Yin Xu’an (尹旭安) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the published source record for Yin Xu’an (尹旭安), a rights defender from Daye City, Hubei Province, who was taken into custody in Beijing on August 11, 2025 while seeking urgent medical treatment and has not been heard from since. International organizations describe his case as an enforced disappearance. For the biographical profile, see the person pages (EN: Yin Xu’an (尹旭安); ZH: 尹旭安; FR: Yin Xu’an; DE: Yin Xu’an; ES: Yin Xu’an; ZH-Hant: 尹旭安). Sources are listed in chronological order with verification notes. Where a source uses language that reflects its own assessment (such as “enforced disappearance”), it is attributed to that source.
Before the disappearance: two decades of petitioning and imprisonment
December 2015 (record maintained and updated through 2026) — China Political Prisoner Concern (CPPC), file 00305: 尹旭安. The CPPC file — maintained by a mainland/overseas volunteer human-rights network — traces Yin from a 2003 divorce-registration dispute that pushed him to petition in Beijing from 2007, through six administrative detentions, eight “black jail” confinements, a two-year re-education-through-labor term (2009, extended three months) after he applied to demonstrate during the US president’s Beijing visit, and his turn from 2012 toward public-interest advocacy (calls for political reform, abolition of re-education through labor, and support actions for other activists’ cases). It records the March 2015 WeChat detention, the July 2015 Yellow Crane Tower solidarity-shirt detention, the May 2017 sentence of three and a half years, the December 2018 early release, the May 2019 re-detention, the July 2021 sentence of four and a half years served in Huangzhou Prison’s No. 12 ward, his November 2023 release, and — added later — the August 2025 disappearance in Beijing and the family’s fruitless October 2025 lawyer search in Bao’an Town. Photographs of official documents (detention notices, court verdicts, release certificates) are embedded on the page. Verification: VERIFIED (page fetched; dates and case sequence cross-match the CHRD database record and Amnesty’s account).
June 24, 2022 — Minsheng Guancha (民生观察): “湖北尹旭安狱中情况有好转”. Reports that Yin, moved to Huangzhou Prison at the end of May 2022, was permitted a family phone call from the prison hospital; his speech had improved since a February 2022 stroke but remained unclear, he could not walk normally, and his blood pressure was still as high as 240. The report notes a November 2021 hospitalization in a Daye Chinese-medicine hospital with blood pressure at 300/220, and a February 2022 stroke that left him unable to eat or drink unassisted while held in the Daye detention center. Verification: VERIFIED (page fetched; independent Chinese-language outlet; corroborates the prison-era health crisis recorded in the CHRD database).
The disappearance
July 30, 2026 — Amnesty International, Urgent Action 80/26 (Index ASA 17/1339/2026). Amnesty reports that Yin, suffering from severe hypertension, coronary heart disease and renal artery stenosis and referred by a Hubei hospital to Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, was intercepted at Beijing West Railway Station on July 28, 2025 and forcibly returned to Bao’an Town, Daye, by Daye public-security personnel; travelled to Beijing again on August 10, 2025; and was taken away on August 11, 2025 by officials reported to be led by Xu Yuefei, secretary of the Bao’an Town Political and Legal Affairs Commission. Amnesty notes repeated prior obstruction of his medical travel by the Daye domestic-security unit and local officials, and calls for disclosure of his whereabouts, access to family, lawyers and medical care, and release if he is detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his rights. The action is open until December 31, 2026. Verification: VERIFIED (full PDF fetched from amnesty.org and read). Strongest international source for the disappearance.
August 12, 2026 — Chinese Human Rights Defenders: “China: Case of Activist Forcibly Disappeared Passes Grim Milestone”. Marking one year since the disappearance, CHRD reports that Yin was forcibly pulled from a stretcher outside a Beijing apartment as medical personnel carried him to an ambulance, on the direction of Xu Yuefei; that his family and two retained lawyers were stonewalled by the Bao’an political-legal committee, the discipline-inspection commission, the Bao’an police station and two Hubei procuratorates; and that no evidence, warrant or formal notice of any investigation or prosecution has been publicized. CHRD researcher Shane Yi is quoted saying authorities will not confirm even whether Yin is alive. Verification: VERIFIED (full article fetched from nchrd.org and read). Provides the most detailed public account of the August 11, 2025 seizure and the family’s subsequent search.
August 31, 2026 — Weiquanwang monthly prisoner roster, Issue 131 (chinahrc.org/content/43092/). In its in-prison updates section, the report notes Yin spent his 52nd birthday (August 27) in enforced disappearance — 382 days since August 11, 2025 — and summarizes his history: petitioning since 2007, two prison terms totaling eight years, extremely poor health (recorded blood pressure up to 300/220), and interception while travelling to Beijing for treatment. The report also lists him in the pinyin Y-index and among sixteen Hubei prisoners. Verification: VERIFIED (page fetched live; ZH/EN positional correspondence used to establish the roster identity).
Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience Database: 尹旭安 / “Yin Xu’an” (tenchu.org). Database record: born 1974-08-27; male; former name 尹巍; last taken away 2025-08-11; location unknown. The case summary covers the petitioning history, both prison terms, the prison health crises, the November 2023 release, the early-2024 disappearance and April 2025 release, and the August 2025 Beijing seizure, and cites the Amnesty urgent action, Minsheng Guancha, and the CPPC file as other sources. Verification: VERIFIED (record retrieved via the database’s public search, October 2026; exactly one record returned).
Evidence gaps and limitations
- No PRC official source — no warrant, detention notice, court document, or government statement about the current case — has been located; both Amnesty and CHRD note the absence.
- Amnesty describes Xu Yuefei as secretary of the Bao’an Town Political and Legal Affairs Commission; CHRD describes him as the party secretary of Yin’s home village. The role description differs slightly between the two accounts; both identify the same person leading the August 11, 2025 seizure.
- The Radio Free Asia Mandarin report of August 5, 2022 (cited in the CHRD database record) could not be opened — the domain is unreachable from this research environment — and is recorded here as a cited source, not an independently verified one.
- Yin’s current condition and location are unknown; this archive does not infer them.