Profile: Wu Youqing (吴有清)
This archive preserves the reporting record on the case of Wu Youqing (吴有清), a Falun Gong practitioner from Gaozhou, Guangdong, sentenced to six years in prison in September 2023. Minghui is a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet; its reports are attributed as such throughout.
Case chronology
- September 26, 2022 (evening): Seized by plainclothes domestic-security officers of the Gaozhou Public Security Bureau while outdoors. (CHRD PoC; Minghui Guangdong edition)
- September 27, 2022 (early morning): Home raided by more than ten officers. (Minghui Guangdong edition)
- September–November 2022: Held at the Xinyi Detention Center; staged hunger strikes; mid-November hospitalized for emergency treatment. (CHRD PoC; Minghui Guangdong edition)
- November 21, 2022: Family informed she had been transferred to the Maoming No.1 Detention Center. (CHRD PoC; Minghui Guangdong edition)
- November 22–28, 2022: Case moved from the Gaozhou Procuratorate to the Maonan Procuratorate for review and prosecution. (Minghui Guangdong edition)
- June 29, 2023: Tried by the Maonan District Court inside the Maoming No.1 Detention Center; defense lawyers entered not-guilty pleas. (Minghui Guangdong edition)
- September 22, 2023 (10:00 a.m.): Sentenced to six years’ imprisonment and a 20,000-yuan fine (judgment dated August 30, 2023); she stated she would appeal. (CHRD PoC; Minghui Guangdong edition)
- November 2023: Maoming Intermediate Court reviewing the appeal; defense counsel submitted written arguments. (Minghui Guangdong edition)
- August 31, 2026: Listed by 维权网 in the sentenced-to-6-years group of its monthly in-custody report (Issue 131). (维权网)
Media records
- Minghui — Guangdong edition No. 699 (December 30, 2023): Full case report — the 2022 arrest and home raid, detention and hunger strikes at Xinyi and Maoming No.1 detention centers, the June 2023 trial with not-guilty pleas, the September 2023 six-year sentence and fine, the appeal, and her earlier labor-camp and prison history. [VERIFIED — opened and read] Original article (PDF)
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience database, individual record for 吴有清 / “Wu Youqing” (record entered October 5, 2023): biographical details (born 1967-02-27, Gaozhou, bank employee), earlier 3-year labor-camp and 4-year prison terms, 2022 arrest, 2023 six-year sentence with 20,000-yuan fine, term through 2028-09-25, detention at Maoming No.1 Detention Center. [VERIFIED — database record read] Database search page
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) — monthly in-custody report, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026): Lists Wu Youqing among the 54 people in the sentenced-to-6-years group. [VERIFIED — cached ZH edition read] Report (EN edition)
Source provenance and limitations
The case reporting comes from a single independent Chinese-language media outlet (Minghui) and the CHRD monitoring database, whose entry cites Minghui as its source. No court judgment or state-media account of the case was located. The charge underlying the six-year sentence is not reported in any located source. Minghui characterizes the proceedings as unlawful (“非法”); that characterization is the outlet’s and is preserved here as attributed reporting, not as an independent finding. The outcome of the November 2023 appeal review is unconfirmed.
Profile: Wu Youqing (吴有清)