More Details Emerge About the Arrest of Ms. Wang Cong in the Zion Case, Part One

Recently, #the Zion case was brought before the Yinhai District People's Court of Beihai City, and the indictment determined that Wang Cong had not confessed. According to Wang Cong's account, the authorities handling the case not only used multiple illegal evidence-gathering methods, including “threats, inducements and deception,” but also committed multiple procedural violations, including “improper use of restraints,” “seizure of property” and “discrimination against religious beliefs,” prompting continued public concern over the fairness of law enforcement.

1.“They were quite violent when they took me away from home, handcuffing me with my hands behind my back……snatching the child from my arms……When I got on the plane and while I was sitting on the plane, my hands were also cuffed behind my back……I requested to be handcuffed in front, but he said it was impossible.”

2. “A police officer threatened me, saying that if I did not talk, they would bring in my husband.” “Chen Yongwang said that you are not as free here, and also told me that they had recorded people giving no statement before, and that they ultimately received very heavy sentences.” “The female police officer may have wanted me to speak by saying things such as that the children were still young.”

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The indictment says that I did not confess. I had thought about this before. From three perspectives, first, when I was facing the police, they were quite violent when they took me away from home, handcuffing me with my hands behind my back. From that moment I felt resistant, because I had not committed a crime, yet they treated me as though I had committed a very serious crime and snatched the child from my arms. They also snatched away your phone. After they put me in the vehicle, they discussed going up and taking your phone as well, and they also took it away. They drove off, and you chased behind them. They drove so fast that they almost hit the curb. I said, “Don't hurry. May the Lord grant you peace.” At the Houshayu police station, they locked me in a glass room with cameras outside (I said, “Don't be angry when I say this”). Several people guarded me, while the others went to arrest someone else. Among them, the Beijing police asked them outside whether they had the passcode for an Apple phone. From what I heard, they intended to privately keep your phone. I saw that there was a camera, so I spoke toward it. I said, “You have done two things wrong: first, you snatched my child from my arms; second, you took my husband's phone.” I said this through tears. At that time I already knew where I was injured and knew what had moved me. Then they kept my hands cuffed behind my back. When I wanted to rest, I said I needed to use the bathroom. I requested to be handcuffed in front, but they said their leaders would not allow it.

Until I got on the plane, and while I was sitting on the plane, my hands were still cuffed behind my back. The leader of another group that had arrested someone else told our group leader to turn the handcuffs around, and only then were my handcuffs moved to the front. Their reason was that I was not cooperating with them. Before boarding the plane, I saw the Beijing police officer—the one who had come to my home to arrest me—and they were handing me over. I also requested to be handcuffed in front. With hatred in his eyes, he said it was impossible. Perhaps it was because I repeatedly emphasized that they had taken my husband's phone. When they were searching my home to arrest me, I had asked them to come out of the bedroom. Perhaps because of these reasons, they would not handcuff me in front. At the airport I also saw other people who had been arrested. Wu Qiuyu was cuffed behind her back. I did not know the other person, but he seemed to know me. She was cuffed in front and was probably among those released earlier. The staff said, “Look, they cooperated, so they did not suffer.”

After arriving in Beihai, I underwent a medical examination. On the afternoon of October 11, I was interrogated once at the Public Security Bureau by Li Minghao and Chen Yongwang. I did not answer much. I talked about my faith, but they did not want to listen. I asked them what crime I had committed, but they would not say. I considered that I had not committed a crime and had no need to prove my innocence. Since they did not even want to listen to my faith, I stopped talking to them. On the evening of October 11, they tried to take my fingerprints, but they could not get prints from several of my fingers. On the morning of October 12, they took me out to take my fingerprints. They carried a recording pen on the way and still wanted to talk with me, asking me to answer their questions, but I did not speak. At noon on October 12, they sent me to the detention center. On October 13, they interrogated me twice, consecutively in the morning and afternoon. Chen Yongwang said that you are not as free here, and also told me that they had recorded people giving no statement before, and that they ultimately received very heavy sentences. During both interrogations, they threatened me because I did not answer their questions. He did not want to listen to what I said about my faith. Chen Yongwang said that he had his own faith: he believed in the Communist Party. He then went on at length denigrating me and my faith. I just kept enduring it. In those circumstances, I did not want to say anything. I had a conviction that the Lord wanted me to bless those who persecuted me, so I blessed them in the name of the Lord. During the afternoon interrogation, the police officer surnamed Wang who had arrested me also came in. He was interrogating another person and needed to use the computer in our room. He said that the person he was interrogating was a financial worker, with hundreds of pages of transaction records. The police officer surnamed Li beside him then said, “You are like Jesus.” I looked at him. Actually, the officer surnamed Li treated me fairly well, unlike Chen. Earlier, when they recorded my voice, I did not want to read the sheet of paper they gave me. I requested to recite Scripture, and Li agreed. After I finished reciting it, they even said that my faith was quite good. I did not say anything during these two interrogations. They only asked whether the certificate of graduation belonged to me. I answered that it did, but I did not answer who had issued it because I believed it was unrelated to the case. They were questioning me on the basis of the charge of illegally using an information network, so when they asked about Pastor Jin and Zion Church, I considered those matters unrelated to the case and the accusations. I have the right to remain silent.

