Person profile: Yang Shiyi (杨适怡)
Yang Shiyi (杨适怡) — Media Archive
A record of reported coverage and source material on the detention and sentencing of Yang Shiyi, a Falun Gong practitioner from Xiangtan, Hunan, serving five years in Wangling Prison (You County, Zhuzhou, Hunan; term to 19 February 2028). Source provenance and evidentiary limits are recorded per item. Claims of ill-treatment by advocacy sources are attributed, not stated as independently verified fact.
Record 1 — Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database (CHRD PoC)
Database record (entered 2024-02-28) for 杨适怡 / Yang Shiyi: male; taken away 20 February 2023; charge listed as unknown; sentence five years; release date 19 February 2028; held at Wangling Prison (You County, Zhuzhou). The record's summary describes him as a Xiangtan native, a former Xiangtan railway station coal-shop worker and Falun Gong practitioner whose parents were also practitioners; one re-education-through-labor term and two prison sentences totaling about fifteen years; detention on 20 February 2023 by Yuntang station police at his rented room, then detention center, criminal detention, arrest and prosecution; family told by telephone before New Year 2024 of the five-year sentence on undisclosed charges, transfer to Wangling Prison. The record cites a Minghui article (see Record 2) as its further source. Source type: rights-monitoring database.
Record 2 — Minghui (明慧网), "曾遭十五年冤狱迫害 湘潭杨适怡再被枉判五年" (18 January 2024)
Correspondent report from Hunan: Yang Shiyi's family was told by telephone before New Year 2024 that he had been sentenced to five years and sent to Wangling Prison in You County, Zhuzhou; the charge and trial details were not disclosed. The report states Yang was detained on 20 February 2023 by police from the Yuntang station of the Yuhu branch of the Xiangtan Public Security Bureau at his rented room and taken to the Xiangtan detention center; it describes his earlier one labor-education term and two prison sentences totaling about fifteen years and his family's circumstances. The report's characterizations of legality and its calls for the release of practitioners are the outlet's advocacy positions, recorded as such. Source type: Falun Gong–affiliated media.
Record 3 — Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly report (31 August 2026)
Statistical table lists "Yang Shiyi" / 杨适怡 in the "Sentenced to 5 years, 111 people" group. Establishes the name, Chinese characters, and sentence classification as of 31 August 2026. Source type: rights-monitoring organization report. The report describes itself as an incomplete list that may contain errors; all figures attributed to the reporting organization.
Evidence gaps
No court judgment, prosecution record, or official charge sheet is publicly available; the formal charge is reported as unknown by all sources; no PRC official or state-media record of this individual found; trial date and court undisclosed. No contradictions between sources on the core facts (name, city, dates, sentence, prison).
Person profile: Yang Shiyi (杨适怡)