Profile: Zhang Xiaohua (张晓华)
Media and document record — Zhang Xiaohua (张晓华)
This archive preserves the dated media and document record for Zhang Xiaohua (张晓华), the retired Hubei University librarian from Wuhan sentenced to four years in prison in a Falun Gong-related case, in chronological order. Each entry states what the source establishes and where it is limited.
2000–2017 — earlier persecution documented
Minghui victim library, “张晓华” profile (victim/i76666.htm; updated January 28, 2026) — opened and read in full. The profile, maintained by the Falun Dafa outlet Minghui, documents more than fourteen detentions since July 1999: the October 2000 slogan-posting seizure and eighteen months at the Hewan labor camp; the 2004 Tangxunhu brainwashing-center detention; the 2009 Zhongxiang detention; the two 2013 Wuhan seizures and detentions; and the February 26, 2014 four-year sentence by the Caidian District Court, served at the Wuhan Women’s Prison until her release on September 18, 2017. The profile’s characterizations of the detentions (e.g. “illegal”) are the outlet’s own; the dates, places, and institutions are the factual record it preserves.
November 2023 – February 2024 — the events leading to the current detention
Minghui victim library, “张晓华” profile (same page). The profile reports that on the afternoon of November 25, 2023, Zhang and eight other practitioners were seized at a fellow practitioner’s home in Wuchang district and taken to police stations, and that she was picked up by family that night. It further reports that around the 2024 Lunar New Year she was searched and placed in a Wuhan “brainwashing center”; that in February 2024 Xujiapeng police station officers raided her home in the Liujahe residential area and took her into secret custody without informing her family of her location; and that she was subsequently held at the Ankang Hospital facility in Dongxihu and then in secret at a medical facility under the Wuhan No. 1 Detention Center. The profile also lists related Minghui news reports on these events.
February 2025 — four-year sentence learned
Minghui victim library, “张晓华” profile (same page). The profile states that on February 11, 2025 it was learned that a local court had sentenced her late in the previous year to four years in prison, with a fine of 10,000 yuan. No court document is reproduced; the sentencing court is not named.
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), Prisoners of Conscience database — Zhang Xiaohua (张晓华) record (record entered March 11, 2025). The database lists Zhang Xiaohua, female, born 1950, from Wuhan, Hubei, a retired Hubei University librarian and Falun Gong practitioner; detained February 2024; sentenced to four years with the term running to February 2028; charge and place of detention unknown; family visits denied. It cites the Minghui victim page as its source.
August 2026 — current-custody listing
Rights Defense Network, Issue 131 monthly report (August 31, 2026). The report lists 张晓华 / Zhang Xiaohua in its 判刑4年 (sentenced to four years) group of prisoners reported as currently in custody — consistent with the four-year sentence recorded by CHRD. The listing is a roster classification, not a court document.
Same-name records that are NOT this person
CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — Zhang Xiaohua (张晓华), Kunming record (entered May 9, 2022). A different person: born 1955, from Kunming, Yunnan, detained August 16, 2021, sentenced to three years and six months, released February 15, 2025. Distinguished by sentence, province, dates, and release status; never to be merged with the Wuhan record.
Minghui (English), “Crimes Committed in the Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp” (October 2008). Mentions a “Mr. Zhang Xiaohua from Linghai City” detained around the 2008 Beijing Olympics — male, Liaoning, 2008. Not this person; name romanization only.
What this archive does not contain
No court judgment, indictment, or state-media account of the current case has been located. The charge, the sentencing court, and the present place of detention are all recorded as unknown. Nothing here establishes her current health or conditions beyond the dated reports above.