Yu Yaou (于亚欧) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record for Yu Yaou (于亚欧）, reported as a Falun Gong practitioner from Jinan, Shandong Province, reported as serving a one-year-six-month prison sentence, with source attributions and the limits of what is known. The case narrative comes from the CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database and Minghui (a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet); detention-treatment claims are single-source and published only with explicit attribution.
Identity linkage note
The Rights Defense Network (维权网) Issue 131 roster lists “Yu Y aou” in romanized form only. The Chinese name 于亚欧 used here rests on converging anchors: its exact positional match in the Chinese edition’s surname index (…于素华、于亚欧、于艳华… against …Yu Suhua, Yu Y aou, Yu Yanhua…); the roster’s under-two-years sentence group containing 于亚欧 against the CHRD record’s 1-year-6-month term; the CHRD PoC record’s case anchors (Jinan, South China Botanical Garden doctoral student, wife Li Shanshan); a 2010 Minghui report naming the same 于亚欧 — same school, same wife, Jinan origin — persecuted over his dissertation; and the published FreeChina.live pages for his wife Li Shanshan, which independently identify her husband Yu Ya’ou. Caveat: no official court or prison document has been located; the case record comes from monitoring organizations and a Falun Gong-affiliated outlet.
Archived reporting
CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database, record for 于亚欧 (“Yu Ya’ou”), entered July 21, 2026. Male, Jinan, Shandong; Falun Gong practitioner; former doctoral student, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences; wife Li Shanshan; detained July 2025 with his wife; Jinan City Detention Center; sentenced June 2026 to 1 year 6 months (wife 3 years 6 months); charge not identified; reported term endpoint January 2027; alleges the wife undertook a hunger strike and was force-fed in detention (single-source claim, no independent confirmation located). https://www.tenchu.org/pocd/public/dosearch (search-gated database; record retrieved by exact-name query October 9, 2026)
Minghui.org, “中科院华南植物园要求父亲举报儿子” (April 22, 2010). Yu, a doctoral student at the South China Botanical Garden, denied his defense and graduation after thanking Falun Dafa in his dissertation; expelled; pressure on his father to report him; recounts the couple’s 2008 Guilin detention and brainwashing-facility confinement. https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/4/22/221975.html
Rights Defense Network (维权网), 《中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告》 Issue 131 (August 31, 2026). Roster data point: lists 于亚欧 in the 判刑2年以下 (under two years) sentence group and in the surname index. Dated evidence of reported custody as of August 31, 2026.
Not located
- Any official court judgment, sentencing-court identity, or prison record.
- Any reporting on the exact arrest date in July 2025.
- Any state-media or official account of the case.
- Any second independent (non-Falun Gong-affiliated) report.
Family cross-reference
His wife Li Shanshan’s person and media pages are published separately on this site; the two accounts are linked as family, not merged.