Yang Liyan — Media Profile & Archive
Person profile: Yang Liyan — Political Prisoner Profile
This page preserves the dated public record on Yang Liyan (杨丽艳) of Songyuan City, Jilin Province — a Falun Gong practitioner reported sentenced to ten years in late 2020 — with source attributions and the limits of what is known.
Case chronology
- September 10, 2019 — Ms. Yang Liyan, a Falun Gong practitioner of the Hongguang Farm No. 6 Team in Songyuan, Jilin, is taken away by Songyuan public-security officers in a coordinated arrest of thirteen practitioners; her husband Chen Hailin, who does not practice Falun Gong, is also seized, and their home is searched (EN Minghui, 2019-09-22; Minghui library record).
- September 2019 – late 2020 — Ms. Yang is held at the Shanyou Detention Center in Songyuan. (EN Minghui, 2019-09-22; Minghui library record)
- December 4, 2020 — According to the Minghui case record, after more than a year in detention, the Qianguo’erluosi Court sentences her to ten years in prison (prosecutor Liu Wenjun); she is transferred to Jilin Prison. EN Minghui’s 2021 sentencing summary independently records entry #104: 杨丽艳 / Yang Liyan, Jilin, Songyuan, sentenced December 2020, 10 years.
- August 31, 2026 — The Rights Defense Network’s monthly report of mainland political prisoners and prisoners of conscience (Issue 131) places Yang Liyan in its fixed-term-imprisonment section in the “sentenced to ten years” group (Chinese edition).
Case actors named in reporting
- Songyuan City Public Security Bureau national-security team (arresting authority, per Minghui).
- Prosecutor Liu Wenjun (检察员刘文军), named in the Minghui case record for the sentencing stage.
- Qianguo’erluosi Court (sentencing court, per Minghui).
Co-defendants / separate persons (DO NOT MERGE)
- Yang Liyan, Guangzhou — project cost engineer at Meilin Jiye Group; arrested January 19, 2010; one year in a forced-labor camp. Different city, decade, and outcome — different person.
- Yang Liyan, Baoqing County, Heilongjiang — arrested June 19, 2017 with Ms. Cui Xiaohong. No matching case anchors — do not merge.
Source provenance and limitations
All case facts come from Minghui-affiliated reporting (news items, the Minghui library case record) and the prisoners-of-conscience database that republishes the Minghui case record. No corroborating source (court document, official procedural record, international media, or human-rights NGO report) has been located for Yang’s case specifically. The formal charge and her current detention facility are unattested — neither is inferred. The release date of September 9, 2029 is the database’s record, not an independently confirmed official finding.
Consulate / official-source check
Ms. Yang is a PRC national; there is no consular dimension to the case. PRC government sources searched (court notices, state media): no official acknowledgment of her case found. Result: not found; the case record rests on Minghui-affiliated reporting and the prisoners-of-conscience database.
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