Yang Lijun (杨立君)
Yang Lijun is a resident of Jixi City in Heilongjiang Province and a practitioner of Falun Gong. She was sentenced to six years in prison in January 2022.
Ms. Yang, who lives in Jixi’s Hengshan District, was arrested on January 26, 2022. Reporting by Minghui, a Falun Gong-affiliated news service, states that she was sentenced to six years in prison, with the sentence reported in the outlet’s April 2022 persecution digest.
The reporting located for her case is limited. The digest item does not give a trial court, a detention facility, or any further case detail. The reason for detention (practicing Falun Gong) is the outlet’s account and is presented as reported, not as an independently verified official finding. No official Chinese government or state-media record of her case has been located. The end date of the sentence is not stated in the sources located, and no release has been reported.
Sources for this profile
- Minghui.org, “Additional Persecution News from China – April 27, 2022 (21 Reports)” (May 12, 2022) — http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2022/5/12/200622.html — Jixi City, Heilongjiang item: Ms. Yang Lijun of the Hengshan District arrested January 26, 2022, sentenced to six years in prison.
- Minghui sentencing data table, “Reported in April 2022: 57 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced to Prison” (May 2022) — https://daiphap.org/en.Minghui.org/u/files/attachments/20220509-442036–Apr_sentencing.pdf — entry #11: 杨立君 / Yang Lijun, female, Heilongjiang, Jixi, sentenced January 2022, six years.
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