Wang Yaru (王亚茹) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Siping City, Jilin Province, who was transferred to the Jilin Province Women’s Prison in early 2023 to serve a seven-year term for her religious practice.
### Arrest and detention
According to reporting by Minghui, Ms. Wang, then 58, was arrested in September 2022 for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong. She was held at the Siping City Detention Center, where, the report says, guards tortured her and denied her family visits. The earliest report of her case (October 2022) identifies her as a Lishu County resident who had then been held in the detention center for over a month.
### Court appearance and conviction
Ms. Wang appeared in court in mid-October 2022 and was later convicted. The May 2023 report notes that details of her sentencing were not available at the time of that report.
### Imprisonment
In early January 2023, Ms. Wang was transferred to the Jilin Province Women’s Prison to serve a seven-year term.
### A note on identity
The Chinese characters 王亚茹 are fixed by the Rights Defense Network (维权网) August 2026 prisoner report’s Chinese–English name equation; no Falun Gong source read for this profile prints the characters. The English-side identity — Wang Yaru of Siping/Lishu, Jilin, sentenced to a seven-year term — is documented by two Minghui reports seven months apart.
### A note on status
The most recent dated source places Ms. Wang at the Jilin Province Women’s Prison in early January 2023. She is listed in the August 2026 Rights Defense Network (维权网) monthly roster of mainland political prisoners in the seven-year-sentence band, but no dated source after 2023 documents her current circumstances. This profile does not state that she is currently imprisoned, has been released, or has died; it reports only what dated sources establish.
### A note on sourcing
All case details above are reported by Minghui, a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet. No court verdict, indictment, or official record of this case is publicly available. Evaluative language in the original reports is the outlet’s characterization, not an independent finding.
View the Wang Yaru Media Profile & Archive for full source detail, the case chronology, and provenance.