Wu Daofen (吴道芬)
Wu Daofen (吴道芬), a Falun Gong practitioner from Guiyang, Guizhou Province, is serving a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence and is held at the Guizhou Women’s Prison. She was 80 years old at the time her case was reported in 2024.
Background
Wu Daofen was born in 1944 and lived in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province. She practiced Falun Gong. Earlier in the campaign against the practice she was held in a re-education-through-labor facility in Guizhou.
Detention and sentencing
According to reports compiled by fellow practitioners and documented by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders Prisoners of Conscience database, Wu was detained by police in April, June, and October of 2022. She was last seen in July 2023; friends learned afterward, through her family, that a local court had sentenced her to four years and six months in prison, with the term running to January 2028. The specific charge was not reported. She was transferred to the Guizhou Women’s Prison (also known as Yanga Prison, 羊艾监狱).
A political-prisoner roster published on August 31, 2026 lists Wu Daofen among prisoners serving sentences of four years and six months, confirming she remained in custody as of that date.
Status
With a sentence term running to January 2028 and an in-custody listing dated August 31, 2026, Wu Daofen is recorded here as currently imprisoned. The charge on which she was convicted has not been publicly documented.
Sources
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database — individual record for 吴道芬 / Wu Daofen (female, born 1944, Guiyang, Guizhou; Falun Gong practitioner; 4 years 6 months; Guizhou Women’s Prison; term to 2028-01).
- Minghui, May 3, 2024 — “贵阳两位八旬老人吴道芬、蒋朝林遭诬判入狱” (case report on the detention and sentencing of Wu Daofen and fellow practitioner Jiang Chaolin).
- 维权网, August 31, 2026 — China mainland political-prisoner monthly report, Issue 131 (in-custody listing, 4-year-6-month band).