Hou Yuchun (侯玉春), also rendered 侯浴椿 in some monitoring sources, is a Falun Gong practitioner and farmer from Yuncheng County, Heze City, Shandong Province. Sources report that she was sentenced in December 2024 to three years and six months in prison.
2024 arrest and sentence
Minghui reports that Hou was arrested on July 10, 2024 with other practitioners in Yuncheng County and later released on bail. She stood trial on December 9, 2024 at the Yuncheng County Court. Minghui and WOIPFG report that on December 18 she was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and fined 10,000 yuan.
Appeal and status
Minghui reports that the Heze City Intermediate Court rejected Hou’s appeal on March 7, 2025. The Prisoners of Conscience Database lists her as in prison and carries a June 8, 2028 release-date field. That date is presented only as a database value.
Evidence limits
No criminal charge is stated in the reviewed sources and none is inferred. No public court judgment was located. The character forms 侯玉春 and 侯浴椿 are treated as variants referring to the same person because the biographical, geographic and case anchors coincide.
Media Profile & Archive: Hou Yuchun / 侯玉春 — Media Profile & Archive.