Identification method
The roster’s English edition lists “Yang Chuanhou” with no Chinese characters. The Chinese edition of the same report was read directly: its 判刑5年6个月，34人 (sentenced to 5 years and 6 months, 34 people) list reads “…温粉华、魏三梅、杨传厚、吴炎哆、伊向阳…”, while the English edition lists “…Wen Fenhua, Wei Sanmei, Yang Chuanhou, Wu Yanduo, Yi Xiangyang…” — 34 names aligning position-for-position, with 杨传厚 in the twenty-fourth position in both, verified by direct count on October 9, 2026. The report’s own name index （八、本期中国大陆1638名在押政治犯、良心犯名单索引） independently places 杨传厚 in the Y block — 杨碧琼、杨传厚、杨福军、杨海霞 — matching the English index’s “Yang Biqiong, Yang Chuanhou, Yang Fujun, Yang Haixia” adjacency. This positional identification, from the report’s own two editions, is the sole basis for the Chinese characters — no independent biographical source confirms them. The adjacent-index name 杨碧琼 (“Yang Biqiong”) is a different roster entry in a different custody class, not this person.
Source chronology
- August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network / 维权网， Issue 131 monthly report, “中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告（第131期，共1638人）” (Chinese and English editions). The report’s sentence-statistics table （七、本期中国大陆1638名在押政治犯、良心犯刑期统计表） lists a 34-person group sentenced to 5 years and 6 months; the Chinese edition’s twenty-fourth name is 杨传厚， positionally matching “Yang Chuanhou” in the English edition. The report classifies its entries as political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in custody (dated source claim). No individual case detail is given for this entry. No biography appears in the report’s narrative sections (the report omits biographies for entries with no new information this month).
- October 2026 (research). Bounded searches for 杨传厚 and “Yang Chuanhou” across rights-defense reporting, news archives, and prisoner databases (keywords 判刑， 法轮功， 政治犯， 维权； exact-phrase form) located one name-matching external record — the USCIRF Religious Prisoners of Conscience database entry for “Yang Chuanhou” (see below) — whose facts cannot be verified as belonging to this individual and are therefore not used as a source for this person. Nexis corpus: no hits. Identity registry: no hits. No prior evidence packet exists for this name.
Media records
No news, advocacy, or documentary media records on this person were located beyond the Issue 131 roster listing itself. The single attached source is the roster; there are no further media items to chronicle. This section exists so the archive is honest about that: one source, read directly, with nothing else reliably found.
Conflicts and limitations
- Name-matching external record (not attached). The USCIRF Religious Prisoners of Conscience database lists a “Yang Chuanhou” — male, Falun Gong, detained October 3, 2018, sentenced in May 2019 by the Anda City Court to two years’ imprisonment and a 10,000-yuan fine, held in Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang, appeal rejected by the Suihua City Intermediate Court, released October 2, 2020 after completing his sentence. USCIRF gives no Chinese characters, and the sentence term and timeframe conflict with this roster entry’s 5-years-6-months listing. Without a further anchor it cannot be determined whether this is the same person re-detained and re-sentenced after 2020 or a different person sharing the name — so none of USCIRF’s facts are used in the profile above. If the USCIRF record is a different person, his story belongs to a separate entry; if it is the same person, the 2020 release would bear on present custody — and it cannot be established either way. This archive records the ambiguity rather than resolving it by assumption.
- The roster is a monitoring-organization compilation, not a court record; a listing is not independently verified custody.
- Present custody status is unknown: the roster records a sentence, not a current location or release date.
Archived person: 杨传厚 (Yang Chuanhou) — Person Profile
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