Person profile: Yu Xiuqiong / 余秀琼
This archive preserves the source record behind the Yu Xiuqiong (余秀琼) profile: a Falun Gong practitioner from Xindu District, Chengdu, detained in August 2024 and sentenced to three years in prison in October 2025, with provenance and limitations noted. Sources are graded; allegations remain attributed rather than stated as fact.
Case chronology
- August 20, 2024 (afternoon) — Yu Xiuqiong speaks to a young man about Falun Gong; he photographs her and reports her; she leaves (CHRD case record).
- August 21, 2024 — Taixing police-station officers enter her home, detain her, and search the residence (CHRD case record).
- August 22, 2024 — Placed in the Pixian Detention Center under criminal detention (CHRD case record).
- ~September 2024 — Formally arrested about fifteen days after the criminal detention; later prosecuted (CHRD case record).
- October 19, 2025 — Sentenced by the Xindu District Court, Chengdu, to three years in prison; term through August 20, 2027; charge and detention facility not recorded (CHRD case record).
- August 31, 2026 — Listed in the Rights Defense Network’s monthly in-custody report among the 110 people in the “Sentenced to 3 years” group; name rendered 余秀琼 in the Chinese edition (Issue 131).
Media and documentary record
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience database, individual record for “Yu Xiuqiong” (record entered 2025-12-15): female, last taken 2024-08-21, charge unknown, sentence 3 years, release date 2027-08-20, detention location unknown; full case narrative (Xindu District home, Taixing police station, Pixian Detention Center, Xindu District Court sentencing). Database search page (established human-rights monitoring organization; single-source individual record).
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) — Issue 131 monthly in-custody report (August 31, 2026): Yu Xiuqiong (余秀琼) recorded in the “Sentenced to 3 years, 110 people” group of the Chinese edition and the matching English position.
- Minghui (明慧网) — cited by the CHRD record as its “other source” for this case (generic portal reference https://www.minghui.org/; the specific article was not individually located). Recorded as a cited-but-not-independently-opened source.
Evidence notes and limitations
The detention and sentencing facts come from a single monitoring-organization case record (CHRD’s Prisoners of Conscience database); the record itself notes that the charge and the detention location are unknown. The Minghui report it cites was not individually opened and read, so it is recorded as a cited source rather than an independently verified one. No court judgment, police notice, or state-media coverage of the case was located. The Rights Defense Network’s monthly report is an independent roster listing of people it counts as in custody as of August 31, 2026. Nothing in the record establishes the charge, any appeal, sentence reduction, transfer, or current facility — those must not be inferred.
Person profile: Yu Xiuqiong / 余秀琼