Zhang Ximei (张喜梅） — Media Profile & Archive
For her biographical profile, see the companion Person Profile.
This archive preserves the published source record for Zhang Ximei (张喜梅）, a retired worker from Baoding, Hebei Province, currently serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence in connection with her practice of Falun Gong.
Source chronology
April 2, 2025 — Minghui (明慧网）: “保定市法轮功学员张喜梅、支占民被非法判刑”
The first detailed published account of the case. Reports that Zhang Ximei and fellow practitioner Zhi Zhanmin were seized at their homes on April 9, 2024, by Jingxiu district police in Baoding, held at the Baoding City Detention Center, tried by the Gaoyang County Court, and sentenced — Zhang Ximei to three and a half years with a 10,000-yuan fine. Notes that both defendants appealed. Also gives biographical detail: 58 years old at the time, retired from the Tianwei factory. Source type: independent Chinese-language media (Falun Gong-affiliated). Verification: read in full; case facts corroborated by the CHRD prisoner record below.
April 8, 2025 — Minghui English: “Two Previously Imprisoned Hebei Residents Convicted Again For Practicing Falun Gong”
English translation of the April 2 report, with added background: Zhang Ximei’s earlier three-year-two-month sentence (November 2019) and a ten-day detention in October 2022. Source type: translation of the canonical Chinese article. Verification: read in full; treated as the English companion of the same report. link
May 20, 2025 — Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database: record for 张喜梅 / Zhang Ximei
Individual prisoner record: born 1967, female, Baoding, Hebei; retired Tianwei factory worker; Falun Gong practitioner; taken into custody April 9, 2024; sentence 3 years 6 months; sentence ends October 8, 2027; held at Baoding City Detention Center; sentenced by Gaoyang County Court; fine 10,000 yuan; charge listed as unknown. The record cites the Minghui April 2025 report as its source. Source type: recognized human-rights NGO monitoring database. Verification: retrieved by direct database query on October 10, 2026; the only 张喜梅 record in the 4,372-record database. CHRD database search
August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network （维权网） prisoner list, Issue 131
Lists 张喜梅 in the group of 126 people sentenced to 3 years and 6 months, and in the report’s A–Z master index. Source type: established independent Chinese-language monitoring publication. Verification: read in the report’s Chinese and English editions; the listing matches the sentence recorded in the CHRD database.
Evidentiary limitations
- The specific criminal charge against Zhang Ximei is recorded as unknown in the CHRD database; neither Minghui report states a charge.
- The outcome of the appeal to the Baoding City Intermediate Court has not been confirmed in any source reviewed.
- No official court judgment or detention notice for the case has been located; the detailed narrative rests on the Minghui reports, with the sentence and custody facts corroborated by the CHRD prisoner record.
Related profile: Zhang Ximei (张喜梅）.