Wang Yuping (王喻平) — Media Profile & Archive
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This archive collects the media and documentation record for Wang Yuping (王喻平), the Hubei democracy activist also known as Wang Yiming and “People’s Thinker,” covering his 2008–2023 advocacy and detention history and his current 2025–2028 sentence.
Case chronology
- 2008–2011 — Wang publishes pro-democracy writings online; repeatedly detained, surveilled, fined, beaten, expelled from employment. October 2011: flees to Bangkok, Thailand.
- November 8, 2012 — Seized in Thailand and brought back to China; held in Tianmen Detention Center, then Jingzhou District Detention Center.
- January 8, 2015 — Jingzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentences him to 11 years for inciting subversion of state power, three years’ deprivation of political rights. May 19, 2015: Hubei High Court upholds the sentence.
- 2016–2023 — Serves in Jiangbei Prison, then Hongshan Prison (from March 4, 2016). Torture and hunger-strike accounts documented by CPPC and PEN.
- November 2023 — Released on completion of the 11-year sentence.
- May 27, 2024 — Forcibly placed in a psychiatric facility by Jianli authorities; discharged after resistance.
- September 2025 — Detained on suspicion of “intentional injury” after a dispute with stability-maintenance personnel. Held at Jianli City Hongcheng Detention Center, then Jianli City Detention Center. The family’s lawyer reports Wang was beaten four times in custody and files a complaint.
- December 20, 2025 — Tried by the Jianli City Court; Wang refuses to appear.
- December 30, 2025 — Sentenced to two years and ten months for intentional injury, term to July 4, 2028. Transferred to Guanghua Prison, Qianjiang (Ward 3).
- August 31, 2026 — Listed in the rights-defense roster’s 2-year-10-month group (with Hao Liping, Yang Jie, Guo Jia, and Wan Wu).
Source records
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database — record for 王喻平 / “Wang Yuping”: male, born 1964-9-11, detained 2025.9, charge 故意伤害罪 (“Intentionally causing injury”), sentence 2 years 10 months, release 2028.7.4, Guanghua Prison; full biography covering 2008–2025 with links to RFA, PEN Center, and CPPC. VERIFIED — direct database query response 2026-10-09 (exactly one record returned; CSV text). Source type: recognized human-rights NGO prisoner database.
- China Political Prisoner Concern (CPPC), “王喻平（CPPC编号：00365）” (http://cppc1989.blogspot.com/2016/04/cppc00365.html). Full case file: 2008–2015 history, the 2024 psychiatric detention, the 2025 detention (with detention notice image), the lawyer’s account, and the December 30, 2025 judgment (with judgment-document images). VERIFIED — opened and read 2026-10-09. Source type: established monitoring organization.
- Independent Chinese PEN Center, “226：王喻平” (https://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/68721). Member profile: biography, 2008–2015 case details, 11-year sentence, prison conditions, family contact. VERIFIED — opened and read 2026-10-09. Source type: writers’ association / human-rights NGO.
Name caution
王玉平 (different characters) is a different person and must not be merged with this case.
Evidence gaps and contradictions
- Release-date discrepancy (2015 case): PEN Center records October 8, 2023; CHRD and CPPC record November 7, 2023. Minor; not material to the current case.
- Detention date (2025): September 12 (CHRD, citing 维权网) vs. September 15 (CPPC detention-notice image). The profile states “September 2025” without fixing a day.
- The 2025 dispute with stability-maintenance personnel and the in-custody beatings are reported through the family’s lawyer via CPPC; no official account was located.
- No PRC official or state-media coverage of the 2025 case was found (not expected for this case type); no consular involvement known.
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