About the person: Wang Yihong (王义红) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Shuangcheng District, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, sentenced to ten years in prison in September 2018. See her full profile.
Media records (chronological)
1. Arrest (October 9, 2017)
“Arrested: Ms. Wang Yihong and Mr. Han Entong from Harbin City” — Minghui.org, November 3, 2017. Reports the 8:00 a.m. knock, the hours-long standoff, confiscation of two printers, books and a computer, transfer to Yaziquan Detention Center; biographical detail: 42, worked at Shuangcheng District Epidemic Prevention Station, divorced single mother of two, son with special needs.
URL: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2017/11/3/166274.html
2. Sentencing (September 2018)
“Additional Persecution News from China – October 18, 2018 (17 Reports)” — Minghui.org, November 5, 2018. Item 16 records that the Daoli District Court sentenced ten practitioners in September 2018, including Wang Yihong to ten years; lists all ten sentences (Ran Lingjun and Qiao Yan three years each; others one to two years).
URL: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2018/11/5/173144.html
3. Trial detail and prison conditions (2018–2022)
“Belated News: Mother of Two Teens Serving 10 Years for Her Faith Suffering with Chest Pain and Herniated Disc” — Minghui.org, October 3, 2022. The most detailed account: trial August 3, 2018 (hooded, shackled, ~1 hour); ten-year sentence in September 2018; transfer to Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison on October 9, 2018; ward movements (intensive training → 11th → 8th); forced unpaid labor; 2019 family visit report of chest pain and herniated disc; 120-yuan monthly spending cap; visits suspended during pandemic, monthly calls only; current condition unknown.
URL: https://projectshield.en.minghui.org/html/articles/2022/10/3/204125p.html
4. Continued imprisonment (2024)
“Additional Persecution News from China – May 19, 2024 (17 Reports)” — Minghui.org, May 27, 2024. Item 11 confirms she was still imprisoned and had been transferred from Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison to Dongfeng Prison in Harbin City.
URL: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2024/5/27/218331.html
Source provenance and limitations
All four records are from Minghui.org (Falun Dafa / Falun Gong-affiliated). No official court documents, no state-media reporting, and no international-media coverage of this case were located. Minghui is the established independent Chinese-language monitor of Falun Gong cases; its reporting has not been independently corroborated for this case.
Known inconsistencies and caveats
- Two Minghui roundup summaries mislabel the trial date as the sentencing date: an October 2022 roundup says she was “sentenced… on August 3, 2022” (should be 2018, and August 3 was the trial date); a May 2024 roundup says she was “sentenced… on August 3, 2018.” The detailed October 2022 feature article — the most thorough account — states the trial was August 3, 2018 and sentencing was in September 2018, consistent with the November 2018 sentencing roundup.
- Minghui once describes her as “also known as Wang Jie” (王杰); this alternate name is unverified.
Consulate / official-source check
Not relevant / not found: domestic detention of a Chinese national; no consular dimension. No PRC official or state-media coverage of this case located. No foreign-embassy statements located.