Person profile: Yang Shuqin (杨淑琴)
Yang Shuqin (杨淑琴) — Media Archive
A record of reported coverage and source material on the detention and sentencing of Yang Shuqin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Fushun, Liaoning, serving four years in the Liaoning Provincial Women's Prison (term to 6 December 2027). Source provenance and evidentiary limits are recorded per item. Claims of ill-treatment by advocacy sources are attributed, not stated as independently verified fact.
Record 1 — Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database (CHRD PoC)
Database record (entered 2025-04-08) for 杨淑琴 / Yang Shuqin: female, born 1963; taken away 7 December 2023; charge listed as unknown; sentence four years; release date 6 December 2027; held at Liaoning Provincial Women's Prison. The record's summary describes her as a Falun Gong practitioner living in Shuncheng District, Fushun; arrested on the morning of 7 December 2023 on the west side of Liudao Street for telling people about Falun Gong; detained, formally arrested, and prosecuted; held at the Fushun detention center with no news for a time; later sentenced to four years on undisclosed charges and transferred to the Liaoning Provincial Women's Prison. The record cites a Minghui victim page (see Record 2) as its further source. Source type: rights-monitoring database.
Record 2 — Minghui (明慧网) victim archive page for Yang Shuqin (updated 30 May 2026)
Victim profile: 杨淑琴 (Yang, Shuqin), female, 62, Falun Gong practitioner of Fushun City, Liaoning, residing in Shuncheng District. The page reports that on 7 December 2023 at about 11:00, Yang was reported for telling passers-by about Falun Gong on the west side of Liudao Street and was taken by police; her home was searched that afternoon and she was placed under criminal detention that evening. It reports that in March 2025 it was learned she had been sentenced to four years and transferred to the Liaoning Provincial Women's Prison, and lists related Minghui reporting and the responsible units and individuals. The page's characterizations of legality and its calls for her release are the outlet's advocacy positions, recorded as such. Source type: Falun Gong–affiliated victim archive.
Record 3 — Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 monthly report (31 August 2026)
Statistical table lists "Yang Shuqin" / 杨淑琴 in the "Sentenced to 4 years, 171 people" group. Establishes the name, Chinese characters, and sentence classification as of 31 August 2026. Source type: rights-monitoring organization report. The report describes itself as an incomplete list that may contain errors; all figures attributed to the reporting organization.
Evidence gaps
No court judgment, prosecution record, or official charge sheet is publicly available; the formal charge is reported as unknown by all sources; no PRC official or state-media record of this individual found; trial date and court undisclosed. No contradictions between sources on the core facts (name, city, dates, sentence, prison).
Do-not-merge note: a different prisoner, 杨秀花 (Yang Xiuhua) of Qiqihar, and other phonetically similar records (张淑琴, 孙淑清) are separate persons and must not be confused with this case.
Person profile: Yang Shuqin (杨淑琴)