Case Details and Profile of Ms. Yao Xiurong, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, Sentenced to 3 Years and 6 Months
(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) On September 28, 2026, this website learned of the case details and profile of Ms. Yao Xiurong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, who was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months. The details are reported as follows:
Yao Xiurong: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, born in 1966 and aged 60 in 2026. She previously worked at the coking and gas plant of Tangshan Iron and Steel Company and began practicing Falun Gong in 1997.
On the morning of October 28, 2025, Yao Xiurong and five other Falun Gong practitioners were telling members of the public about Falun Gong at the Niangniangzhuang market in Zunhua City when police from the Chengguan Police Station in Fengrun District arrested them and took them to the Fengrun District Public Security Bureau. That day, personnel from the Fengrun District Public Security Bureau also searched their homes. Yao Xiurong and the others were detained at the Tangshan No. 1 Detention Center. They were later placed under criminal detention, formally arrested, and prosecuted. On September 22, 2026, Yao Xiurong was sentenced by the Zunhua City Court to 3 years and 6 months in prison and fined 10,000 yuan; her sentence runs through April 27, 2029.
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