Yang Lixia (杨丽霞) — Media Profile & Archive

October 9, 2026

Yang Lixia — Media Profile & Archive

Person profile: Yang Lixia — Political Prisoner Profile

This page preserves the dated public record on Yang Lixia (杨丽霞) of Tianjin — a Falun Gong practitioner sentenced to six years in April 2021 — with source attributions and the limits of what is known.

Case chronology

March 2, 2020 — Ms. Yang Lixia is arrested by officers from the Changhong Police Station in Tianjin. Police search her home and confiscate her computer, printer, laminator, Falun Gong books, banknotes printed with Falun Gong messages, and other belongings. (Minghui.org, 2021-05-06)
March 3, 2020 — Released on bail the next afternoon; police then monitor her daily life and do not allow her to go to work.
July 13, 2020 — Police inform her that her case has been submitted to the Nankai District Procuratorate; she is ordered to stay home and await the next step of the prosecution.
January 15, 2021 — Tried at the Nankai District Court.
April 26, 2021 — Sentenced to a six-year prison term; the court does not inform her lawyer of the sentencing hearing. Ms. Yang is taken back into custody; her family prepares to appeal.
August 31, 2026 — The Rights Defense Network’s monthly report of mainland political prisoners and prisoners of conscience (Issue 131) places Yang Lixia in its fixed-term-imprisonment section in the “sentenced to six years” group, in the 尹峰/杨丽霞/刘伯滨/何清香/周秀华/杨立君/金敏/魏彬 band (Chinese edition).

Case actors named in reporting

The Changhong Police Station (arrest); the Nankai District Procuratorate (case submission); the Nankai District Court (trial and sentencing). No individual officers, prosecutors, or judges are named in the reporting located.

Separate persons (DO NOT MERGE)

Yang Lixia, A’cheng City, Heilongjiang — husband Zhang Bingxiang was tortured to death for his Falun Gong practice; she reported being detained about eight years since 1999 and was sentenced to a six-year forced-labor-camp term on April 13, 2005 (Clearwisdom, November 18, 2010). Different province and timeline; different person.
Yang Lixia, Meizhou, Guangdong — wife of Bu Weiquan; sentenced to two years on March 29, 2013 by the Mei County Court (Minghui, May 11, 2013). Different province and sentence; different person.

Source provenance and limitations

All case facts come from a single outlet — Minghui.org, a Falun Gong-affiliated news service that has documented persecution cases since 1999. No corroborating source (court document, official procedural record, international media, or human-rights NGO report) has been located for Yang’s case specifically. The court did not inform her lawyer of the sentencing hearing, and the appeal outcome is not reported. The detention facility after the April 2021 verdict and the sentence end date are unattested — neither is inferred.

Consulate / official-source check

Ms. Yang is a PRC national; there is no consular dimension to the case. PRC government sources searched (court notices, state media): no official acknowledgment of her case found. Result: not found; the case record rests on Falun Gong-affiliated reporting.