Yu Chunxiang （于春香）, born in 1961, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Dalian, Liaoning Province, who has twice been sentenced to four-year prison terms.
On April 24, 2018, police from the Zhanbei Square station and the Xigang branch in Dalian detained Yu and searched her home; she was held in a detention center. On September 4, 2018, the Xigang District Court opened her trial suddenly, without notifying her family and with no lawyer present. On December 11, 2018, she was sentenced to four years in prison; the written judgment was handed only to her, and her family learned of the sentence when a lawyer they retained visited her at the detention center. Yu appealed to the Dalian Intermediate Court; the outcome of the appeal has not been reported. Her first term ran to April 23, 2022.
On the morning of March 4, 2026, officers from the Xigang branch’s domestic-security unit and the Beijing Street police station entered Yu’s home, searched it, and detained her. She was taken to the Yaojia Detention Center in Dalian. On May 12, 2026, the Ganjingzi Procuratorate indicted her to the courts, and on July 23, 2026, the Ganjingzi Court sentenced her to four years in prison; the charge was not stated. Her term runs to March 3, 2030.
Status note: As of the latest verified records (the July 2026 sentencing; the August 2026 prisoner tally), Yu Chunxiang is in custody serving her sentence. The charge and her exact detention facility are not publicly reported.
Identity note: Yu Chunxiang is not the same person as Yu Chuyan （于春艳） of Daqing, whose name appears next to hers in the prisoner tally, nor as Yu Chunying （于春英） of Weifang, Shandong.