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Chu Xinyu — Media Profile & Archive

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Person profile: Chu Xinyu

Media Profile & Archive — Chu Xinyu. This archive preserves the source basis and evidentiary limits behind the Person Profile. It supports Chu Xinyu. (Chinese characters for her name are not confirmed in available sources and are not given here.)

Person profile

Chu Xinyu — church member and volunteer worker, Home Discipleship Network (门训家园网), Dalian; detained October 20, 2021 with five co-defendants; sentenced January 12, 2024 by the Ganjingzi District People’s Court to ten years for cult-related and illegal-business-operation charges. Facility and present location not publicly documented.

Source chronology

  • 2018 — move to Dalian. Kan Xiaoyong and Wang Fengying moved from Wuhan to Dalian and set up the Home Discipleship Network (门训家园网), an online preaching platform that became well known in house-church circles (RFA; CHRD).
  • 2021-10-20 — detention. Dalian police raided the couple’s home and detained Kan, Wang, and four church members: Chu Xinyu, Zhao Qianjiao, Zhang Song’ai, and Liang Dongzhi (RFA, January 16, 2024; ChinaAid, March 6, 2024).
  • 2024-01-12 — sentencing. The Ganjingzi District People’s Court found all six guilty of cult-related crimes and illegal business operations; the fraud charge was not established. Sentences: Kan 14 years, Wang 4 years, Chu Xinyu 10 years, Zhao/Zhang/Liang 3 years each. All defense lawyers were appointed by the authorities. Kan and Wang raised torture allegations in court; the court took no action, per RFA’s anonymous case source.
  • 2025-10 — CHRD report. Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ “Chinese authorities expand crackdown on Christian house churches” (October 2025) reports: “In January 2024, a court in Dalian sentenced pastor Kan Xiaoyong to 14 years and fellow church member Chu Xinyu to 10 years on charges of ‘illegal business activity’ and ‘organizing or using a cult to undermine the implementation of the laws.’” CHRD’s full report “In a Prison Waiting for Daybreak” covers the case in the same terms.
  • 2026-08-31 — Issue 131 roster. Rights Defense Network / 维权网 monthly report lists “Chu Xinyu” among reported current-custody political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. No individual case detail given.

Source list

  • Radio Free Asia, Gao Feng, “Online pastor in China’s Dalian gets 14 years for ‘superstition,’” January 16, 2024 — https://www.radiofree.org/2024/01/16/online-pastor-in-chinas-dalian-gets-14-years-for-superstition/ (RFA English article mirror; Ganjingzi court, Jan. 12 verdict, 10-year sentence, torture allegations raised in court; read in search index — flagged for publisher click-verification)
  • Chinese Human Rights Defenders, “Chinese authorities expand crackdown on Christian house churches,” October 2025 — https://www.nchrd.org/2025/10/chinese-authorities-expand-crackdown-on-christian-house-churches/ (14/10-year sentences, charges; read in search index — flagged for publisher click-verification)
  • CHRD, “In a Prison Waiting for Daybreak” full report — https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CHRD_In-A-Prison-Waiting-for-Daybreak_full-report-1.pdf (Home Discipleship Network 门训家园网, six defendants, torture allegations; read in search index — flagged for publisher click-verification)
  • ChinaAid, “Under the banner of patriotism: Sinicization morphs into the worship of the Party and its leaders,” March 6, 2024 — https://chinaaid.org/news/under-the-banner-of-patriotism/ (six defendants, fraud charge not established, sentences incl. Chu Xinyu 10 years; opened and read directly)
  • CECC, Status of Women findings (2024), footnote 63 — http://cecc.gov/sites/evo-subsites/cecc.house.gov/files/2024-12/2024-CH8-Status-of-Women.pdf (cites CECC Political Prisoner Database record 2024-00094 for Chu Xinyu; read in search index — flagged for publisher click-verification)
  • Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Issue 131 monthly report (2026-08-31) — cited per Issue 131 roster lineage; direct report-page re-read flagged for publisher click-verification
  • FreeChina Issue 131 source roster page — https://freechina.live/political-prisoners/mainland-china-current-former/issue-131-source-roster-1638/ (opened via REST; confirms roster lineage)
  • Related FreeChina page (not a duplicate): Kan Xiaoyong — https://freechina.live/uncategorized/kan-xiaoyong/ (post 12787, opened via REST; co-defendant profile mentioning Chu Xinyu in body text — candidate for internal cross-linking)

What is not known

Chinese characters for Chu Xinyu’s name, her age and hometown, the detention facility where she is held, appeal status, and any sentence reductions are not publicly documented. The Person profile asserts none of these.

Related case

The case’s central figure, pastor Kan Xiaoyong, already has a FreeChina page. The six defendants’ cases should be cross-linked, but Chu Xinyu’s identity is distinct — her page must not be folded into his.