuhua” (entered February 11, 2025): records name, birth year 1954, sex F, last detention January 13, 2025, charge unknown, sentence 3年2个月, release date March 12, 2028, location Jilin Provincial Women’s Prison. Database search page
- Minghui.org victim case file (library.minghui.org/victim/i72281.htm): detailed persecution history for Zhang Shuhua of Yushu City — dismissed from street-office work, detentions in 1999–2000, one year of re-education through labor, and the 2023–2025 sentencing events. Read the case file
Evidentiary limitations
- No court verdict or charge sheet has been seen; the criminal charge is reported as unknown. No charge is asserted here.
- Real-time custody status is not independently verified; the reported sentence term runs through March 12, 2028.
- No PRC official or state-media coverage of this case was found; PRC state media does not routinely report individual Falun Gong prosecutions.