Zheng Cuilan (郑翠兰) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record behind the Zheng Cuilan (郑翠兰) profile: the reporting covers her June 2024 arrest in Kunming’s “6.6 Project” sweep, her March 2025 trial and May 2025 three-year sentence, and her earlier detentions in 2004 and 2014, with provenance and limitations noted. Sources are graded; allegations remain attributed rather than stated as fact.
Minghui.org — “Nine Yunnan Residents Sentenced to Prison for Practicing Falun Gong” (May 31, 2025)
(Opened and read in full: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2025/5/31/228302.html). The outlet reports that Ms. Zheng Cuilan, 78, was sentenced to 3 years in prison plus a 10,000-yuan fine on May 1, 2025 by the Xishan District Court (judge Yang Hui); that she was arrested on June 6, 2024 in the “6.6 Project” sweep; that prosecutor Zou Chengyun returned the case twice before indicting her on February 8, 2025; and that she was tried on March 26, 2025 on a reported charge of “using a cult organization to undermine law enforcement,” alongside co-defendants Liu Xiaoping, Ma Ling, Li Huanzhen, and Yang Huifang. Source grade: VERIFIED — Falun Gong-affiliated subject-community outlet; the factual details are corroborated by the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 roster 3-year-sentence band.
Minghui.org — “Reported in May 2025: 79 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Faith” (June 12, 2025)
(Opened and read in full: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2025/6/12/228469.html). A monthly roundup that repeats the May 2025 sentencing case block verbatim and adds statistical context. Source grade: DUPLICATE — a syndication record of the item above, not an independent account.
Minghui.org — “Kunming City, Yunnan Province: 25 Arrested in One Day for Practicing Falun Gong, 8 Now Facing Indictment” (July 23, 2024)
(Opened and read in full: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2024/7/23/219167p.html). The outlet reports that Ms. Zheng Cuilan, 77, was deceived into going to her local street committee — told rice was being distributed — and arrested there, her home raided, and she was taken to the Xishan District Police Department, as part of the June 6, 2024 “6.6 Project” mass arrest of 25 practitioners after six months of monitoring. Source grade: VERIFIED — Falun Gong-affiliated subject-community outlet; the co-arrestee names match the Issue 131 3-year-sentence cohort.
Minghui.org — “Latest News from China — May 24, 2004” (June 2, 2004)
(Opened and read in full: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2004/6/2/48794.html). The outlet reports that Ms. Zheng Cuilan of Kunming, 54, was arrested on April 21, 2004 at a vegetable market after a patrol guard claimed she was promoting Falun Gong; that Guandu Branch police ransacked her home and held her in detention for over 20 days; that she was sentenced to 3 years of forced labor at the Yunnan Province Female Forced Labor Camp; and that she was on hunger strike since May 12, 2004 to protest the sentence. Source grade: VERIFIED — Falun Gong-affiliated subject-community outlet.
Minghui.org — “Latest News From China – May 14, 2004” (May 28, 2004)
(Opened and read in full: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2004/5/28/48635p.html). Corroborates the 2004 arrest and detention, reporting the arrest date as April 23, 2004 (a one-day variance from the item above), the Bailongsi Detention Center detention, a dozen Guandu Branch policemen, and personal belongings confiscated without receipt. Source grade: VERIFIED — Falun Gong-affiliated subject-community outlet; the arrest event is identical to the item above.
Minghui.org — “Additional Persecution News from China – August 1, 2014 (23 Reports)” (August 14, 2014)
(Opened and read in full: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2014/8/14/2500.html). A single-line item reporting that Ms. Zheng Cuilan, about 60, of Kunming City, Yunnan Province, was arrested on July 30, 2014 — consistent with the same person on location and approximate age. Source grade: VERIFIED — Falun Gong-affiliated subject-community outlet; limited to the one reported fact.
维权网 — August 2026 monthly report, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026)
维权网《中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告（2026年8月31日）第131期（共1638人）, mirrored in English and Chinese. Lists 郑翠兰 / “Zheng Cuilan” in the “sentenced to 3 years” band. The report supplies no biographical detail beyond the sentence and custody status; it is the source for her classification as in custody as of August 2026. Source grade: monitoring organization; single-source roster fact.
Source conflicts and limitations
Ages are approximate across reports (54 in 2004; about 60 in 2014; 77–78 in 2024–25) — an arithmetic drift of about 3 years treated as reporting approximation, not an identity conflict. The 2004 arrest date is reported as April 21 in one account and April 23 in another; the event is the same. The facility where Zheng is serving the 2025 sentence has not been reported. Minghui is a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet: its normative characterizations (“illegal,” “wrongful,” “unconstitutional”) are its own and are not independently verified; reported facts are corroborated across multiple Minghui reports and, for the sentence, by the Rights Defense Network roster. The ZH characters 郑翠兰 rest on the Issue 131 roster’s own ZH edition positional equation. No PRC court judgment, procuratorate notice, or state-media report on the 2025 sentencing was located; no consular or diplomatic attention was found.
Person profile: Zheng Cuilan (郑翠兰)