Media Profile & Archive — Zhang Xuechun (张雪春）
This archive preserves the documented media and institutional record on the case of Zhang Xuechun (张雪春）, a rights activist from Shenyang, Liaoning, detained in August 2017 after joining a collective petition in Beijing. Related: the person profile of Zhang Xuechun.
Source chronology
2017
- August 25, 2017 — 访民之声 (Petitioners’ Voice). “辽宁张雪春参加集体访被以’聚众扰乱社会秩序罪’刑拘”. Reports that the Shenyang Public Security Bureau’s Heping Branch placed Zhang Xuechun under criminal detention on August 11, 2017, on suspicion of “gathering to disrupt social order”; she was held at the Shenyang City No. 1 Detention Center. Based on the account of her daughter Zhang Xin: police had surveilled the family’s home on the night of August 10; Zhang’s phone was seized; the detention related to the July 31 collective petition in Beijing; the family retained a lawyer who was blocked from meeting Zhang at the detention center. Report
- September 21, 2017 — 民生观察 (Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch). “集体控告公安局违法 辽宁访民张雪春被逮捕” (by 访民之声， carried by 民生观察）. Reports that the procuratorate approved Zhang Xuechun’s arrest on September 13, 2017, and that she remained at the Shenyang City No. 1 Detention Center; states that the police regarded her as an organizer of the collective complaint to the Ministry of Public Security and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate; notes four refused lawyer meetings and that the family planned to retain counsel again. Report
- Recorded December 18, 2019 — Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), Prisoners of Conscience database. Record for 张雪春 / ZHANG XUE CHUN: female, rights activist, WeChat name 海燕； detained August 11, 2017 by the Shenyang PSB Heping Branch; arrest approved September 13, 2017; held at the Shenyang City No. 1 Detention Center; charge listed as disrupting order of a public place; no sentence; no release date; no news since. CHRD database record (search by Chinese name)
2026
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network (维权网）, Issue 131 monthly report. Lists 张雪春 in the “detained without trial” (羁押未判） group, Liaoning, among the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience reported as currently in custody. Issue 131 report
Source provenance and limitations
The 2017 reporting comes from two independent Chinese-language rights outlets (访民之声 and 民生观察）, both drawing on the family account; the CHRD database (human-rights NGO) provides the institutional record. No PRC official or state-media source on this case has been found. There is no public record of a trial, sentence, or release; the family-based reports cover only the detention and arrest stages. Current custody status cannot be independently verified.
Related persons
Zhang Xin (张鑫）, her daughter, is quoted in the 2017 reports as the family spokesperson. The roster neighbors in the Liaoning group — including Zhang Naijun (张乃君） — are separate cases and are not merged here.