Tong Mingyu (佟明宇) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Shuangcheng District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. Rights Defense Network / 维权网 Issue 131 dated August 31, 2026 lists him among reported in-custody cases in the five-years-and-three-months fixed-term subgroup.
According to the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, Tong was detained on November 20, 2024 while visiting fellow practitioner Liu Shuwen. The organization reports that both were taken to the Daoli District Detention Center and that Tong’s formal arrest was approved on December 5, 2024.
The same source reports that Tong refused interrogation, went on hunger strike for more than two months, and was force-fed. It reports that he was tried at the Daoli District Court on February 13, 2025.
Earlier case and current status
WOIPFG also reports that Tong previously served a three-year-six-month prison term beginning in 2017 at Tailai Prison. Issue 131 dated August 31, 2026 lists Tong Mingyu as the sole person in its five-years-and-three-months subgroup.
No source located provides the sentencing date, sentencing court, formal charge, fine, or current prison assignment for the five-year-three-month term. No release date is inferred.
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