Yang Xuehua (杨学华) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing, currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in connection with distributing Falun Gong materials.
Born in 1970, Yang is a resident of the Guangwai area of Xicheng District, Beijing. According to the prisoner-of-conscience database of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, she was detained after handing out Falun Gong materials near the Beijing West Railway Station in Xicheng District on July 21, 2020, when she was reported to police. On July 23, 2020, officers of the Taipingqiao Police Station in Fengtai District took her into custody and searched her home.
On December 29, 2020, Yang was tried at the Fengtai District Court, where her lawyer entered a not-guilty plea on her behalf. The court sentenced her to seven years in prison. The specific charges of record are not publicly documented. She is held at the Fengtai District Detention Center, with her sentence running to July 22, 2027.
Yang's case was reported by Minghui, a Falun Gong-affiliated media outlet, in a February 2021 article, and she is listed among the prisoners of conscience held in mainland China in the August 2026 monthly roster published by the Rights Defense Network (维权网).
Do-not-merge note: 杨学华 (Yang Xuehua — this person) is a different person from 杨学贵 (Yang Xuegui, adjacent roster entry), 杨秀华 / 杨秀花, 杨雪盈, and 颜雪花 (EN "Yan Xuehua" — different family name); the variant characters 杨雪华 / 杨雪花 do not exist in the prisoner database (zero-collision verified).
Media profile and archive: Yang Xuehua (杨学华) — Media Profile & Archive