Wang Xiuyu (王秀玉), a Falun Gong practitioner from Nantai Town, Haicheng City in Liaoning Province, was sentenced to three years in prison in July 2025. She was detained by officers of the Nantai Town police station on March 6, 2025, and her home was searched. The Lishan District procuratorate in Anshan City approved her arrest on March 18, 2025. She was indicted on May 8, 2025, tried by the Lishan District Court on June 26, 2025, and sentenced to three years on July 7, 2025; the specific charge and the place of detention were not reported by the available sources.
According to the prisoner database of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), Wang appealed to the Anshan Intermediate People’s Court, which had received the case file by July 28, 2025; the outcome of the appeal is not known. The CHRD record lists her prison term as running to March 5, 2028. It also notes a prior four-year sentence imposed by the Haicheng City court in 2008.
Wang appears in the Rights Defense Network’s August 2026 monthly prisoner list in the group sentenced to three years. She is documented as currently imprisoned.
Name note: Several other people in China share the name Wang Xiuyu (王秀玉), including Falun Gong practitioners detained in Lingyuan (2025), Yantai (2014), and Weifang (2011). This profile concerns only the Haicheng case described above.
Sources: CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database, 王秀玉 record (entered September 16, 2025); Minghui, “辽宁海城市法轮功学员王秀玉被枉判三年上诉” (August 15, 2025), with English editions (April 10 and May 30, 2025); 维权网, Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026. See the Media Profile & Archive for full source detail, per-item verification, and evidentiary limits. Wording such as “illegal” in the cited reports is the sources’ characterization.
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