(Minghui.org)
Name: Yang JinhuiChinese Name: 杨锦辉Gender: FemaleAge: 65City: GejiuProvince: YunnanOccupation: former government employeeDate of Death: May 3, 2026Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 10, 2026Most Recent Place of Detention: Honghe Prefecture Detention Center
A 65-year-old woman in Gejiu City, Yunnan Province, was arrested on April 10, 2026, while on a train back home from a family vacation. The arresting officers from the Kaiyuan City Railway said they received an order from higher-ups to closely monitor her because she was a Falun Gong practitioner.
Falun Gong is a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Yang Jinhui was put in the Honghe Prefecture Detention Center located in the prefectural capital of Mengzi City. Honghe Prefecture oversees both Gejiu City and Kaiyuan City.
Ms. Yang’s family was notified on May 3 that she had just died. They rushed to the detention center and were told that Ms. Yang “had a heart attack, and the resuscitation was unsuccessful.”
The family asked to see the surveillance videos. In the footage shown to them, Ms. Yang was seen washing her clothes when she suddenly collapsed.
The family requested an autopsy, but it is unclear whether the detention center had agreed to it. Other details of the case also remain to be investigated.
Prior to her latest persecution episode, Ms. Yang was repeatedly targeted for upholding her faith. She was arrested on February 24, 2012, and sentenced to three years in July that year.
After she was released from the Yunnan Province Second Women’s Prison on January 23, 2015, Ms. Yang was fired from her job as a government employee and denied her right to pension benefits. She filed complaints against her perpetrators to various government agencies, only to be arrested on July 27, 2024, and detained for 13 days.
Ms. Yang went on a vacation with her family on April 8, 2026, and was arrested two days later on her way home. She died in custody 23 days later.