Liang Qin, Sentenced to 10 Years in the Yunnan “Yun County Case,” Completes Her Sentence
(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) On October 22, 2026, this outlet learned that Liang Qin, sentenced to 10 years in the Yunnan “Yun County Case,” has completed her sentence.
Case overview: Starting in 2015, Ju Dianhong, Liang Qin, and others engaged in missionary activities in Yunnan. On October 21, 2016, Yunnan police arrested dozens of believers. On December 28, 2017, six of them were sentenced. Ju Dianhong and Liang Qin were identified as principal offenders and sentenced to 13 years and 10 years, respectively. Liang Qin completed her sentence on October 20, 2026; Ju Dianhong’s sentence runs until October 20, 2029.
Liang Qin’s profile: Female, born July 24, 1987, from Peng’an County, Sichuan Province; Christian; a key member of a Christian house church in Yun County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province; a victim of the Yun County Case; a Chinese prisoner of conscience who was previously detained.
Since 2015, as an assistant to Ju Dianhong, a preacher at a house church, she has engaged in Christian preaching and recruited believers in many parts of Yunnan Province with Ju Dianhong and others. Their influence gradually grew, prompting the Chinese Communist Party authorities in Yunnan to become alarmed and fearful. They soon formed the “2016 ‘YN3[unrecognized character]15 Three Classes of Servants’ heretical organization project” to crack down harshly on its principal members and persecute them; on October 21, 2016, she and dozens of others were arrested and detained by Yun County police in Lincang City in the “Yun County Case mass arrests.” Their residences were all searched, and large quantities of preaching materials, leaflets, and personal items including mobile phones and computers were seized. A large amount of electronic file information was also extracted from electronic devices as evidence of crimes; on November 25 of the same year, she, Ju Dianhong, and four others were formally arrested on suspicion of “using a heretical organization to undermine the implementation of the law” and held at the Linxiang District Detention Center in Yun County, Lincang City. They were accused of “holding secret gatherings in many prefectures and cities in Yunnan Province, preaching scripture and developing believers, continuing to promote and proclaim the doomsday theory, training organizational leaders, creating conditions and providing convenience for secret preaching and gatherings, and rebuilding the organizational system of the ‘Three Classes of Servants’ group,” which were deemed illegal acts, and she was treated as a major offender in the Yun County Case; on December 28, 2017, the Yun County Court in Yunnan Province sentenced her at first instance to 10 years in prison for “organizing and using a heretical organization to undermine the implementation of the law,” and fined her RMB 100,000; she was dissatisfied and appealed; the second-instance ruling later upheld the original judgment; throughout her detention and trial, she consistently maintained that her faith was not a crime and stated that her faith was absolutely not a heretical religion; she was released upon completing her sentence on October 20, 2026. She had previously served her sentence at Yunnan Province First Women’s Prison.
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- 维权信息中心报告
- Original report
- https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/10/10_01532268767.html
- Original publication
- Oct 22, 2026
- Retrieved
- Oct 22, 2026
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