Classification: Falun Gong practitioner in Chengdu, Sichuan; sentenced to three years in prison in October 2025; reported in custody as of August 2026.
Background
Yu Xiuqiong (余秀琼) is a Falun Gong practitioner who lives in Xindu District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. According to the case record compiled by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, on the afternoon of August 20, 2024, she was speaking to a young man about Falun Gong when he photographed her and reported her to the police; she got away at the time.
Detention and sentencing
On August 21, 2024, officers from the Taixing police station entered her home, took her into custody, and searched the residence. The following day she was placed in the Pixian Detention Center under criminal detention. She was formally arrested about two weeks later and subsequently prosecuted. On October 19, 2025, the Xindu District Court in Chengdu sentenced her to three years in prison, with the term running through August 20, 2027. The charge and her current place of detention were not recorded in the case file.
Current status
The Rights Defense Network’s monthly in-custody report for August 2026 lists Yu Xiuqiong among 110 people it records as sentenced to three years, consistent with her still serving the sentence. No details of any appeal, sentence reduction, or transfer have been located, and none is inferred.
Sources: Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database individual record (entered December 15, 2025); Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly in-custody report, August 31, 2026.
Media profile & archive: Media profile and archive for Yu Xiuqiong (余秀琼)