The Case and Biography of Ms. Yan Ling, a 79-Year-Old Falun Gong Practitioner from Nantong, Jiangsu, Sentenced to Three Years

(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) On September 4, 2026, this publication learned of the case and biography of Ms. Yan Ling, a 79-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Nantong, Jiangsu, who was sentenced to three years. The details are hereby reported as follows:

Yan Ling: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Nantong, Jiangsu, born in 1947 and 79 years old in 2026. She lives in Tongzhou District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province. She began practicing Falun Gong in February 1998. After the CCP began its frenzied persecution of Falun Gong, Yan Ling continued to uphold her belief in Falun Gong and was abducted and illegally detained many times; she was sent to a labor camp once (2004) and sentenced to prison twice (2015 and 2020), suffering brutal persecution in brainwashing classes, detention centers, labor camps, and prisons, until this time, when at nearly 80 years of age, she was illegally sentenced to three years for the third time.

On August 27, 2025, Yan Ling, a septuagenarian from Tongzhou District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, was arrested by police from the Domestic Security Brigade of the Tongzhou Branch of the Nantong Municipal Public Security Bureau and detained in Nantong Detention Center. In September 2026, it was learned that Yan Ling, who had been detained for more than a year, had been sentenced to three years and had already been transferred to Nanjing Women's Prison to serve her sentence. Her sentence runs until August 26, 2028.