Yu Chunxiang （于春香） — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record for Yu Chunxiang （于春香）, a Falun Gong practitioner from Dalian, Liaoning Province, born in 1961, who was sentenced to four years in prison on July 23, 2026 — her second four-year term. Sources are listed in chronological order with verification notes. Falun Gong-affiliated sources are attributed as such throughout.
Identification
Yu Chunxiang （于春香）, female, born in 1961, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Dalian, Liaoning Province. The Chinese form of her name is confirmed by positional alignment between the English and Chinese editions of the 2026 practitioner-imprisonment tally and is used independently by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) Prisoners of Conscience database and the Minghui Radio case report. She is not the same person as Yu Chuyan （于春艳） of Daqing, whose name appears next to hers in the tally.
Status
Sentenced to four years on July 23, 2026, by the Ganjingzi Court, Dalian; term runs to March 3, 2030. This was her second four-year sentence; she served the first from 2018 to 2022. No release reported. The criminal charge and her exact detention facility are not publicly reported.
Case chronology
- April 24, 2018 — Detained by Dalian Zhanbei Square police station and Xigang branch police; home searched; held in a detention center.
- September 4, 2018 — Tried suddenly by the Xigang District Court, Dalian, without family notification and with no lawyer present.
- December 11, 2018 — Sentenced to 4 years; written judgment given only to her; family learned of it through a retained lawyer’s detention-center visit. Yu appealed to the Dalian Intermediate Court (outcome unreported).
- April 23, 2022 — First term ended.
- March 4, 2026 — Officers from the Xigang branch domestic-security unit and the Beijing Street police station entered her home, searched it, and detained her; taken to the Dalian Yaojia Detention Center.
- May 12, 2026 — Indicted to the courts by the Ganjingzi Procuratorate.
- July 23, 2026 — Sentenced by the Ganjingzi Court to 4 years; term to March 3, 2030.
Media records
Minghui Radio, 2019 program report. Covering the 2018 case: the April 24, 2018 detention, the September 4, 2018 trial held without family notice or counsel, the December 11, 2018 four-year sentence, and Yu’s appeal to the Dalian Intermediate Court. https://www.mhradio.org/showprogram/8147.html
CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database, record for 于春香 (“Yu Chunxiang”), entered December 18, 2019. Full two-sentence history: the 2018 case (arrest, trial, sentence, term to April 23, 2022) and the 2026 re-arrest (March 4, 2026), indictment (May 12, 2026), and four-year sentence (July 23, 2026, term to March 3, 2030). https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/dosearch (search: 于春香）
Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue 131 prisoner tally, August 31, 2026. Lists “Yu Chunxiang” / 于春香 in the four-year group (171 people).
Contradictions and gaps
- The 2026 re-arrest, indictment, and sentencing are reported by the CHRD record alone; no independent media report of the 2026 case was located.
- The criminal charge is not stated in any source; do not speculate.
- The detention facility after the July 2026 sentencing is not reported.
- The outcome of the 2018 appeal has not been reported.
- No official court record or state-media coverage of the case was located.