Person profile: Yu Mei (余梅) — Political Prisoner Profile
This page collects the published reporting on the case of Yu Mei (余梅), a Falun Gong practitioner from Chikan District, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, sentenced to three years in March 2025, with source attributions and the limits of what is known.
Case chronology
- 1997 — Yu Mei begins practicing Falun Gong. (CHRD; Minghui.org, attributed)
- August 2016 — Detained after sending text messages about Falun Gong; held at Zhanjiang No. 1 Detention Center. (Minghui.org, attributed)
- December 2017 — Sentenced to 4 years by Chikan District Court; serves term in Guangdong Women’s Prison. (Minghui.org, attributed)
- May 14, 2023 — Detained with Wu Shaochuan for 15 days after speaking with the public about Falun Gong. (Minghui.org, attributed)
- September 16, 2024 — Arrested with Wu Shaochuan at Guanghui Market, Chikan District, by Chikan district police (Haitian, Cunjin stations); homes searched; placed in Zhanjiang City Detention Center. (CHRD; Minghui.org 2025-10-17)
- 2024–2025 — Case transferred to Chikan District Procuratorate, then Chikan District Court. (CHRD; Minghui.org 2025-10-17)
- March 19, 2025 — Tried at Chikan District Court. (CHRD; Minghui.org 2025-10-17)
- ~October 2025 (reported) — Sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment; charge not publicly reported. (CHRD; Minghui.org 2025-10-17)
- August 31, 2026 — Listed in 维权网 Issue 131 roster, “Sentenced to 3 years, 110 people” group. (Issue-131 Chinese/English roster)
Note: a Minghui.org site-search listing (December 9, 2025) indicates Yu Mei and Wu Shaochuan appealed the verdict, but the article body could not be retrieved — unverified, not cited for facts.
Media records
Item 1 — VERIFIED. Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), Prisoners of Conscience database (recognized human-rights NGO) — record for 余梅 (“Yu Mei”), entered 2025-11-10. Establishes identity (name, English name, birth year 1967, Falun Gong practitioner, Chikan District Zhanjiang), arrest date 2024-09-16, co-arrestee Wu Shaochuan, trial 2025-03-19, 3-year sentence, detention at Zhanjiang City Detention Center, and prior persecution history. This database is the individual-record source named by the 维权网 Issue-131 report itself. Database query: tenchu.org/pocd/public/dosearch. Opened and read; single exact record returned for 余梅.
Item 2 — VERIFIED. Minghui.org (practitioner-run Chinese-language outlet; subject-community media — attributed), October 17, 2025: “广东湛江市法轮功学员余梅和吴少川被枉判三年”. Dedicated article confirming the arrest (2024-09-16, Guanghui Market, Haitian/Cunjin police), detention, trial (2025-03-19, Chikan District Court), 3-year sentences, and Yu Mei’s personal background (58 years old, practicing since 1997) and prior detentions. Opened and read in full; all key facts align with the CHRD record and roster.
Item 3 — VERIFIED. Rights Defense Network (维权网) Issue 131 report (recognized rights-monitoring network), roster cutoff 2026-08-31, Chinese and English editions. Places 余梅 ↔ “Yu Mei” in the 判刑3年 / “Sentenced to 3 years, 110 people” group with neighbor-equation alignment (Wu Shaochuan/吴少川 before, Guo Xingmei/郭兴梅 after in both editions) — the positional basis for the Chinese-character resolution. Local corpus mirror; opened and read.
Evidentiary notes
- The CHRD record’s release-date field (2027-05-19) conflicts with its own bio text (term through 2027-09-15, which aligns with 3 years from the 2024-09-16 arrest). Both values are recorded; the narrative date is more consistent with the case timeline. Neither is published as a confirmed release date.
- The criminal charge was not reported in any available source — record as “charge not publicly reported,” never infer.
- Torture/prior-detention details rest entirely on practitioner-run outlets (Minghui.org) — attributed in copy, never stated as independently verified fact.
- No independent international-media, court, or official coverage located.
- Name-collision note: web searches for 余梅 also surface 余华英 (Yu Huaying), a convicted child trafficker — a different person, excluded from this record.
Person profile: Yu Mei (余梅) — Political Prisoner Profile