Yu Chuyan （于春艳） — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record for Yu Chuyan （于春艳）, a Falun Gong practitioner who rented a room near the Wanfeng market in the Saertu District of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, born in 1962, sentenced to three years and ten months in prison around October 2025. Some English sources render her name “Yu Chunyan”; the Chinese name is identical — one person, not two. Sources are listed in chronological order with verification notes. Falun Gong-affiliated sources are attributed as such throughout.
Identification
Yu Chuyan （于春艳）, female, born in 1962, is a Falun Gong practitioner who rented a room near the Wanfeng market in the Saertu District of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. The Chinese form of her name is confirmed by positional alignment between the English and Chinese editions of the 2026 practitioner-imprisonment tally and is used independently by the CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database and Minghui. She is not the same person as Yu Chunxiang （于春香） of Dalian, whose name appears next to hers in the tally.
Status
Sentenced to three years and ten months around October 2025 by the Ranghulu Court, Daqing; term runs to February 8, 2029. Still held at the Daqing Detention Center as of November 2025. No release reported. The criminal charge is not stated in any source.
Case chronology
- October 20, 2006 — Detained at her snack shop in the Guangsha residential area by Ranghulu Longgang branch police; home searched.
- Late 2006 – early 2007 — Held at the Daqing Detention Center for more than five months; subjected to torture including forced pepper-water ingestion after refusing to name her materials’ source; hunger strike, force-fed.
- 2007 — Sentenced by the Ranghulu Court to 3 years; served at the Heilongjiang Women’s Prison.
- April 9, 2025 — Three fellow practitioners visiting her home; Saertu branch police broke in and detained all four; computers, printers, and personal belongings seized; Yu taken to the Daqing Detention Center.
- 2025 (spring–summer) — Criminal detention, formal arrest, indictment.
- ~October 2025 — Sentenced by the Ranghulu Court to 3 years 10 months; term to February 8, 2029.
- November 25, 2025 — Reported still held at the Daqing Detention Center.
Media records
Minghui, November 25, 2025 — “十九年前曾遭冤刑 大庆于春艳女士再被诬判”. Full case narrative: the 2025-04-09 arrest, detention, the ~October 2025 sentence by the Ranghulu Court, continued detention at the Daqing Detention Center, and the complete 2006–2007 history (arrest, torture, hunger strike, three-year sentence, Heilongjiang Women’s Prison). https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2025/11/25/十九年前曾遭冤判-大庆于春艳女士再被诬判-502965.html
Minghui English edition, November 29, 2025 — “Ms. Yu Chunyan Sentenced Again, 19 Years After Her First Wrongful Conviction”. English edition of the same report. https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2025/11/29/231505.html
CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database, record for 于春艳 (“Yu Chunyan”), entered December 15, 2025. Birth 1962, Daqing renter, Falun Gong; arrested 2025-04-09; 3 years 10 months; term to 2029-02-08; Daqing City Detention Center; 2006 three-year sentence noted. https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/dosearch (search: 于春艳）
Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 prisoner tally, August 31, 2026. Lists “Yu Chunyan”/”Yu Chuyan” / 于春艳 in the 3-year-10-month group.
Contradictions and gaps
- The criminal charge is not stated in any source; do not speculate.
- The exact 2025 sentencing date is approximate (“about one month” before the November 25, 2025 report).
- The English transliteration varies between sources (“Yu Chuyan” vs “Yu Chunyan”); the Chinese name 于春艳 is identical throughout.
- No official court record or state-media coverage of the case was located.