Guangzhou/Beijing, 18 September 2026 The five-year prison term imposed upon Chinese independent journalist and women's-rights advocate Sophia Huang Xueqin ended on Friday. The judgment in her case gave 18 September 2026 as her release date after crediting the time she had spent in custody since September 2021. She was also sentenced to four years' deprivation of political rights. The official English text of China's Criminal Law hosted by the Supreme People's Court says that