Yin Hongwei (尹洪伟) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record for Yin Hongwei (尹洪伟), a Falun Gong practitioner from Hulan District, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, sentenced to four years and six months in prison in 2025. His wife Zhou Chunling and daughter Yin Li were detained and sentenced in connected cases. Sources are listed in chronological order with verification notes, and Falun Gong-affiliated and advocacy sources are attributed as such throughout.
Source chronology
WOIPFG investigation notice: “追查黑龙江省哈尔滨市迫害法轮功学员尹洪伟、尹丽父女的责任人的通告” (August 2, 2025; updated December 15, 2025). The notice documents: the December 19, 2024 seizure by Hulan district police; the home search and detention of daughter Yin Li; the brief detention and same-day release of Yin Hongwei’s father; detention in the Hulan district detention center and Harbin No. 2 detention center; formal arrest by the Daowai District procuratorate in late January 2025; trials on June 19 and August 14, 2025 with not-guilty defense pleas; and the resulting sentences — 4 years 6 months for Yin Hongwei, 1 year for Yin Li — with both appealing. It also records wife Zhou Chunling’s 2024 three-year sentence and transfer to the Heilongjiang Women’s Prison. Verification: VERIFIED (PDF fetched and read 2026-10-09 at https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2025/12/9081.pdf; case details cross-match CHRD and Minghui on names, dates, courts, and sentences).
Minghui: “哈尔滨法轮功学员尹洪伟一家三口遭非法判刑” (January 11, 2026). Reports the Daowai District Court sentencing: Yin Hongwei to four and a half years with a 30,000-yuan fine, Yin Li to one year with a 10,000-yuan fine; Yin Hongwei’s appeal rejected by the Harbin Intermediate Court; Yin Li released on December 18, 2025. Also describes the December 2024 detention and home search, the two 2025 trials, and wife Zhou Chunling’s separate three-year sentence. An English version is linked from the article. Verification: VERIFIED (page fetched and read by the 09:33 run; URL recovered from CHRD record’s own “other sources” list; dates, sentences, fines, and appeal outcome cross-match WOIPFG and CHRD).
Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience Database: 尹洪伟 / Yin Hongwei. Database record: male; last detention December 19, 2024; charge unrecorded; sentence 4 years 6 months; term to June 18, 2029; location: Harbin City Detention Center. Narrative covers the arrest, the daughter’s co-detention, the Daowai court trial of June 19, 2025, the sentence, and the rejected appeal. Verification: VERIFIED (record retrieved via the database’s public search, October 2026; full record content preserved in the evidence CSV).
August 31, 2026 — Weiquanwang monthly prisoner roster, Issue 131. Lists 尹洪伟 in the aggregate band of 72 prisoners serving four-year-six-month terms, and in the pinyin Y-index. Roster-level listing only (no case details); consistent with the sentence in the case records above. Verification: VERIFIED (local mirrors of the ZH and EN editions read; positional correspondence re-confirmed 2026-10-09; canonical URL https://www.chinahrc.org/content/43092/ confirmed in the ZH mirror).
Related record — wife’s published pair: Zhou Chunling (周春玲) person profile and media archive on this site (posts 17288/17289) describe the same family case and explicitly distinguish Yin Hongwei as a different person. Kept as a cross-reference, not merged.
Evidence gaps
- No official court verdict or government record for this case was located.
- The specific criminal charge is not stated in any source reviewed.
- Sources differ on the exact detention facility: the CHRD record gives the Harbin City Detention Center; the WOIPFG notice gives the Hulan district detention center and Harbin No. 2 detention center (father and daughter held separately). The discrepancy is unreconciled — possibly a transfer, or the sources recording different stages.
- Minghui dates the sentencing to December 2025 while the CHRD term-to date (June 18, 2029) is anchored to the detention date with standard time-served counting; the exact sentencing date is not pinned down.
- No consular or diplomatic dimension was found; no PRC official source addresses this individual case.