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Zhou Huajian (周华建) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record for the case of Zhou Huajian (周华建), a Maoming resident sentenced to nine years' imprisonment in 2023 in connection with his practice of Falun Gong.
Case chronology (as reported):
- March 26, 2020 — detained in Maoming while distributing Falun Gong materials, per CHRD and Minghui.
- March 27, 2020 — placed under criminal detention by the Maonan branch of the Maoming Public Security Bureau.
- April 26, 2020 — arrest approved by the Maonan District procuratorate.
- July 17, 2020 — indicted by the Maonan District procuratorate.
- April 6, 2021 — first court hearing; suspended after the court required Zhou's lawyers to surrender their phones and computers.
- January 5, 2022 — second hearing.
- April 27, 2023 — further hearing held inside the detention center.
- July 10, 2023 — sentenced to nine years' imprisonment and fined 20,000 yuan by the Maonan District People's Court. The charge was not identified in the available reporting.
Media and source records:
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) — Prisoner of Conscience database entry for 周华建 / "ZHOU HUA JIAN" (record entered August 2, 2023). The database record gives his birth date (March 1951), hometown (Maoming, Guangdong), occupation (security guard), Falun Gong affiliation, detention and sentencing dates, the nine-year term, the detention facility (Maoming City No. 1 Detention Center), and a sentence expiry of March 25, 2029. It cites a Minghui report as its source.
- Minghui — "被非法关押三年余 茂名72岁周华建被冤判九年" (July 15, 2023). https://www.minghui.org/mmh/articles/2023/7/15/462997.html — A detailed Chinese-language report on Zhou's background, detention, the series of court hearings, and the nine-year sentence. The outlet covers Falun Gong persecution cases; its characterizations of the proceedings are its own.
Evidentiary notes: No court judgment, official record, or state-media item for this case was located. The charge is reported as unknown in all available sources. Custody status rests on monitoring-organization reporting, most recently the Rights Defense Network's Issue 131 (August 31, 2026), which lists Zhou among those in custody. No independent source beyond these was found despite targeted searches of human-rights databases and Chinese-language press.