Person profile: Qi Zhiyin (齐志银)
Media Profile & Archive — Qi Zhiyin (齐志银)
This archive collects published reporting on Qi Zhiyin, a Tianjin resident reported by Falun Gong-affiliated and religious-freedom monitoring sources to have been sentenced to nine years in prison in 2024.
Case timeline
- December 28, 2017: Minghui reports Qi was detained during a Tianjin-wide police operation and held at the Wuqing District Detention Center.
- February 4, 2024: Minghui reports Qi was detained at his daughter’s home in Beijing and taken to the Wuqing District Detention Center.
- July 2024: Minghui reported that a local court sentenced Qi to nine years’ imprisonment; its English summary stated that details of the indictment, trial and sentencing were unclear.
- August 2025: the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong published a notice alleging mistreatment at Tianjin Binhai Prison. That allegation has not been independently verified by FreeChina.live.
Source archive
- Minghui, Aug. 24, 2024 — nine-year sentence report
- Minghui, Sept. 8, 2024 — sentencing statistics and case summary
- Human Rights Without Frontiers, China 2024 newsletter
- WOIPFG case notice, Aug. 2, 2025
Evidence note
The principal case details come from Falun Gong-affiliated or religious-freedom monitoring sources, and no official court judgment was located in the source packet. The specific criminal charge, any appeal, and any sentence-end calculation are therefore not asserted here.