Pastor Li Juncai |China Please read our writing guidelines before writing to prisoners Pastor Li Juncai of the Yuanyang County Central House Church in Xinxiang, Henan Province is currently serving a prison sentence of five and a half years after protesting the...
Liang Qin | China In 2017, Liang Qin was sentenced to 10 years in prison on false charges of ‘cult activity’. Liang Qin was accused of being linked to the Three Grades of Servants, an organization Chinese officials view as a dangerous cult. During a 2016...
Ju Dianhong | China In 2017, Ju Dianhong was sentenced to 13 years in prison on false charges of ‘cult activity’. Ju Dianhong was accused of being linked to the Three Grades of Servants, an organisation Chinese officials view as a dangerous cult. During a...
Pastor John Cao | China On March 5, 2017, police arrested Cao San-Qiang (John Cao), a Chinese pastor known for his work among Myanmar’s poor. Authorities charged Pastor Cao with “organizing illegal crossings of national borders” and, one year later, sentenced him to...
Gao Zhisheng | China Gao Zhisheng is a Christian human rights lawyer who has spoken up in the defence of other Christians and minority groups in China. Because of his work, he has had his legal practice shut down, and has faced arrest, torture, and long stretches of...
Cheng Hongpeng | China Chinese Christian Cheng Hongpeng was sentenced to three years in prison after Chinese officials raided a choir practice on 25 June 2014. As the believers practiced hymns at a factory owned by a church member, about 50 uniformed and plainclothes...
Zhao Weiliang | China Chinese Christian Zhao Weiliang was sentenced to four years in prison after Chinese officials raided a choir practice on 25 June. As the believers practiced hymns at a factory owned by a church member, about 50 uniformed and plainclothes...
Pastor Zhang Shaojie | China Pastor Zhang Shaojie of Nanle County Christian Church in Henan Province, is currently serving a 12-year prison term for “gathering a crowd to disrupt the public order” and a fabricated fraud charge. Pastor Zhang was initially detained on...
Alimujiang Yimiti | China Please read our writing guidelines before writing to prisoners In January 2008, Alimujiang “Alim” Yimiti, a Muslim convert to Christianity, was arrested and accused of “subversion of the national government and endangering national security,”...
Pastor Gong Shengliang | China Founder and Pastor of the “Huanan Church” (South China Church, SCC), Gong Shengliang was arrested along with sixteen other South China Church leaders in April of 2001. In December 2001 his original death sentence was reduced to life in...
Yang Hua | China Yang Hua’s wife, Wang Hongwu, came to pick him up on 20 December 2015, from the detention center in China where he had been held since 9 December for his involvement with Living Stone Church, also known as Huoshi Church. But instead of signing...
