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Uyghur retired doctor Ms. Gulshan Abbas, sentenced to 20 years, spends her 64th birthday in prison
Uyghur retired doctor Gulshan Abbas, born June 12, 1962, was arrested in September 2018 after publicly criticizing Chinese authorities’ treatment of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang. She was sentenced in March 2019 to 20 years’ imprisonment, running until September 2038, on terrorism-related and social-order charges. Her detention location and health remain unknown. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention determined in Opinion No. 88/2022 that her detention was arbitrary.Feng Zhenghu: Outside the Invisible Wall, We Go Home
On March 17, the narrator was stopped at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport while preparing to travel to Japan with his wife and was told, citing instructions from a relevant State Council department, that he could not leave the country. His wife later traveled alone, sharing updates from Tokyo. On June 11, the narrator met her at Shanghai Pudong International Airport after her return, and they went home together.Famous human rights defender Ding Jiaxi, sentenced to 12 years, has been kept indoors at Jiangbei Prison, barred from outdoor time; book purchases restricted and mailed books returned
On June 12, 2026, the Rights Defense Network Information Center reported, citing Ding Jiaxi’s wife, Luo Shengchun, that Ding is confined indoors at Hubei Jiangbei Prison, denied outdoor time and family calls, and faces restrictions on books and correspondence. Ding, a human rights lawyer and New Citizens Movement organizer, was sentenced in April 2023 to 12 years for “subversion of state power,” with his sentence running until March 21, 2032.Human rights lawyer Zhang Wenpeng, sentenced to 4 years and 6 months, transferred to Unit 1 of Hainan Xincheng Prison to serve his sentence
Human rights lawyer Zhang Wenpeng was transferred to Unit 1 of Hainan Xincheng Prison on May 29, 2026, to serve a four-year-six-month sentence. His appeal was rejected on May 26, upholding the original judgment. Zhang was detained on September 24, 2024, on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble after speaking online and assisting parties in the Shipping Group case. His sentence began March 16, 2026, and is scheduled to end March 22, 2028.Indictment in the Case of Pastor Zhang Sen, Pastor Chang Shun, and Elder Ma Tao of Anhui Fuyang Wheat Seed Reformed Church
On June 12, 2026, the outlet reported learning of an indictment against Pastor Zhang Sen, Pastor Chang Shun, and Elder Ma Tao of Anhui Fuyang Wheat Seed Reformed Church. The indictment cites Christians holding gatherings at home, officiating weddings, welcoming Christians who had been administratively detained, and children from Christian families studying together. The full indictment was made public.Case Details and Profile of Ms. Zhao Xihua, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Shuangcheng District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, Sentenced to 3 Years and 2 Months
On June 12, 2026, the Rights Defense Network Information Center reported that Zhao Xihua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shuangcheng District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, was sentenced by the Harbin Daoli District Court to three years and two months. Police arrested her on August 21, 2025, during a crackdown involving more than 20 practitioners. She was tried on April 23, 2026, and her sentence is scheduled to expire on October 20, 2028.Case Details and Biography of Ms. Qiu Hongmei, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Dongying City, Shandong Province, Sentenced to 3 Years and 6 Months
The Rights Defense Network Information Center reported on June 11, 2026, that Qiu Hongmei, a Falun Gong practitioner from Dongying City, Shandong Province, was sentenced to three years and six months in May 2026. Qiu, born in 1973 and formerly employed by Xinda Labor Services Company, was arrested in Guilin, Guangxi, on May 13, 2024, and tried by the Guilin Intermediate People’s Court in late 2024.Case details and biography of Ms. Chen Suyuan, a 78-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Anshan, Liaoning, sentenced to three years in prison
On June 11, 2026, the Rights Defense Network Information Center reported that Chen Suyuan, a 78-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Anshan, Liaoning, was sentenced to three years in prison. She was arrested in 2012 and 2020, receiving a one-and-a-half-year sentence in 2020. Arrested again on January 20, 2026, she was tried on April 22 and sentenced through January 19, 2029.US-Based Human Rights Defender Xiang Li’s Relatives in China Pressured by Authorities to Cut Ties with Her
On June 11, 2026, the Rights Defense Network Information Center reported that US-based human rights defender Xiang Li accused Hubei and Beijing state security authorities of tracking, harassing and intimidating her relatives in China, freezing their bank accounts, and coercing them to sever family ties publicly. Li demanded an apology, an end to pressure and restoration of account access. She has lived in the United States since 2018.Feng Zhenghu: The AI Zhenghu Case Review Team: Illuminating the Path of the Rule of Law with the Light of Technology and Safeguarding Judicial Justice with Digital Rationality
