Person profile: Chen Mingyu (陈明玉)
Chen Mingyu (陈明玉) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the key source records documenting the case of Chen Mingyu (陈明玉), a Chongqing rights-defense advocate sentenced to two years and six months in prison in March 2025.
Source records
- 民生观察 (Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch), March 28, 2025 — “重庆维权人士陈明玉开庭宣判”. Reports that on the afternoon of March 26, 2025, the Yubei District Court in Chongqing tried Chen Mingyu on the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and sentenced her to two years and six months. The report lists the conduct cited against her — protesting alleged gas-meter fraud, welcoming newly released Liu Fuxiang, the dinner marking the May 20, 2024 inauguration of ROC(Taiwan) President Lai Ching-te, and overseas media coverage — and notes that she declared in court that she would appeal, and that her son Yuan Chang attended the trial. URL: https://msguancha.com/plus/view.php?aid=24177
- Radio Free Asia, Cantonese service, July 27, 2019. A 2019 report referenced by the Prisoners of Conscience database in connection with Chen Mingyu’s earlier rights-defense activity. (Direct page content could not be read in this environment; cited here via the database record.)
- Prisoners of Conscience database (tenchu.org/pocd), record for 陈明玉 / “Chen Mingyu”, entered April 1, 2025. Records: female; last taken into custody July 4, 2024; charge “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”; sentence 2 years 6 months; term through May 19, 2027; Jiangbei Prison; background: Huashi Village, Lianglu Town, Yubei District, Chongqing; rights-defense advocate.
- 维权网 (Rights Defense Network) Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026. Lists 陈明玉 in the two-and-a-half-year sentence group among mainland political prisoners and prisoners of conscience classified as currently in custody.
Source chronology
2019 — RFA Cantonese report on Chen’s rights-defense activity · 2024-05-20 — inauguration dinner → 2024-07-04 — taken into custody · 2025-03-26 — trial and sentencing, Yubei District Court · 2025-03-28 — 民生观察 trial report · 2025-04-01 — Prisoners of Conscience database entry · 2026-08-31 — Issue 131 roster listing (in custody).
Provenance and limitations
The trial reporting comes from independent rights media (民生观察) and the rights-monitoring database; no official court document for the case has been located. The charge as stated is the official charge; Chen’s own position — that her conduct was lawful — is reported by the same sources. The RFA item is referenced but was not directly readable in this pass. No mainland state-media coverage of the case was found. Claims above are attributed to their sources; no occupation beyond rights advocacy, and no facts about her current prison conditions, are asserted beyond what the sources state.
Person profile: Chen Mingyu (陈明玉)