This archive collects reporting on Xia Ruiying (夏瑞迎), a Falun Gong practitioner from Yuncheng County, Shandong Province, sentenced in December 2024 to three and a half years in prison. The chronology below preserves source attribution and evidentiary limits.
Person profile: Xia Ruiying (夏瑞迎)
Case chronology
- May 8, 2010 — Minghui. Reported to police while distributing Falun Gong materials in Dingchang Township, Yuncheng County; taken into custody and home searched.
- April–May 2024 — Minghui. Police reportedly surveilled Xia and Cui Jun and installed a location tracker on Xia’s electric bike.
- July 10, 2024 — Minghui. Arrested with seven other practitioners while studying Falun Gong teachings together; homes were reportedly searched and books, materials, computers, and printers confiscated.
- December 2024 — Minghui. Yuncheng County Primary Court convicted the eight. Xia received three and a half years and a 10,000-yuan fine.
- May 10, 2025 — Minghui. Appeals reported unsuccessful.
- June 24, 2025 — Prisoners of Conscience Database. Record updated with Xia listed in prison and a release date of June 8, 2028. The date is the database’s listed value, not independent confirmation.
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network roster. Xia appears in the current-custody snapshot.
Source links
- Minghui, May 10, 2025
- Minghui, May 29, 2010
- Minghui, January 25, 2026
- Prisoners of Conscience Database — Shandong
Context and limitations
The eight sentenced in the same case were Cui Jun, Chen Chengge, Zhu Lingdian, Jia Suqin, Xia Ruiying, Hou Yuchun, Fan Airong, and Chen Fengjuan. Their names are included only as case context; facts are not transferred between individual profiles. No criminal code article is asserted here, and no sentence end date is independently computed. The database’s listed release date and the August 2026 roster entry remain dated source claims.