Shanghai Tianlun Consulting Co., Ltd. developed the “AI Zhenghu Case Review Team,” combining AI models including Claude, Gemini, GPT, Grok and DeepSeek with legal expertise represented by Feng Zhenghu. The team reviews court judgments, verifies legal and factual reasoning, assists with administrative-remedy documents, produces multimedia legal-education materials, and publishes case evaluations. It aims to support citizens’ rights defense, improve judicial transparency and promote rule-of-law development in China.Feng Zhenghu: I will sue the People's Bank of China over its unlawful and unfair handling of Alipay, but it has still neither filed the case nor issued a ruling—report on the process of defending my rights
On June 10, 2026, the author said Judge Wei Kai of the Shanghai Jing’an District People’s Court had neither filed nor ruled on a March 30 complaint against the People’s Bank of China concerning Alipay. The author described their exchange with Wei and said they would pursue legal remedies. They also mentioned proceedings involving Ctrip, the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court, and the Ministry of Public Security.“Full Scope Church” Tong-Sui Church Leader in Suizhou, Hubei, Yang Zhijin Sentenced to 3 Years and 2 Months
On May 22, 2026, the Zengdu District Court in Suizhou, Hubei Province, sentenced Yang Zhijin, leader of the Tong-Sui Church of the Full Scope Church, to three years and two months in prison and fined him 8,000 yuan for “using a cult organization to undermine the implementation of the law.” His case involved cross-provincial Christian activities, clerical training and helping believers hire lawyers. He remains detained in Suizhou.Controversy Surrounding Independent Writer Liu Yiming’s New Book, “The Ruler Who Lost His Country: A Lament for the Final Days Beneath the Morning Mist of the Annals”
On June 10, 2026, the outlet reported that Hubei-based independent writer Liu Yiming’s historical work, The Ruler Who Lost His Country: A Lament for the Final Days Beneath the Morning Mist of the Annals, was published globally by New York’s Bodden House, with Andrew Nathan and Tom Guo as academic advisers. Potential partners had raised concerns about its subject matter, and relevant departments requested advance review, which Liu refused.Two Cases Filed by Chongqing Human Rights Defender Xiao Zhenyi Against the Illegal Compulsory Summons Measures of the Shapingba Police Station in Chongqing and for Administrative Compensation to Be Heard at the Shapingba District Court in Chongqing on June 12, 2026
Two cases filed by Chongqing human rights defender Xiao Zhenyi against compulsory summons measures by Shapingba Police Station and seeking administrative compensation will be heard at 3 p.m. on June 12, 2026, in Courtroom 2 of Shapingba District Court. Xiao, Lu Junling and Zhao Liang were summoned on December 10, 2025, after initiating a petition to remove a wall obstructing a road. Xiao was previously sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison in January 2023.Zhang Sen, Pastor of Anhui Fuyang Wheat Seed Reformed Church, Pastor Chang Shun and Elder Ma Tao’s Case Opens Today
On June 9, 2026, the case of Zhang Sen, pastor of Anhui Fuyang Wheat Seed Reformed Church, and Pastor Chang Shun and Elder Ma Tao opened. Authorities raided the church on June 29, 2025, criminally detaining Chang and Ma; Zhang was arrested July 9. In October 2025, all three were transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution on charges of “organizing an illegal gathering.”Taiwan’s Baqi Culture Publishing House editor-in-chief Fucha (real name: Li Yanhe), sentenced to 3 years, was released from prison in May 2026
Fucha, whose real name is Li Yanhe and who edits Taiwan’s Baqi Culture Publishing House, was arrested in Shanghai in March 2023 while visiting relatives and handling household-registration matters. The Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court sentenced him on February 17, 2025, to three years for “inciting separatism,” one year of deprivation of political rights and an RMB 50,000 confiscation. He was released in May 2026 but barred from leaving China.Ms. Yang Shuzhen, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Jingyu County, Baishan City, Jilin Province, Sentenced to Four Years, Tortured in Prison
On June 8, 2026, the Rights Defense Network Information Center reported that Yang Shuzhen, a Falun Gong practitioner from Jingyu County, Jilin Province, was arrested on July 15, 2024, and sentenced to four years by Jingyu County Court. After being transferred to Changchun Women’s Prison, she was allegedly tortured. During forced feeding, a tooth fell into her lung, requiring surgery to remove it and part of her lung tissue.Hubei Human Rights Defender Yin Xu'an Has Been Forcibly Disappeared for More Than 300 Days After Going to Beijing for Medical Treatment
The Rights Defense Network Information Center reported on June 7, 2026, that Yin Xu’an, a human rights defender from Daye City, Hubei Province, had been forcibly disappeared for more than 300 days after authorities intercepted and repatriated him in Beijing on August 11, 2025, while he sought medical treatment. His family and lawyers have been unable to locate him. Yin has serious hypertension and coronary heart disease and previously served an eight-year total prison term.Niu Tengyu’s Mother: Rights-Defense Diary in Guangzhou (3)—The Guangdong High Court Set Up a Series of “Intimidation Cudgels” to Threaten Me.
