Lawyer representing Wu Qiuyu, victim in the Zion Church 10/9 case who was arrested, submits a complaint to the Yinhai Branch of the Beihai Municipal Public Security Bureau and Beihai No. 1 Detention Center and requests the disclosure of information from the detention center

On June 29, 2026, this outlet learned that on June 28, 2026, attorney Lu Siwei, acting as the complaint attorney entrusted by Ms. Wu Qiuyu, a victim in the Zion Church 10/9 case, submitted a complaint to the Yinhai Branch of the Beihai Municipal Public Security Bureau and Beihai No. 1 Detention Center, seeking to hold them legally responsible for abuse of power, dereliction of duty and other violations, and requested the disclosure of information from the detention center. The relevant authorities should respond directly!

Wu Qiuyu’s biography: Female, from Beijing, Christian, preacher at Beijing Zion Church, victim in the Zion Church 10/9 case, and a conscience prisoner currently detained in China.

She initially attended Beijing No. 4 High School and was later admitted to a relevant program at Peking University because of her outstanding academic performance. After graduating from university, although she briefly worked, she later became a Christian and, feeling called, studied at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in the United States, where she obtained a Master of Divinity degree. Subsequently, she actively served at Beijing Zion Church, married Yang Jun, who was also a church pastor, and jointly participated in the online and offline evangelistic activities of different branches of Zion Church. In 2025, as a new wave of religious persecution by the Chinese Communist Party arose throughout the country, the church to which she belonged—which had been forcibly banned by the Beijing authorities on September 9, 2018—again expanded its evangelistic activities. Because of the pastors’ and believers’ yearning for their faith and their low-profile persistence, and because the spread of the COVID-19 virus forced people to remain at home and prevented them from going out freely, Zion Church began using the internet to conduct evangelistic activities. As a result, its pastors and fellow workers worked diligently, causing the church’s influence and size to continuously expand, but it consequently attracted the clear displeasure, heightened attention and suppression of the Chinese Communist Party authorities.

Beginning on October 9, 2025, numerous pastors, fellow workers and key believers from branches of Zion Church in various locations were subjected to raids by the Chinese Communist Party authorities, and nearly 30 people were taken away by police or went missing. She too was taken from her home on October 10 by police from Beijing and Beihai acting jointly; her home was searched, and her mobile phone, computer and personal bank cards were seized. Her husband, Pastor Yang Jun, was also originally to be arrested, but because he was not at home at the time and was in South Korea participating in overseas evangelism, he was not arrested, leaving their two children to be cared for by their maternal grandparents. On November 18 of the same year, 18 Zion Church pastors and fellow workers, including her, were formally arrested by police in Yinhai District, Beihai, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on suspicion of “illegally using an information network.” On June 18, 2026, after three rounds of criminal investigation by the Yinhai District police in Beihai, her case had reached the maximum seven-month period of investigative detention for major cases. It was learned on the same day that nine pastors and fellow workers in the case had ultimately been released on bail pending trial, while she and nine other church leaders—Jin Mingri, Wang Lin, Gao Yingjia, Yin Huibin, Liu Zhenbin, Lin Shucheng, Wang Cong (female), and Wang Zhong—remained in continued detention. The charges against them were changed to “illegal business operations” and “fraud,” and the case was transferred to the Yinhai District People’s Procuratorate in Beihai for review and prosecution.

She is currently detained at Beihai No. 1 Detention Center (on the right side near the Yinhai District Public Security Bureau in Beihai, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; postal code: 536000).