Person profile: Wu Yanna (吴燕娜) — Person Profile
This archive collects the available reporting on the case of Wu Yanna (吴燕娜), a former English teacher from Jieyang, Guangdong, and a Falun Gong practitioner, sentenced to one year in prison in late December 2025.
Source records
- CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database record — 吴燕娜 / Wu Yanna (record entered 2026-02-11). Records: female; detained 2025.4.5; charge unknown; 1-year sentence; release 2026.4.4; held at Jieyang City Detention Center. The record’s case summary corroborates the April 2025 home detention by Jiedong domestic-security police and the one-year sentence by the Jiedong District Court, and notes her prior eight-year sentence and abuse at the Guangdong Women’s Prison. Source: Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), Prisoners of Conscience database. Verification: VERIFIED — queried and read directly from tenchu.org/pocd; exactly one matching record, no same-name collisions.
- Minghui (Chinese), 2026-01-23: “曾遭八年冤刑 广东揭阳市吴燕娜又被非法判刑一年” — reports the April 5, 2025 home detention by Jiedong domestic-security police, Yunlu and Quxi stations; detention at Jieyang City Detention Center; one-year sentence by the Jiedong District Court in late 2025; and recounts her earlier persecution history (2000 Beijing petition detention; 2001 eight-month detention and brainwashing sessions; 2004 Tianhe “610 Office” seizure; December 2004 eight-year sentence; transfer to Guangdong Women’s Prison on 2005-03-10). Verification: VERIFIED — opened and read in full. URL: https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2026/1/23/曾遭八年冤刑-广东揭阳市吴燕娜又被非法判刑一年-505377p.html
- Minghui (English), 2026-01-30: “Guangdong Woman Gets One Year for Practicing Falun Gong, Previously Jailed for 8 Years” — English edition of the same case report: Jiedong District Court sentenced her to one year in late December 2025; arrested at home April 5, 2025 by the Jiedong District Domestic Security Office, Yunlu and Quxi police stations; held at the Jieyang City Detention Center; prior history (June 2000 Beijing petition; January 24, 2001 arrest, 8+ months detention, brainwashing centers, escape; April 18, 2004 arrest; December 20, 2004 eight-year sentence). Verification: VERIFIED — opened and read in full. URL: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2026/1/30/232484.html
- Minghui (English) digest, 2004-12-17: “Latest News from China (November 17, 2004)”, item 22 — contemporary brief: “Ms. Wu Yanna Put on Trial in Tianhe District”; identifies her as an English teacher at Meigang Middle School in Jiedong County, Jieyang; reports the April 18, 2004 arrest by the Tianhe District 610 Office, holding at the Tianhe legal school and detention center, and a court hearing scheduled December 20 at Tianhe District Court. Verification: VERIFIED — opened and read; digest item, corroborative. URL: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2004/12/17/55655.html
Verification notes
- All four sources opened and read in full during research on 2026-10-09.
- No broken links among cited sources. No syndicated duplicates.
- ZH Minghui and EN Minghui reports of the 2025–2026 case agree on all material facts (dates, locations, sentence length).
- The CHRD record’s “charge unknown” agrees with Minghui’s “the charge was not reported.”
Contradictions / gaps
- None material. Minor phrasing difference: the EN article says she was “detained for another two weeks” after the 2000 Beijing detention; the ZH article says “半个月” (half a month) — equivalent.
- The exact dates of indictment and trial for the 2025 case were not reported by any source; do not assert them.
Person profile: Wu Yanna (吴燕娜) — Person Profile