Zhao Guokun (赵国坤) — Falun Gong Practitioner Imprisoned in Jilin
Zhao Guokun (赵国坤), born in 1978, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Jilin City, Jilin Province. She began practicing Falun Gong in 1996, together with her father Zhao Xudong, her mother Li Yan, and her elder brother Zhao Guoxing.
On the evening of May 4, 2023, Zhao Guokun, her father Zhao Xudong (then 77 years old), and her brother Zhao Guoxing were detained at their home by officers from the Jilin City national-security unit and the Hadawan and Xinghua police stations. Zhao Guokun and her father were held at the Jilin City Detention Center; her brother was released the next day. Zhao Guokun was released on May 17, 2023, and her father at the end of that month. Her father died on August 10, 2023.
In July 2023 she received an indictment from the Changyi District Procuratorate and a residential-surveillance notice from the Changyi District Court. On the evening of December 6, 2023, she was detained again. According to documented accounts, she was secretly tried on April 15, 2024, and sentenced to three years and six months, with the reported term running to June 5, 2027. She was reported held at the Jilin Province Changchun Women’s Prison. The specific charge was not documented in the records located.
Her case was included in the mainland political-prisoner roster’s 3-year-6-month sentence band, and in the Prisoners of Conscience database with a 3-year-6-month term and release date of June 2027.