袁金明 (Yuan Jinming)
Yuan Jinming (袁金明), born in 1964, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Beiguoma Village in Houma City, Shanxi Province. He began practicing Falun Gong in March 1999.
According to Minghui, a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet, Yuan was twice previously imprisoned for a total of eight years because of his practice: he was sentenced to three years in 2002 and released in March 2005, then sentenced to five years in 2007 and released in July 2012. Minghui reports that his legs were left disabled as a result of mistreatment in custody.
On May 6, 2023, police in Quwo County detained Yuan and searched his home. According to Minghui, the police said surveillance cameras had recorded him distributing Falun Gong materials in the Quwo county town. In June 2023 he was formally arrested.
On November 20, 2023, the Quwo County Court sentenced Yuan to three years and six months in prison and fined him 5,000 yuan. (The CHRD prisoner database records the sentencing date as November 11, 2023.) On December 12, 2023, he was transferred to Jinzhong Prison in Shanxi. His stated term runs to November 5, 2026.
Sources: Minghui case report (January 5, 2024); Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database record (entered February 28, 2024). Minghui’s characterizations of the proceedings are attributed to it; the charge against Yuan is recorded as unknown in the prisoner database.
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