Identification
Yang Jie (杨洁） is a Falun Gong practitioner from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. According to the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) database of prisoners of conscience in mainland China, she was born in 1961, graduated from Zhejiang University with a bachelor’s degree, and formerly worked for the Zhejiang Medical Care Import and Export Company. She was arrested in November 2023, tried on August 9, 2024, and sentenced in December 2024 by the Xihu District Court in Hangzhou to two years and ten months in prison; the specific charge was not stated in the record. The CHRD record, updated October 6, 2026, lists her as released, with the sentence term ending in September 2026.
Case history
According to a Minghui case file on Yang Jie, she has faced repeated detention since 1999 in connection with her Falun Gong practice: a fifteen-day detention in December 1999; about twenty days of detention around the 2001 New Year; a two-year labor-camp term beginning in June 2001; a six-year prison sentence imposed in April 2005; a five-year sentence imposed in November 2012 (she was released in November 2017); detention again in July 2018, followed by a two-year-and-eight-month sentence on October 17, 2018; and release around April–May 2021. The case file reports that she disappeared in late November 2023, was prosecuted in 2024, tried on August 9, 2024, and sentenced in December 2024 to two years and ten months; it also reports that she appealed the sentence in December 2024. The outcome of the appeal is not documented in the sources reviewed.
Status
According to the CHRD database record updated October 6, 2026, Yang Jie was released in September 2026. (The release is recorded by CHRD; no official confirmation was located. The publisher may re-verify before publication.)
Related
This profile is for the Yang Jie from Hangzhou, Zhejiang (born 1961). A separate person also named Yang Jie, from Zhongwei, Ningxia (born 1970), is documented independently and must not be confused with her.
Sources
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Database of Prisoners of Conscience in Mainland China, record for 杨洁 / Yang Jie — https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/pocs/3956
- Minghui case file for 杨洁 — https://library.minghui.org/victim/i30946.htm
- Rights Defense Network (维权网）, “Monthly Report on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Mainland China,” Issue 131 (August 31, 2026) — https://www.chinahrc.org/content/43092/
Media Profile & Archive: Yang Jie (Zhejiang) (杨洁) — Media Profile and Status Archive