Person profile: Dong Yuyu (董郁玉)
Dong Yuyu — Media Profile & Archive
- February 2022: detained in Beijing while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat.
- November 2024: Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court convicted Dong of espionage and sentenced him to seven years.
- November 2025: Beijing High Court rejected his appeal, according to CPJ and family statements.
- March 2026: family was informed that Dong had been transferred to Chaobai Prison in Tianjin, CPJ reported.
- May 2026: CPJ reported, citing Dong’s son, that he had been hospitalized and that imaging found a lung mass requiring further examination.
Evidence note: court outcomes are reported by CPJ and other news organizations; medical information is attributed to Dong’s family through CPJ. FreeChina.live does not independently verify medical findings.