Yang Fujun (杨福军) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yushu City in Jilin Province. According to reports by the Falun Dafa information network Minghui, he was 57 years old in 2025 and had been repeatedly detained for his faith since 1999: held from August to October 1999, given three one-year terms of forced labor in 2001, 2005 and 2009, and detained for five days after an arrest on December 13, 2019.
On December 30, 2024, officers from the Yushu City Domestic Security Office arrested Yang and fellow practitioner Du Changjiang after discovering that the two had been helping people install satellite dishes to receive uncensored overseas news reporting on the persecution of Falun Gong. A third practitioner, Fan Yunpeng, was seized the next day; a fourth, Lyu Xianfeng, was arrested the same day in Baise City, Guangxi, while purchasing satellite dishes, and was taken back to Yushu. Formal arrest warrants for all four were issued on January 23, 2025.
On August 18, 2025, the Dehui City Court sentenced Yang to four and a half years in prison and fined him 10,000 yuan. Du Changjiang, Lyu Xianfeng and Fan Yunpeng each received five and a half years. A January 2026 Minghui report noted that Yang and Fan Yunpeng were transferred to Jilin City Prison on December 2, 2025. The Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 in-custody roster (August 31, 2026) lists Yang Fujun among those sentenced to four and a half years, consistent with the reported sentence being served.
Sources and limitations. All case facts in this profile come from Minghui reports (January 2025, October–November 2025, January 2026), a practitioner-run news network. No charge article is named in any located source; no trial transcript, court judgment, or independent press coverage of the sentence has been located. His Chinese name (杨福军) is confirmed from the Chinese edition of the Issue 131 roster. Neither the courts nor the authorities have commented publicly on the case.
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