On October 21, I was interrogated again. This time a female police officer came; there were two of them as well. The female officer may have wanted me to speak by saying things such as that the children were still young. I understood their intention and did not say anything. There were two further interrogations, on January 15 and February 5, 2026. The personnel had changed. Each time, Zhong Ze came with a different person. It may have been during the January 15 interrogation—I forget exactly which one—that a police officer threatened me, saying that if I did not talk, they would bring in my husband. I ignored them. Then we talked about marriage and family. On one occasion, both police officers were younger than me. I advised them to get married and have children early. They sarcastically said that they could not afford to raise them.

More Details Emerge About the Arrest of Wang Cong in the Zion Case, Part Two

Recently, #the Zion case was brought before the Yinhai District People's Court of Beihai City, and the indictment determined that Wang Cong had not confessed. According to Wang Cong's account, the authorities handling the case not only used multiple illegal evidence-gathering methods, including “threats, inducements and deception,” but also committed multiple procedural violations, including “improper use of restraints,” “seizure of property” and “discrimination against religious beliefs,” prompting continued public concern over the fairness of law enforcement.

“During an earlier interrogation, someone said that Ren Zhong earned little money while I earned more, and that it was not in my interest not to confess. The implication was that I did not love my husband and child. They also said that through interrogating other people, they had learned from those people that Ren Zhong had wanted to leave the church before, and that I was the one who insisted on staying, resulting in the current situation. Even earlier, they provided a list and said that Pastor Jin had provided it. They also told me that Ren Zhong and I had sought Pastor Yin's help to resolve difficulties in our marriage. The general implication was that everyone else had spoken, and that there was no point in my remaining silent; it would only harm me. I ignored them all.”

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During the interrogation on February 5, Zhong Zhe brought a police officer who appeared to be surnamed Gao. The officer surnamed Gao addressed me as “older sister” and questioned me in a respectful tone, but when recording the proceedings, he portrayed me as having a bad attitude. On the day of the interrogation, my lawyer was waiting outside and I very much wanted to see him. I felt that his questions were no different from those asked previously, so I did not really want to answer. I made some small movements with my hands, and he recorded all of them. That day he showed me bank transaction records and asked me to sign them. I did not sign, because I considered them unrelated to my case. From the beginning, the interrogations had been conducted on the basis of the charge of illegally using an information network. I believed that the bank records had nothing to do with the case, and that I had not violated any of the provisions of the Criminal Law concerning the crime of illegally using an information network. During the interrogation, Gao called me by the wrong name several times, calling me Sun Cong. This was inconsistent with his outward show of respect toward me.

After that came March 23, when Zhong Zhe interrogated me with another person. I forgot whether it was that time or the previous time that they brought the bank records. Before turning on the recording, they told me that if I did not want to speak, I should say so, and should not waste time by remaining silent. After the recording began, he asked me some basic questions, which I answered. Regarding other questions they had asked before, I did not want to speak and said so. Later I felt that I had been tricked, and that he wanted to use this method to portray me as having a bad attitude. On June 18, Zhong Zhe and another person interrogated me once again. This time they showed me the bank transaction records. I asked what they had to do with the case, but he did not answer. He also asked other questions, and I asked him each time what they had to do with my case. He did not answer. He said, “We think they are related.” He became somewhat angry and said, “I am interrogating you now, not the other way around.” I said, “You are interrogating me, but I also need to know what these things have to do with my case before I answer you.” He then said that my attitude was bad. I replied that my attitude was good, that I respected them, and that I also blessed them. “This is your job. I just need to know whether this is related to my case, and if it is, I will answer.” Even at that point, they had not said that they were accusing me of fraud. He only replied that the notice they had given me already explained everything clearly. The recording was later stopped. He said that a group of people would be released this time, but my name was not on the list. I had been seeking release on bail pending trial. He said that I did not meet the conditions for release on bail pending trial because I spoke and did not sign. Then I said that their continued detention of me showed that they were stubbornly refusing to accept the truth and simply wanted to establish our guilt; we were not guilty. After Zhou left, I asked another police officer, apparently surnamed Li, “Are you planning to release a group of people recently?” He said, “I can't tell you. I say whatever my leaders tell me to say.” After Zhong returned, this Li also said that I was blinded by one thing and could not see the rest, and that the reason I had not been released was because I said nothing and signed nothing—it was my own fault. Zhong said that I was the one who was stubbornly refusing to accept the truth.

