Wang Yu (王玉) — Media Archive
Note: This archive covers 王玉 (Wang Yu), a Falun Gong practitioner from Suiling County, Heilongjiang — not 王宇, the human-rights lawyer of the 709 crackdown. Lawyer 王宇’s pages on this site are separate and unrelated.
Person Profile: Wang Yu (王玉)
Source record (chronological)
- World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong — “追查黑龙江省绥化市迫害李忠元、王玉等五名法轮功学员的责任人的通告” (January 14, 2026). Falun Gong-affiliated investigative organization notice. Reports: on May 10, 2025 at 3 a.m., an operation commanded by the Heilongjiang provincial public security department arrested five Suiling County Falun Gong practitioners — 李忠元 (Li Zhongyuan), 王玉 (Wang Yu), 修忠臣 (Xiu Zhongchen), 赵树全 (Zhao Shuquan), 蒋明 (Jiang Ming) — who were taken to the Hailun City detention center; on October 16, 2025 the Hailun City court sentenced Wang Yu to four years and six months (Li Zhongyuan five years; the other three suspended sentences), each fined 10,000 yuan; Wang Yu and Li Zhongyuan were transferred to Beian Prison. Names the responsible units and officials. Source type: Falun Gong-affiliated investigative organization. Verification: VERIFIED (opened and read October 9, 2026). Relevance: primary detailed account of the arrest and sentencing; the only source with case chronology and co-defendant detail. Provenance note: characterizations of the proceedings as “illegal” are the organization’s language and must remain attributed. URL: https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/146363
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database — 王玉 / Wang Yu record (entered 2026-01-16). Established human-rights NGO database. Records: from Suiling County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang; Falun Gong practitioner; taken 2025-05-10; charge unknown; sentence 4 years 6 months; release 2029-11-09; held at Heilongjiang Beian Prison. Summarizes the same arrest and sentencing facts, linking the WOIPFG notice as other source. Source type: human-rights NGO monitoring database. Verification: VERIFIED (queried directly via the database search endpoint, October 9, 2026 — one exact record among 12 returned; CSV response parsed). Relevance: independent NGO case record corroborating name, sentence band, arrest date, and prison.
- Rights Defense Network / 维权网 — Monthly Report on Political Prisoners in Custody, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026). Monitoring-organization statistical report. Lists 王玉 / Wang Yu in §VII “sentenced to four years and six months, 72 people” group and the §VIII name index, as in current custody. Source type: rights-monitoring organization. Verification: VERIFIED (positional ZH↔EN equation re-checked; durable local copy read). Relevance: roster listing confirming sentence classification and in-custody status as of August 31, 2026. Provenance note: the report describes itself as incomplete and possibly containing errors; figures attributed to RDN.
Identity-collision record (not part of this person’s archive)
- 王宇 / Wang Yu, human-rights lawyer (709 crackdown) — different person (different character 王宇 vs 王玉; documented 2015–2021 lawyer case vs 2025 Suiling 4y6m case). Her pages on this site are separate and unrelated; they must not be linked as this person.
- 王玉兰 / Wang Yulan (Kunming 2024 case, 2-year sentence) — different person.
- 王玉英 / Wang Yuying (Changchun 2024 case, died in custody) — different person.
Source gaps
No court record, prosecution document, or state-media account of the case located. No established international or independent Chinese-language media coverage found. No family interview or consular record. The formal charge remains undocumented (CHRD lists it as unknown).
Person Profile: Wang Yu (王玉)