Person profile: Yu Aiming (余爱明) — Political Prisoner Profile
This page collects the published reporting on the case of Yu Aiming (余爱明), a petitioner from Fuqing, Fujian, confined in a psychiatric hospital after seeking the Central Inspection Team in August 2022, with source attributions and the limits of what is known.
Source chronology
2022-08-06 — 维权网 report. Headline: “余爱明因到中央巡视组在福州的下榻处信访被’人民’政府囚禁精神病院”. Reports that Fuqing petitioner Yu Aiming was seized on August 3, 2022 at the Fuzhou Grand Hotel while seeking the Central Inspection Team; her son reported to the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau and received a case-acceptance receipt from the Antai Police Station confirming she had been placed in the Fu Le (Jia) Yuan psychiatric hospital in Fuqing. The report situates her case among other Fuzhou-area petitioners confined in psychiatric hospitals, including He Guanjiao. URL: wqw2010.blogspot.com — verified (opened and read). Provenance: 维权网 is an established independent Chinese-language rights media outlet. The article’s characterizations are its own; the detention facts are as reported.
2022-09-07 — CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database record. Record for 余爱明 / “YU AI MING”: female; taken 2022-08-03; no charge/sentence/release recorded; location: Fuqing Fu Le Jia Yuan. Bio: female petitioner from Fuqing; petitioned over land seized by the local government; seized August 3, 2022 at the Fuzhou Grand Hotel while seeking the Central Inspection Team; her son received the Fuzhou police case-acceptance receipt confirming her placement in the Fuqing psychiatric hospital. Verified (direct database query). Provenance: CHRD is a recognized international human-rights NGO.
2026-08-31 — 维权网 Issue-131 report. 余爱明 appears in the Fujian 6-person group: 陈天茂、刘建新、何观娇、余爱明、毛慧斌、林爱钦 — positionally matching the English report’s “Chen Tianmao, Liu Jianxin, He Guanjiao, Yu Aiming, Mao Huibin, Lin Aiqin”. Verified via report mirror.
Chinese Headline News item (cited by CHRD). The CHRD record cites an additional source at chineseheadlinenews.com; the URL returned HTTP 404 — recorded as broken, not cited for facts.
Evidentiary limitations
- The psychiatric hospital’s name is rendered slightly differently across sources (福乐家园医院 in the CHRD record; 福乐园精神病医院 in the 维权网 article) — both place it in Fuqing and describe the same placement.
- No medical, police, or court documents are publicly available; the detention facts rest on the 维权网 report and the CHRD record.
- No PRC official-source or state-media coverage found.
- Nothing has been verified about Yu Aiming’s situation after August 2022 — no release, transfer, or continued detention can be stated.
Person profile: Yu Aiming (余爱明) — Political Prisoner Profile