Yang Qiang (杨强) — Media Profile & Archive
Person profile: Yang Qiang (杨强) — Political Prisoner Profile
Yang Qiang (杨强), a Falun Gong practitioner from Dashiqiao City, Yingkou, Liaoning Province, was sentenced in August 2026 to one year and six months in prison with a 10,000-yuan fine — one of nine defendants tried together in the “Dashiqiao Nine” case. This archive collects the documented reporting on his case in chronological order.
November 2025: the arrests
On November 25, 2025, police in Dashiqiao detained a group of Falun Gong practitioners, including Yang Qiang, following about six months of telephone surveillance, the Falun Dafa Information Center reported. Yang was arrested by the Meidu Police Station and held at the Dashiqiao City Detention Center (Rights Defense Network). The detainees were formally arrested in late December 2025 and indicted by the Zhanqian District Procuratorate (Falun Dafa Information Center).
July 2026: the trial
On July 16–17, 2026, the nine defendants were tried at the Zhanqian District Court, with Gao Yue presiding and Xin Runhong assisting, Bitter Winter reported. A World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong notice concerning co-defendant Zhang Yuzhen corroborates the shared sweep circumstances — the November 2025 operation, the late-December 2025 procuratorate action, and the mid-July 2026 trial window.
August 2026: the verdict
On August 11, 2026, judgment (2026) Liao 0802 Xing Chu No. 72 was issued. Yang Qiang was sentenced to one year and six months in prison with a 10,000-yuan fine, with the term running through May 24, 2027 (Rights Defense Network case biography; Falun Dafa Information Center sentence table). Bitter Winter’s verdict report confirmed the full nine-defendant sentence table and added that Yang’s wife is Xing Chun’e, sister of co-defendant Xing Dongmei, and that Yang had previously served forced-labor terms in connection with his practice.
Source notes and limitations
- The judgment number, dates, and sentence are reported by the cited outlets (Rights Defense Network, Falun Dafa Information Center, Bitter Winter) and have not been independently verified against a published court document.
- No prison-admission record for Yang has been located; his whereabouts beyond the Dashiqiao City Detention Center are not publicly documented.
- Yang’s earlier forced-labor history is reported by Bitter Winter without dates, documents, or case numbers.
- Minghui.org’s August 21 reporting is cited within the Falun Dafa Information Center article but was not opened directly.
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