Person profile: Wang Hongyu / 王红玉
This archive collects the published records documenting the case of Wang Hongyu (王红玉), a Falun Gong practitioner from Lushunkou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, serving a three-year-and-two-month prison sentence. Sources are graded; facts are presented as reported, not as independently verified findings.
Case chronology
- June 28, 2016 — Seized in the coordinated Dalian “1614” arrests; among fourteen Lushunkou practitioners detained, nine formally arrested.
- January 17–19, 2017 — First-instance trial of nine practitioners at the Lushun Court; defense lawyers argued for acquittal.
- December 22, 2017 — Lushun Court sentenced Wang Hongyu to three and a half years in prison and a 3,000-yuan fine; sentence term through December 27, 2019; the appeal was upheld in March 2018.
- April 3, 2025 — Re-arrested by Jiangxi Police Station officers in Lushunkou after being reported for distributing Falun Gong materials; home searched and items seized; detained.
- Mid-December 2025 — Local court sentenced her to three years and two months in prison; charge and detention facility not publicly reported; term through June 2, 2028.
- August 31, 2026 — Listed by the Rights Defense Network among in-custody political prisoners serving three-year-and-two-month sentences.
Published source records
- Minghui victim archive, record i29906 (filed under 刘仁秋 / Liu Renqiu), updated July 25, 2024 — detailed account of the 2016 Dalian “1614” arrests, the 2017 joint trial and sentencing of nine practitioners including Wang Hongyu (3.5 years), and the appeal outcome. Original record (subject-community media, clearly attributed).
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience database (recognized human-rights NGO), individual record for 王红玉 / “Wang Hongyu” — records birth month May 1977, Dalian Lushunkou residence, the 2016 case and 2017 sentence, the April 3, 2025 re-arrest, and the December 2025 three-year-two-month sentence with term through June 2, 2028. Database search page.
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) (rights monitoring organization), Issue 131 monthly in-custody report, August 31, 2026 — “Sentenced to three years and two months, 13 people” group including “Wang Hongyu” / 王红玉; name index. Report.
Evidentiary limitations
No official court judgment or state-media record of either proceeding has been located. The formal charge and the detention facility for the 2025–2026 sentence were not publicly reported. The “3 years and 2 months” listing group is a statistical cohort across many cases, not a single trial; group neighbors are not co-defendants.
Person profile: Wang Hongyu (王红玉)