Yin Hong (尹红), born in 1971, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Changde, Hunan Province, and a former employee of the Agricultural Bank branch in Dingcheng district. She has been detained repeatedly since 1999 in connection with her practice, and in 2025 she was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.
Earlier detentions. According to accounts published by Minghui, a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet, and the case summary maintained by the advocacy group Chinese Political Prisoner Concern (CPPC), Yin was detained multiple times after 1999: she was held in “brainwashing” sessions four times, placed in a drug-rehabilitation facility once, and criminally detained twice. In 2002 she was sent to a two-year labor-camp term in connection with her practice, and after a December 2005 arrest she was sentenced in 2006 by the Wuling District Court in Changde to eight years in prison, which she served at the Hunan Women’s Prison in Changsha. In 2015 she was detained again; the Wuling District Court sentenced her to four years in 2016, the Changde Intermediate Court upheld the sentence on appeal in April 2017, and she was released in August 2019.
The current case. On December 25, 2023, Yin was criminally detained by the Wuling branch of the Changde Public Security Bureau and held at the Changde City Detention Center, according to the prisoner-of-conscience database maintained by Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD). On November 11, 2025, the Taoyuan County Court sentenced her to three years and nine months in prison with a fine of 6,000 yuan; the database’s narrative of this sentencing does not specify the charge, and her recorded term runs to September 24, 2027.
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Status. Yin Hong is reported to be serving her sentence; no release has been reported. No official court document for the 2025 case is publicly available. The account of her earlier detentions and sentences comes from Falun Gong-affiliated and advocacy sources and is attributed as such; the 2023 detention and 2025 sentencing details come from the CHRD database record.