Yuan Junhua / 袁俊花
Yuan Junhua is a Falun Gong practitioner from Shouguang City, Shandong Province, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in September 2024 and is currently serving that sentence.
Key facts
- Born in 1964; female; a resident of Shouguang City, Shandong Province; a retired garment worker.
- She began practicing Falun Gong in 1998.
- On July 28, 2023, she was seized at her home by domestic-security officers and police from the Gucheng Subdistrict station; she was released the following day.
- In December 2023 she was indicted to the Shouguang City Court.
- On June 13, 2024, she was seized at a rental residence and transferred to the Weifang City Detention Center.
- After three court hearings, the Shouguang City Court sentenced her on September 19, 2024, to three years and six months in prison, plus a fine of 30,000 yuan. The presiding judge was Li Yonghui.
- Her appeal to the Weifang Intermediate Court was rejected on February 6, 2025, without a hearing.
- Her sentence runs through December 12, 2027. The charge against her is not specified in the available sources.
Sources: Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database record for Yuan Junhua; Minghui victim file i140847 (updated March 28, 2025). The sentence, detention site, birth year, and home city are corroborated across both sources; court-procedure details are reported by Minghui.
A media profile and archive documenting the coverage of her case is published separately: Media Profile & Archive.