Yang Shuqin (杨淑琴), born 1963, is a practitioner of Falun Gong from Shuncheng District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province, currently serving a four-year prison sentence for her religious practice. As of August 2026 she was listed by the Rights Defense Network (维权网) among the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience held in mainland China.
On the morning of 7 December 2023, Yang was detained by police near Liudao Street in Fushun after she was reported for telling passers-by about Falun Gong. Her home was searched the same day, and she was held at the Fushun detention center, then formally arrested and prosecuted. In March 2025 it was reported that she had been sentenced to four years on undisclosed charges. She was transferred to the Liaoning Provincial Women's Prison, with the term recorded as running to 6 December 2027.
The Rights Defense Network's Issue 131 monthly report (31 August 2026) lists "Yang Shuqin" / 杨淑琴 in its group of prisoners sentenced to four years, indicating she remained in custody at that date. The report describes itself as an incomplete list that may contain errors.
All custody and sentence details above come from monitoring-organization reporting and Falun Gong–affiliated reporting; no court record or official charge sheet is publicly available, and the formal charge is reported as unknown.
Do-not-merge note: 杨淑琴 (Yang Shuqin, Fushun, Liaoning, 4-year sentence) is a different person from 张淑琴 (Zhang Shuqin) and 孙淑清 (Sun Shuqing), and from other phonetically similar records — distinct surnames and cases; they must not be merged.
Media archive: Yang Shuqin (杨淑琴) — Media Archive