After returning, I repeatedly thought about these matters. The next day I received a change-of-custody certificate and learned that I was being accused of fraud. I prayed to God and thought about what I should say when the prosecutor came. Later I had an idea and suddenly became able to talk about some things: speaking about my faith before the prosecutor, bearing witness for the Lord, and describing the changes that came from believing in the Lord. In addition, I wanted to say that we are members of China's house-church community and had broken no laws; there were only certain regulations issued by the State Council after 2018, but those regulations conflict with and contravene the Constitution because the Constitution stipulates that citizens have freedom of religious belief. I hoped that the procuratorate would not indict us. I also wanted to say that my children were young and hoped that I could be released on bail pending trial, or that they would accuse me under the charge they had stated, in the hope that my sentence would be reduced. On June 24, the prosecutor came. She was a woman surnamed Li, and her assistant was surnamed Gao. Their attitude was quite good at the time. They began by asking how old my children were and talked about such matters. I cried because I missed the children. In fact, they were using these things to establish a certain connection. I answered all their basic questions.

More Details Emerge About the Arrest of Wang Cong in the Zion Case, Part Three

Recently, #the Zion case was brought before the Yinhai District People's Court of Beihai City, and the indictment determined that Wang Cong had not confessed. According to Wang Cong's account, the authorities handling the case not only used multiple illegal evidence-gathering methods, including “threats, inducements and deception,” but also committed multiple procedural violations, including “improper use of restraints,” “seizure of property” and “discrimination against religious beliefs,” prompting continued public concern over the fairness of law enforcement.

Second, the inspiration I received from God. After I was arrested and brought in, I had many dreams that caused me a great deal of fear. In one of them, a big dog ate my head. This dream may also have occurred before I was arrested. My spirit was praying nearby, and the big dog released my head. They told me to run quickly, but then it seemed that a small dog came from Pastor Yin and Zhijie and bit my leg, so I could not run. But the injury was not that serious; it would heal after a few injections. From this dream I felt that I needed to pray urgently, so that the enemy could not harm my head and could only harm my heel. When I prayed, I also remembered that when the Lord Jesus was arrested, he said nothing because everything he had done had been done in public and everyone knew about it. Therefore, my attitude was that these people were in fact persecuting our house church. When I spoke with them, I also explained that the government's attitude toward house churches had changed after 2018. I also implored them not to continue persecuting house churches. Moreover, there was nothing for me to say: they knew about the things I had done publicly, and I did not need to prove my innocence; they needed to prove my guilt. Later, my lawyer also told me when communicating with me that it was actually possible to bear witness to them. But I had previously tried to bear witness, and they did not want to hear my testimony. They only wanted to say that I was guilty, so I felt there was no need to say anything more to them. Therefore, each time I asked God to stand beside me and help me remain calm and not speak, but only pray for and bless them.

Third, my personal feelings. I feel that among these people, I am the least wise. The Bible says that when a fool keeps silent, he is considered wise. I did not engage much with them, so I chose to keep silent. In addition, I knew their approach: using the statements of some people to accuse others. I did not want to become someone who gave testimony to accuse my brothers. I would rather suffer together with them than say things in order to be released while causing them to suffer. So I also chose not to speak. I was afraid that after I spoke, my words would become an accusation against them, because I lacked the wisdom to distinguish what I should say from what I should not say. Therefore, I said nothing at all. Later, when I went to the procuratorate and the prosecutor came, I was actually somewhat weak, because they had also said that I was blinded by one thing and could not see the rest, and that Sun Cong had left while I had not. This was not because I was afraid of suffering, but because I felt that I owed something to my husband and child, so I wanted to make an effort. But I still felt that the record differed from what I had said myself, so I did not sign it. I did not expect this to become the reason they used to determine my guilt.