Yu Guichun (于桂春) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record for Yu Guichun (于桂春）, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shenyang, Liaoning Province, serving an eight-year sentence. Sources are listed in chronological order with verification notes. Falun Gong-affiliated sources are attributed as such throughout.
June 7, 2024 — Minghui (via the 2024 annual sentencing statistics, published January 6, 2025). Minghui reported that three elderly Shenyang practitioners — Yu Guichun (72), Li Yongmei (79), and Zhang Yujin (79) — had their second-instance rulings issued, upholding the original verdicts: eight years for Yu Guichun, five years for Li Yongmei, and four and a half years for Zhang Yujin, with fines of 50,000, 30,000, and 25,000 yuan respectively. The report stated the three remained in the Shenyang No. 1 Detention Center at that time. https://stateofmankind.net/PDF/phjs1.pdf (mirror of the Minghui annual statistics)
August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue-131 report. Yu Guichun appears by name in the roster’s eight-year sentence group (69 people listed in that group), confirming the sentence length from an independent monitoring source.
Source provenance and limitations
- Minghui is an established independent Chinese-language outlet documenting Falun Gong practitioners’ cases; its descriptions of proceedings as unlawful are the outlet’s own characterization and are presented here as attributed reporting, not as independently verified legal findings.
- No official court verdict or state-media record for this case was found in public sources searched.
- The CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database was queried on October 9, 2026 and returned no record for 于桂春.