Person profile: Tian Yuhua (田玉华)
Tian Yuhua (田玉华) — Media Profile & Archive
This page preserves the source record behind the case of Tian Yuhua (田玉华) of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province — reported to be serving a five-year sentence and recorded as in custody in August 2026. It documents the chronology, the procedural record as reported, the officials and units named in the source material, and the evidentiary limits of the case.
Source chronology
- 1996 — Tian begins practicing Falun Gong; after 1999 the sources report repeated harassment, seizures, and detentions by local police (reported by Minghui; CHRD database).
- May 11, 2024 — Plainclothes police enter her home in the Qikailiyuan community, search it, and take her to the Wanggang Town police station for interrogation; she is released after 5,000 yuan is taken as bail money (same sources).
- October 25, 2025, midday — Fourteen to fifteen officers of the Nangang District Public Security Bureau enter her home, seize her, and search the residence — taking a printer, a CD burner, Falun Gong books, and religious images. She is placed in criminal detention at the Harbin City Detention Center and is later formally arrested and indicted (same sources).
- February 10, 2026 — The Daoli District Court tries her case (2 pm session).
- February 13, 2026 — The court sentences her to five years in prison with a 50,000-yuan fine (Minghui; WOIPFG notice). The CHRD record gives the sentence term as ending October 24, 2030.
- May 21, 2026 — The Harbin Intermediate Court is reported to have rejected her appeal (WOIPFG notice).
- By 2026 — Weiquanwang Information Center’s monthly in-custody roster (issue dated August 31, 2026) lists 田玉华 in the five-year-sentence group, still in custody.
Officials and units named in the source record
The investigation notice names the following as the units and individuals it holds responsible: the Harbin and Nangang District political-legal committee leadership; the Nangang District Public Security Bureau leadership and state-security officers; the Daoli District political-legal committee secretary; the Daoli District Procuratorate chief and the public prosecutor; the Daoli District Court president, the presiding judge, lay assessors, and the court clerk; and the Wanggang Town police station and the Harbin City Detention Center. These names are preserved here as recorded in the notice; they are the organization’s allegations, not independently verified findings. Personal contact details appearing in the sources are not republished.
Sources preserved
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience database record: 田玉华 / “Tian Yuhua” (record entered 2026-03-16; retrieved by direct database query, October 9, 2026): female, born 1968; sentence 5 years, term to 2030-10-24, held at Harbin City Detention Center; https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/searchpage (source citation embedded in the record: Minghui, February 19, 2026)
- Minghui — 哈尔滨法轮功学员田玉华被非法判刑五年 (February 19, 2026; ZH): https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2026/2/19/哈尔滨法轮功学员田玉华被非法判刑五年-507004.html
- World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong — investigation notice on Tian Yuhua’s case (March 12, 2026; ZH): https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2026/03/9267.pdf
- Weiquanwang Information Center — monthly report on political and conscience prisoners in custody (issue 131, August 31, 2026; ZH): https://www.chinahrc.org/content/43092/
Evidentiary limits
The narrative record rests on community/advocacy sources and a monitoring organization’s prisoner database; the arrest and trial details are presented as reported, not as independently verified court findings. The birth year differs between sources (1968 vs. July 1969); the appeal rejection is reported by one advocacy source. The formal criminal charge, the current prison, and any further appeal have not been publicly documented. No court judgment or official record was found.
Person profile: Tian Yuhua (田玉华)