Xu Zengchen (徐增臣) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record behind the Xu Zengchen (徐增臣) profile: a Liaoyang County practitioner reported to be serving a four-year sentence and recorded as in custody in August 2026. Sources are graded; allegations remain attributed rather than stated as fact.
Minghui — “76-Year-Old Liaoning Man Gets Second 4-Year Prison Sentence for His Faith in Falun Gong” (January 19, 2026)
(Opened and read in full: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2026/1/19/232362.html). The detailed case record: Xu Zengchen, 76, of Liaoyang County, Liaoning; the August 30, 2024 home arrest by Bahui police station officers after distributing materials; detention at the Liaoyang County Detention Center; the Dengta City Court four-year sentence (date unstated); admission to Panjin Prison followed by transfer to an unnamed Liaoyang City prison without family notification; health condition (blind right eye, impaired gait); prior 2001 labor-camp term with reported abuse, the May 5, 2005 arrest, and the December 8, 2013 arrest leading to the 2014 four-year sentence at Shenyang Prison. Source grade: Falun Gong practitioner-run media; the sole detailed case record; all claims attributed.
Minghui — “Additional Persecution News from China – September 26, 2024 (12 Reports)” (October 11, 2024)
(Opened and read in full: https://projectshield.en.minghui.org/html/articles/2024/10/11/221187.html). Contemporaneous record of the August 30, 2024 arrest: Xu Zengchen, 75, of Wangjia Village, Longchang Town, arrested by Bahui police station officers for distributing materials; held in the Liaoyang County Detention Center. Independently confirms the village-level address and the arresting unit; the age is consistent with the January 2026 report (75 in 2024, 76 in 2026). Source grade: practitioner-media news digest; attributed.
维权网 — August 2026 monthly report, Issue 131 (August 31, 2026)
维权网《中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告（2026年8月31日）第131期（共1638人）, mirrored in English and Chinese. Lists 徐增臣 in the 4-year-sentence group (判刑4年） and in the report’s A–Z name index. Source for in-custody classification as of August 2026 and for the Chinese-character resolution (徐， not 许）. Source grade: monitoring organization; single-source roster fact. https://www.chinahrc.org/content/43092/
Source conflicts and limitations
The case record rests on practitioner-run media and the monitoring organization’s in-custody roster. The procedural and abuse details are presented as reported by those outlets, not as independently verified court findings. The exact date of the current sentencing, the formal charge, and the current prison’s name and location have not been publicly documented. No court judgment or official record was found. No Chinese-language case record tying the characters 徐增臣 to this case was found; the character resolution rests on positional analysis of the report’s bilingual editions.
Person profile: Xu Zengchen (徐增臣)