Yu Guizhen (于桂珍) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record for Yu Guizhen (于桂珍）, a Falun Gong practitioner from Changchun, Jilin Province, serving a five-year sentence. Sources are listed in chronological order with verification notes. Falun Gong-affiliated sources are attributed as such throughout.
July 28, 2023 — World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), case notice. WOIPFG published a case notice concerning Yu Guizhen, 57, of Changchun: detention from her home on the evening of October 16, 2021 by Lüyuan District Xixin Police Station officers; 17 days in the Weizigou Detention Center followed by transfer to the Changchun No. 4 Detention Center; arrest approval by the Lüyuan District Procuratorate; a five-year sentence handed down by the Changchun Chaoyang District Court in June 2022; appeal rejected by the Changchun Intermediate Court; transfer to the 8th Ward of the Jilin Women’s Prison on December 7, 2022. The notice names the police, procuratorate, court, detention-center, and prison officials it holds responsible, and states that Yu Guizhen had twice previously been held in the Changchun Heizhuzi women’s labor facility for a cumulative period of more than four years. https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2023/07/8482.pdf
August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network (维权网), Issue-131 report. Yu Guizhen appears by name in the roster’s five-year sentence group (111 people listed in that group), confirming the sentence length from an independent monitoring source.
Source provenance and limitations
- WOIPFG is a Falun Gong-affiliated monitoring organization; its descriptions of the proceedings as unlawful and its naming of responsible officials are the organization’s own characterizations 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 于桂珍.