Hu Yulian (胡玉莲) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province and a retired Daqing Oilfield employee. Minghui reports that she was sentenced in April 2022 to five years in prison and fined 20,000 yuan.
2021–2022 case
Minghui reports that police pressured Hu in November 2021 to sign a statement renouncing Falun Gong. On November 20, she was taken to the Dumeng Detention Center after police told her she needed another COVID test. Her case was later sent for prosecution.
Hu stood trial at the Ranghulu District Court on January 18, 2022, represented herself and entered a not-guilty plea, according to Minghui. The outlet reports that on April 26, 2022 the court sentenced her to five years in prison and imposed a 20,000-yuan fine. A later report states that she was transferred to Harbin Women’s Prison on June 16, 2022.
Status and evidence limits
Rights Defense Network Issue 131, dated August 31, 2026, lists Hu in the five-year-sentence custody group. No appeal outcome, exact birth date or sentence end date is established. No public court judgment or independent case record was located.
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