Who she is
Zhang Yujin (张玉锦), born in 1945, is a retired associate professor of the Shenyang University of Technology (沈阳理工大学) in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, and a Falun Gong practitioner. Reporting from April 2024 describes her as 79 years old at the time. Beyond this, little biographical detail about her is publicly documented.
Arrest, trial, and sentence
On September 20, 2023, Zhang was arrested at her home by police and placed in the Shenyang No. 1 Detention Center. She was then criminally detained, approved for arrest, and prosecuted. On February 28, 2024, the Dadong District Court of Shenyang tried her case together with the cases of two other practitioners, Yu Guichun and Li Yongmei. Zhang was sentenced to four years and six months in prison; the specific charge was not publicly reported. According to the case record, her term runs to March 19, 2028; the place where she is serving it has not been publicly reported.
Status
Zhang Yujin is currently imprisoned. Her four-and-a-half-year term ends on March 19, 2028, and no evidence of release has been reported. Nothing further is publicly known about her current condition. (A note on sources: the Rights Defense Network’s custody report lists her in its “sentenced to four years” group, while both the detailed case record and the trial report give four years and six months; this profile follows the two case-specific sources.)
What is not known
The formal charge, the text of the court judgment, the prison where she is held, and her current health and conditions of detention. No release has been reported; her listed term runs to March 19, 2028.
Sources and media records
Full media archive and source record for Zhang Yujin: Zhang Yujin (张玉锦) — Media Archive
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database — Zhang Yujin (张玉锦) record (entered May 11, 2024)
- Minghui, “沈阳法轮功学员于桂春、李咏梅、张玉锦被非法判刑” (April 3, 2024)
- Minghui (English), “Three Liaoning Women Sentenced From 4.5 to 8 Years for Practicing Falun Gong” (April 6, 2024)
- Rights Defense Network Issue 131 monthly report (August 31, 2026) — custody listing