Ding Xiangqin — Falun Gong Practitioner Imprisoned in Henan

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# Ding Xiangqin — Falun Gong Practitioner Imprisoned in Henan

Ding Xiangqin is a Falun Gong practitioner from Luohe City, Henan Province. She and her husband, Yang Juncheng — both in their 60s — were arrested in September 2023. Both were subsequently reported to have received ten-year prison terms, the exact sentencing date unreported. During the raid on their home, police confiscated 300,000 yuan in cash along with other personal belongings. Yang Juncheng’s father, in his 90s and dependent on his son for care, was left without support.

The case was documented in Minghui’s 2025 sentencing reports, which list the couple among 751 Falun Gong practitioners newly reported in 2025 as sentenced for their faith, under the report’s “heavy terms” category (sentences of three to ten years — 55.7% of the 751 cases). The reports describe the persecution as continuing 26 years after the 1999 ban, noting that the couple’s ages did not spare them from the heaviest tier of sentencing.

**Status:** Reported in custody serving a ten-year term. The sentencing date was not reported by the sources; no release or completion date is published. No information is available on the detention facility, the court that imposed the sentence, or any appeal.

**Related person:** Yang Juncheng (husband) — arrested with Ding in September 2023 and reported to have received the same ten-year term. He is not separately profiled here for lack of an independent source record beyond the couple’s joint case.

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