# Claim 598

A court sentenced Dong to seven years in prison in November 2024.

Published 2026-09-23. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

- Statement: A court sentenced Dong to seven years in prison in November 2024.
- Field: action
- Value: seven-year sentence, November 2024
- About: [incident 2024-china-dong-yuyu-espionage-sentence](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2024-china-dong-yuyu-espionage-sentence)
- Source: Son of jailed Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu says espionage conviction 'purely political'. https://cpj.org/2025/09/son-of-jailed-chinese-journalist-dong-yuyu-says-espionage-conviction-purely-political/
- Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists
- Method: outlet report
- Checked: 2026-09-22
- Confidence: medium
- Status: current
- Source date: 2025-09-30

## Quotation from the source

> Seven years imprisonment, handed down in November 2024.

Source page: https://thewaronnews.com/claims/598. The War On News, CC BY 4.0.