Arrested Workers’ Rights Advocate Feng Rui (Xiao Wu) Released on Bail Pending Trial
(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) On October 22, 2026, this outlet learned that workers’ rights advocate Feng Rui (Xiao Wu), who had been arrested, has been released on bail pending trial. According to his lawyer today, Feng Rui was returned to his hometown on the evening of October 21, 2026. Feng Rui has long focused on labor rights in China and was taken away by Guangzhou police on September 14. Release on bail pending trial does not mean the case is over. The authorities should stop pursuing criminal charges for peaceful labor rights advocacy and safeguard Feng Rui’s legal rights.
Biography of Feng Rui: Born in 1995, he is from Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He operates and edits the independent media outlet “Chiapas East Wind Television,” writes under the pen name “Xiao Wu,” and advocates for workers’ rights.
He graduated from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University in 2017; driven by his interests and volunteer spirit, he worked at Beijing Migrant Workers’ Home (the Migrant Workers’ Culture and Arts Museum in Pi Village, Beijing—which opened on Labor Day in 2008 and was demolished in late June 2026) and 706 Youth Space (founded by 12 young people in Beijing’s Wudaokou in 2012, it is a public cultural space supported and run by young people to explore more possibilities in life, and is China’s first youth space); he later began working independently in self media and became the independent editor of the WeChat public account “Chiapas East Wind Television.” Since then, he has long focused on workers’ rights and, under the pen name “Xiao Wu,” has published annual reviews of labor rights events for many years in a row. Based on these concerns, he commented on labor conditions and social issues and posted views online for a long time that did not align with the official position, which drew the authorities’ attention and displeasure.
On September 14, 2026, he was taken away by police in Guangzhou’s Yuexiu District on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”; it became known on September 30 that he had been placed under criminal detention. It is reported that after his arrest, his public account stopped updating and related content was removed. His arrest may be related to his publication of Things Are This Hard—How Can We Rest? | 2025 Review of Labor Rights Events. It is now known that a lawyer has met with him, but the specific details are unknown. On October 22, 2026, it was learned that he had been released on bail pending trial on October 21. He had previously been held at the Yuexiu District Detention Center in Guangzhou (Chang’an Section of Guangshan Highway, Luogang District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province; postal code: 510040).
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