Wang Juying (王菊英) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Xupu County, Hunan Province, serving a three-year prison sentence in the Huaihua City Detention Center. Her case is recorded in the China Human Rights Defenders Prisoners of Conscience database, and she appears on the August 2026 Rights Defense Network (维权网) roster of mainland China’s currently detained political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.
Background
Wang Juying is a female Falun Gong practitioner from Xupu County, Hunan Province. Before her 2025 detention, she was detained and held on several occasions in connection with distributing or speaking about Falun Gong materials, according to reporting.
Case chronology
- January 9, 2021: Wang Juying and fellow practitioner Zhang Xiaoying distributed Falun Gong informational leaflets in Songkouwan, Shuidong, Xupu, and were detained for 15 days after being reported to the Shuidong police station, according to the case record. She subsequently returned home.
- October 16, 2023: Around 6:30 p.m., police from the Xupu County Public Security Bureau and the “610 Office” entered the homes of Wang Juying and nine other local practitioners, searched the residences, and took the ten practitioners away; three were released the same night, according to the case record.
- April 24, 2024: Wang Juying was again taken away with six other practitioners, including Yang Lanying, Mao Yanping, Shu Qiuju, Zhang Yugui, Gao Xingqing, and Zhang Yuancui; three were released the same day while the others were held at the county detention center. The next day, Yang Lanying, Mao Yanping, and Wang Juying were transferred to the Huaihua City Detention Center, according to the case record.
- February 27, 2025: Wang Juying and Mao Yanping were detained by Xupu County police and held at the Huaihua City Detention Center. She was then criminally detained, arrested, and indicted, according to the case record.
- May 7, 2025: The Yuanling County Court sentenced Wang Juying to three years’ imprisonment; Yang Lanying and Mao Yanping were sentenced the same day, according to the case record. The charge was not publicly identified. Her sentence term is recorded as running through February 26, 2028.
- August 31, 2026: The Rights Defense Network’s monthly report on political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in custody lists Wang Juying among mainland China’s currently detained prisoners, in the cohort serving three years.
Status
Wang Juying is verified as currently imprisoned as of the August 31, 2026 custody roster, with her sentence term running through February 26, 2028.
Sources
- Minghui, Victim profile — “王菊英” (library.minghui.org/victim/i132782.htm; page updated 2025-06-25; accessed 2026-10-09): case chronology — January 2021 15-day detention; October 2023 home raid and detention with nine others; April 2024 detention with six others and transfer to Huaihua City Detention Center; February 27, 2025 detention with Mao Yanping; May 7, 2025 three-year sentence by the Yuanling County Court (with Yang Lanying and Mao Yanping).
- China Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database — record for 王菊英 / Wang Juying (entered 2025-07-15; accessed 2026-10-09): female; Xupu County, Hunan; Falun Gong practitioner; taken 2025-02-27 by Xupu County police; held at Huaihua City Detention Center; sentenced to 3 years, term through 2028-02-26.
- Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Custody in Mainland China, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026) — lists “Wang Juying” / 王菊英 in the “Sentenced to 3 years” cohort of the current-custody roster.
Note: The case narrative comes from Falun Gong–affiliated reporting (Minghui) and a prisoner-monitoring organization (China Human Rights Defenders); no court record or independent non-affiliated media account has been located. Details are presented as reported, not as independently verified findings. The charge was not publicly identified. This profile concerns Wang Juying (王菊英) of Xupu, Hunan — not to be confused with Wang Juxiang (王菊香), a different person.
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