On May 26, the author said security guards at the Guangdong High Court threatened him, subjected his group to unusually thorough security checks, surrounded them and filmed them with body-worn cameras. He said negotiations revealed that a purported offer of parole for his son, Niu Tengyu, conditional on pleading guilty, was misleading because parole had not been processed for people sentenced to more than 10 years. The article is dated June 7, 2026.“10·9 Zion Church Case”: Pastor Jin Mingri Still Unable to Meet with Lawyer; Lawyer Still Unable to Review Case Files
On June 7, 2026, the Rights Defense Network Information Center reported that Pastor Jin Mingri remains detained at Beihai No. 2 Detention Center and cannot meet with defense lawyer Li Guisheng, who has been unable to review the case files. Jin’s daughter, Jin Tingya, urged prosecutors in Beihai’s Yinhai District and Beihai City to allow access. Jin was criminally detained in October 2025 in the “10·9 Zion Church Case.”Even if my head is chopped off, I will not turn back — Commemorating the 14th anniversary of the “suicide” of renowned pro-democracy activist and labor movement leader Li Wangyang
Rights Defense Network stated that June 6, 2026, marks the 14th anniversary of the “murder disguised as suicide” of Hunan Shaoyang labor activist Li Wangyang. Born in 1950, Li Wangyang founded the Shaoyang Workers’ Autonomous Federation during the 1989 democracy movement. He was imprisoned twice for a total of 22 years and subjected to torture. On June 6, 2012, he died at a hospital in Daxiang District, Shaoyang. The medical authorities said he had committed suicide, an account that sparked attention and doubts.Rights Defense Commentary: A Legal Analysis of the Exit Restriction Incident Involving Feng Zhenghu and Concerns for Citizens’ Rights
The article examines the exit ban imposed on Feng Zhenghu at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport on March 17, 2026. It argues that the restriction lacked written notification, specific evidence and a time limit, and was disproportionate to the stated national-security justification. The article also criticizes administrative reconsideration procedures, particularly reliance on state-secrets claims, and says the case highlights broader concerns about citizens’ rights, oversight and rule-of-law protections in China.Case Details and Biography of Ms. Teng Qinhua, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Laizhou, Shandong, Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
According to the Information Center of the Rights Defense Network, Teng Qinhua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Laizhou, Shandong, was arrested on May 8, 2023, while attending a group study. She was later released on bail for health reasons. Following court hearings in November 2023 and May 2024, she was sentenced to three years in prison. Detained on December 4, 2025, she was transferred to Jinan Prison on April 20, 2026.Shandong Zaozhuang rights activist Zhang Chao (Dharma name Shi Daoguo) was criminally detained after taking photos at Tiananmen on June 4, attaching a poem of mourning, and posting them to his WeChat Moments
On June 7, 2026, the Rights Defense Network Information Center reported that Zhang Chao, also known as Shi Daoguo, was criminally detained after visiting the area outside Tiananmen Square’s fences on June 4, taking photos, posting a mourning poem on WeChat Moments, and having the account blocked. He was taken from Beijing on June 5 and is held at Zaozhuang No. 1 Detention Center.Xu Chao, wife of Pastor Zhang Sen; Li Yunyan, wife of Pastor Chang Shun; and Li Mei, wife of Elder Ma Tao: With the Anhui Fuyang Wheat Seed case trial imminent, we invite ambassadors from all countries stationed in China to attend the trial of Christian pastors in Anhui Fuyang
Wives of Anhui Fuyang Wheat Seed Church leaders Zhang Sen, Chang Shun and Ma Tao invited foreign ambassadors in China to attend their trial, scheduled for June 9–12, 2026, at the Yingzhou District People’s Court in Fuyang, Anhui. Fuyang police arrested the three men on June 29, 2025. They have been held for more than 11 months on charges of “organizing illegal gatherings.”
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