Yu Aiming (余爱明) is a petitioner (访民) from Fuqing City, Fujian Province. After her land was taken by the local government, she petitioned for redress. On August 3, 2022, she went to the Fuzhou Grand Hotel to approach the Central Inspection Team stationed in Fujian and was seized on the spot by local interception personnel. She was subsequently confined in a psychiatric hospital in Fuqing. Her current status is unverified.
Case
According to 维权网’s August 6, 2022 report, Yu Aiming traveled to the Fuzhou Grand Hotel on August 3, 2022 to seek out the Central Inspection Team, and was immediately seized by stability-maintenance personnel dispatched by the local government, losing contact. When her son learned of this, he reported to the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau; the Antai Police Station issued a case-acceptance receipt informing the family that Yu Aiming had been sent by the government to the Fu Le (Jia) Yuan hospital in Fuqing — in effect, detention in a psychiatric facility.
Context
The report places her case in a wider pattern in the Fuzhou area of petitioners being confined in psychiatric hospitals after petitioning over rights violations, naming several other documented cases, including fellow petitioner He Guanjiao (何观娇), who appears alongside Yu Aiming in the same Fujian prisoner group. Her surname is 余, distinct from the 于-surname Yu-family neighbors in the same roster section.
Current status
Unknown. The detention was documented in August 2022; no charge, sentence, release, or later whereabouts have been verified. This profile does not state that she remains detained or has been released.
Sources
- 维权网: “余爱明因到中央巡视组在福州的下榻处信访被’人民’政府囚禁精神病院” (2022-08-06): wqw2010.blogspot.com
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database — record for 余爱明 / “YU AI MING” (record entered 2022-09-07).
- 维权网 Issue-131 report — 余爱明 in the Fujian 6-person group.
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