Tu Jincan (涂金灿), born in 1962 in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, is a Beijing folk publisher. Rights Defense Network / 维权网 Issue 131 dated August 31, 2026 lists him among reported in-custody cases.
According to the Tenzhu political-prisoner database, Tu founded a genealogy-and-biography publishing business in Beijing in 2008. The same record reports an earlier detention connected to a 1989 essay and later participation as a Charter 08 signatory.
The database reports that Tu was criminally detained on November 21, 2023 on suspicion of illegal business, formally arrested in December 2023, and later prosecuted through the Haidian authorities. It reports that the Haidian court sentenced him on March 24, 2026 to three years and six months in prison. Co-defendant Wu Dongfa (伍冬发) reportedly received two years and six months.
Status and evidence limits
Issue 131 dated August 31, 2026 lists Tu Jincan in its four-year sentence group, while the detailed database record gives three years and six months. Both figures are preserved as reported. No independently obtained court judgment or official release record was located.
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