Alina Apostol

Alina Apostol is a 36-year-old Romanian woman currently serving a 13-year and 6-month sentence in Fuzhou Women's Prison, China, for her involvement as a translator in a fraudulent banking scheme. Arrested in 2017, she was convicted in 2019 and her sentence was adapted to Romanian law in 2023. Her family is engaged in a legal battle to transfer her back to Romania, which is contingent upon the payment of financial penalties imposed by Chinese authorities.