Wu Dongmei (吴冬梅)

Wu Dongmei (吴冬梅) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Nong’an County, Jilin Province, who was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment in 2021 in connection with the mass detention of Falun Gong practitioners in Nong’an in July 2020.

She was born in 1972. On July 15, 2020, police in Nong’an County carried out a large-scale roundup of local Falun Gong practitioners, detaining more than 20 people; Wu Dongmei was among them. The detained practitioners were held at the Changchun No. 4 Detention Center and the Nong’an County Detention Center.

In April 2021, twelve of the detained practitioners were tried together at the Dehui City Court; Wu was among the twelve. In July 2021 the court sentenced all twelve to prison terms: Wu Dongmei received a seven-year sentence, the fourth-heaviest among the group (the longest was ten years). The specific charge in her case has not been publicly reported; her sentence term runs to July 14, 2027. All twelve defendants appealed to the Changchun Intermediate Court.

Custody: Wu’s sentence term had not expired as of October 2026 and no release record has been found; she is documented as currently serving her sentence. Her exact current detention facility is not publicly confirmed.

Sources: Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) individual record on Wu Dongmei (record entry 2022-01-01; sentence 7 years, term to 2027-07-14); World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong notice, “追查吉林省长春市农安县迫害张秀芝、蔡玉英等12名法轮功学员的责任人的通告” (2021-10-16).

See also: Media profile and archive of Wu Dongmei.