Canonical person profile: Yu Wensheng / 余文生
Yu Wensheng / 余文生
Beijing human-rights lawyer. This archive preserves verified source links while keeping torture and ill-treatment allegations source-attributed and unresolved administrative terminology explicit.
Selected sources
- OHCHR, April 15, 2026 — release and call to lift restrictions and surveillance.
- Amnesty International UA 19/18 final outcome, July 6, 2026 — release, political-rights deprivation, and reported travel restrictions affecting Xu Yan and their son.
- CCBE, April 13, 2026 — case chronology and appeal information.
- Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada-led joint statement, March 2026 — 2023–2026 chronology and reported prison conditions.
- CHRD, April 9, 2026 — Chinese-language joint-statement coverage.
- Amnesty International, June 18, 2020 — 2018–2020 prosecution and sentence.
- Human Rights Watch, April 12, 2024 — detention of Yu and Xu Yan.
- Amnesty International, April 9, 2026 — pre-release case update.
Evidence limits: torture and ill-treatment remain allegations attributed to Yu or reporting organizations. The exact administrative term for his 2018 loss of license is unresolved across sources. The exact January–February 2024 Suzhou transfer date and exact duration of supplemental deprivation-of-political-rights measures are not established.