Media Profile & Archive — Zhang Xiuzhi (张秀芝)
This archive preserves the documented media and institutional record on the case of Zhang Xiuzhi (张秀芝), a Falun Gong practitioner from Nong’an County, Jilin Province, sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2021. Related: the person profile of Zhang Xiuzhi.
Source chronology
2021
- October 16, 2021 — World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG). Case notice “追查吉林省长春市农安县迫害张秀芝、蔡玉英等12名法轮功学员的责任人的通告”. Documents the July 15, 2020 mass arrest of 20+ Falun Gong practitioners in Nong’an County; the detention of those arrested at the Changchun City No. 4 and Nong’an County detention centers; the transfer of 12 practitioners to the Dehui City Procuratorate and Court; the April 2021 trial; the July 2021 verdicts (sentences 2–10 years; Zhang Xiuzhi 10 years); the appeal to the Changchun Intermediate People’s Court; and names the officials placed under investigation. Case notice
- December 31, 2021 — Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), Prisoners of Conscience database. Record for 张秀芝: female, born 1957, from Nong’an County, Jilin, Falun Gong practitioner; taken July 15, 2020; 10-year sentence; sentence to end July 14, 2030; charge and detention location unknown. CHRD database record (search by Chinese name)
2026
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly report. Lists 张秀芝 in the “sentenced to 10 years” (判刑10年) group among the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience reported as currently in custody. Issue 131 report
Source provenance and limitations
The case record rests on three independent institutional sources: the CHRD database (human-rights NGO), the WOIPFG case notice (Falun Gong-affiliated investigative organization), and the Rights Defense Network monthly roster (independent Chinese-language media). No PRC official or state-media source on this case has been found. The formal criminal charge is not publicly recorded. The outcome of the 2021 appeal is not publicly known. Descriptions of the proceedings as unlawful reflect the cited sources and are attributed to them.
Related cases in the same cohort
The July 15, 2020 Nong’an roundup and the 12-person Dehui trial also involve practitioners including Cai Yuying (蔡玉英), Feng Liqi (冯立齐), Gao Xiaoqi (高晓歧), Wu Dongmei (吴冬梅), Yu Jiaoru (于姣茹), Shan Weihe (单为和), Zhao Xiulan (赵秀兰), Sun Xiuying (孙秀英), Sun Fengxian (孙凤仙), Zhang Jingyuan (张敬元), and Lv Xiangfu (吕相富). Their records are handled separately; this archive does not merge their cases.