Yang Qiang (杨强)
Yang Qiang (杨强) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Dashiqiao City, Yingkou, in Liaoning Province. In August 2026 he was sentenced to one year and six months in prison with a 10,000-yuan fine in connection with his practice of Falun Gong, as one of nine defendants tried together in what monitors have called the “Dashiqiao Nine” case.
Yang was arrested on November 25, 2025, by the Meidu Police Station, after about six months of telephone surveillance, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center. He was held at the Dashiqiao City Detention Center, formally arrested in late December 2025, and indicted by the Zhanqian District Procuratorate.
The case was tried at the Zhanqian District Court on July 16–17, 2026. Judgment (2026) Liao 0802 Xing Chu No. 72 was issued on August 11, 2026, sentencing Yang to eighteen months, with the sentence running through May 24, 2027, according to the Rights Defense Network (维权网).
According to Bitter Winter, Yang’s wife is Xing Chun’e, the sister of co-defendant Xing Dongmei, and Yang had served forced-labor terms in earlier years in connection with his practice.
As of the latest dated reporting (August–September 2026), Yang was serving his sentence. The case details — including the judgment number, dates, and sentence — are reported by the cited monitors and have not been independently verified against a published court document.
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