Zhao Changyan (赵长艳) — Media Profile & Archive
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Case chronology
- March 16, 2023 — Zhao Changyan visits Jiang Yanping’s home in Shulan City and is detained in an ongoing police operation; she is criminally detained and held at the Jilin Detention Center. (Minghui; CHRD case record)
- July 27, 2023 — Jiang Yanping, Zhao Changyan and Liu Minjie are tried at the Shulan Court. (Minghui, Feb 4, 2024)
- February 2024 — It is learned that Jiang Yanping was sentenced to five years and Zhao Changyan to three years and six months; Zhao’s charge and post-transfer detention location are not recorded. (Minghui; CHRD case record entered March 14, 2024)
- August 31, 2026 — Listed as in custody in the “sentenced to 3 years 6 months” band of the Rights Defense Network’s prisoner roster. (维权网 Issue 131)
Source records
- Minghui, “吉林舒兰市三位善良妇女被非法判刑” (February 4, 2024) — case narrative: detention circumstances, trial date, sentences, ages and communities of the three women. https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2024/2/4/472140.html
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database, individual record for 赵长艳 (entered 2024-03-14) — identity anchors (name, birth year 1958, Shulan City, Jilin), detention date, 3年6个月 sentence, projected term through 2026-09-15; charge and detention location recorded as unknown. Database query page: https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/dosearch
- 维权网 Issue 131 prisoner roster (August 31, 2026) — “sentenced to 3 years 6 months, 126 people” band; in-custody classification.
Provenance and limitations
- The case narrative rests on one independent Chinese-language media report (Minghui, which covers Falun Gong cases from a practitioner-sympathetic perspective; its characterizations such as “illegal” are the outlet’s framing) plus the CHRD case record, which independently confirms the name, birth year, city, detention date and sentence.
- No court judgment, official notice, or state-media account of the case has been located. The formal charge and post-transfer detention location are unknown.
- The community name differs between the two sources (镇北社区 vs 中心社区); the discrepancy is preserved here rather than reconciled.
- Name-collision exclusions: not the same person as 赵春艳 (Jixi), 赵兰英 (Harbin), or 赵湛波 (Shenyang).