Tong Ruiqing (仝瑞卿), born in 1945, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Daming County, Handan City, Hebei Province. Rights Defense Network / 维权网 Issue 131 dated August 31, 2026 lists him among reported in-custody cases in the four-years-and-six-months fixed-term subgroup.
Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ prisoner-of-conscience database reports that Tong was detained on July 18, 2022 and held at the Wandi Detention Center in Daming County. It reports that the Daming County Court sentenced him on May 13, 2023 to four years and six months in prison and that he was transferred to Jidong Prison in Tangshan, Hebei.
The same database records earlier punishment connected to his Falun Gong practice, including two years of re-education through labor in 2003 and a seven-year prison sentence following a 2011 detention.
Status and evidence limits
The database gives January 17, 2027 as the end of the current term, and the August 31, 2026 roster still lists Tong among reported in-custody cases. The criminal charge for the 2023 sentence was not reported. No independently obtained court judgment or official prison record was located.
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