Who she is
Yang Huifang (杨惠芳) is a woman from Kunming City in Yunnan Province. She was 56 when police seized her on a Kunming street on June 6, 2024, and 57 when a court in the same city sentenced her to three years in prison on May 1, 2025. She practices Falun Gong, the spiritual discipline that has been banned and suppressed in China since 1999. A monitoring report published August 31, 2026, still lists her as in custody.
Arrest and prosecution
According to reports by Minghui, a Falun Gong-affiliated news outlet, officers seized Ms. Yang on June 6, 2024 while she was making a phone call on the street. They took her home to search it, then brought her to the Xishan District Police Department. The arrest was part of a coordinated sweep that day — described in the reports as the “6.6 Project” — in which police detained more than two dozen practitioners across Kunming after months of monitoring.
The Xishan District Procuratorate twice returned the joint case against nine of those arrested for insufficient evidence before indicting them on February 8, 2025. They were tried at the Xishan District Court on March 26, 2025, and the court convicted all nine on May 1, 2025. Ms. Yang received a three-year prison term and a 10,000-yuan fine. The charge, as reported by Minghui, was “using a cult organization to undermine law enforcement.” No official court document for the sentencing has been publicly located; the procedural details rest on the outlet’s reporting.
Current situation
As of the most recent monthly roster available, dated August 31, 2026, Ms. Yang is recorded as serving her sentence in custody. The prison where she is being held has not been publicly identified, and the exact end date of her term has not been publicly documented — neither is stated here.
Media profile and archive
A chronological record of the reporting on this case, with source verification, is preserved in the companion media profile and archive.