This archive collects reporting on Tong Mingyu (佟明宇), a Falun Gong practitioner from Shuangcheng District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province.
2017 — earlier imprisonment
WOIPFG reports that Tong was detained in 2017 and later served a three-year-six-month term at Tailai Prison. This is historical background and is not the same as the later five-year-three-month roster classification.
November 20, 2024 — detention
WOIPFG reports that Tong was detained while visiting Liu Shuwen, that both were taken to the Daoli District Detention Center, and that police searched Tong’s home. URL: https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2025/03/8964.pdf
December 2024–February 2025
The same source reports approval of formal arrest on December 5, 2024, a hunger strike and force-feeding in detention, and a trial at the Daoli District Court on February 13, 2025. No verdict is given in that notice.
August 31, 2026 — roster
Rights Defense Network / 维权网 Issue 131 places 佟明宇 / Tong Mingyu as the sole person in the five-years-and-three-months fixed-term subgroup.
Evidence limits
The detailed case chronology comes from a single Falun Gong-affiliated advocacy source. No independently obtained court judgment, state-media report, exact sentencing date, formal charge, fine, or current prison assignment was located. The connection between the February 2025 trial and the later five-year-three-month roster entry is plausible but not explicitly stated by a source, so it is not asserted as a verified fact.
Person profile: Tong Mingyu 佟明宇