Profile: Wu Qingyuan (吴青元)
Wu Qingyuan (吴青元) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the documented case record for Wu Qingyuan, a Changchun Falun Gong practitioner in his seventies serving a five-and-a-half-year sentence.
Case chronology
- 1996 — Began practicing Falun Gong.
- 1999–2024 — Repeated harassment, detention and home raids following the start of the Falun Gong suppression; two terms in labor camps; at least five home searches, with personal property and money reported seized.
- February 29, 2024 — Officers of the Jingyue Avenue police station, Changchun, searched his home and took Wu Qingyuan and his wife to the station for questioning. His wife, in her seventies, was rejected by the detention center after failing the medical examination; Wu Qingyuan was held at the Changchun detention center (the municipal public-security custody center).
- 2024 — Prosecuted and sentenced to five years and six months’ imprisonment; the recorded term runs to August 28, 2029. The sentencing court is reported differently by the two principal case records (see sources note). He was placed in the medical ward of the Changchun detention center.
- August 31, 2026 — Named in the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 roster of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience currently in custody, in the 5-years-6-months sentence group.
Sources preserved
- Minghui case report, September 13, 2024 — detailed account of the February 2024 detention, the couple’s treatment, prior labor-camp terms and raids, and the 5.5-year sentence.
- PoC (Prisoners of Conscience) database case record for 吴青元 / Wu Qingyuan (tenchu.org) — structured case biography confirming birth year, gender, Changchun origin, 1996 start of practice, detention date, sentence and term dates, and the detention-center medical ward. The record cites the Minghui report as a further source.
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) Issue 131, August 31, 2026 — roster entry confirming the name (Chinese–English positional match) and the 5.5-year sentence classification, current-custody listing.
Evidentiary limitations
The sentencing court is attributed to the Kuancheng District Court by the Minghui report and to the Jingyue District Court by the PoC record; the sentence length, dates and custody location agree across sources. The specific charge is not stated in either case record. No official court document or state-media report on this case could be located by name.
Profile: Wu Qingyuan (吴青元)