Shen Yongping

Shen Yongping (; born November 23, 1980) is a Chinese filmmaker who was arrested and imprisoned after making a documentary about the Chinese Constitution. Shen's documentary, entitled "A Hundred Years of Constitutionalism", was posted online and downloaded for free, and hundreds of DVDs were provided for free to people who contribute money to the film's production.

Shen was detained in April 2014 and jailed in Chaoyang District, Beijing, and was formally arrested on June 4. In his indictment, prosecutors argued Shen had a "weak understanding of the rule of law" when he released the film, and that he "disrupted the market order in a particularly serious manner". Shen's supporters suggest his arrest was a thinly veiled punishment for his film's criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s failure to uphold the country's constitution.

Shen's arrest and conviction is one of a series of examples of general secretary of the CCP Xi Jinping taking a hard line against protestors, dissenters and artists critical of the CCP.