Classification: Falun Gong practitioner from Fushun, Liaoning; sentenced to three and a half years in prison in 2025; reported in custody as of August 2026.
Background
Tong Jing (佟静), born in 1966, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Minghui’s victim file documents a series of earlier detentions in Fushun: on April 7, 2022, Tong Jing and fellow practitioner Tian Lili were detained in Wugong Street, Xinfu District, while distributing Falun Gong materials, held at the Fumin Police Station, and later released; on December 29, 2022, Tong Jing and Tong Mingqiu were detained at the Dongfuping community after a report to the Zhanqian Police Station — Tong Jing was released the next afternoon; and on August 9, 2023, she was detained at the Fushun Public Security Bureau’s exit-and-entry office while applying for a passport with her elderly mother, held at the Fushun Detention Center with the case sent to the Dongzhou District Procuratorate, and released on the evening of August 23, 2023.
2025 arrest, trial, and sentencing
On the morning of March 7, 2025, Tong Jing went out to pay an internet bill and did not return. Her family later learned she had been detained by officers of the Zhanqian Police Station in Xinfu District. She was placed under criminal detention at the Fushun City Detention Center (Nangou) and indicted by the Dongzhou District Procuratorate in Fushun. On June 24, 2025, the Dongzhou District Court tried her case inside the detention center. In August 2025, her family learned she had been sentenced to three years and six months in prison; the charge was not specified in the available records. Her recorded release date is September 6, 2028. According to Minghui, she was transferred to the Liaoning Women’s Second Prison at the end of September 2025.
Current status
Tong Jing is currently imprisoned, serving a sentence that runs through September 6, 2028. The Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 monthly in-custody report (August 31, 2026) lists her among its reported current-custody cases, in the group sentenced to three years and six months — consistent with the 2025 sentence.
Identity note: The surname character is 佟 (Tóng) — not 童 or 仝. She is not 佟明宇 of Harbin, 仝瑞卿, 佟明秋, or 田丽丽, who appear as separate persons in the case records.
Sources: Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database, individual record for 佟静 / “Tong Jing” (entered September 15, 2025); Minghui victim file i136963 for 佟静 (updated May 30, 2026); Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly in-custody report, August 31, 2026. Event characterizations are the outlets’ own.
Media profile & archive: Media profile and archive for Tong Jing (佟静)