Person profile: Yu Shaolin / 虞少林
This archive preserves the source record behind the Yu Shaolin (虞少林) profile: a preacher of the Century New City Church in Kunming, Yunnan, detained with two co-workers in April 2026 and reported as detained without trial in August 2026, with provenance and limitations noted. Sources are graded; allegations remain attributed rather than stated as fact.
Note on the name: the surname is 虞 (Yú), not 余 — confirmed by the Chinese edition of the source roster.
Case chronology
- April 12, 2026 — The Century New City Church’s Sunday gathering in Kunming is raided by the authorities; preacher Yu Shaolin and co-workers Li Qun and Luo Ping are taken away by police (CHRD case record).
- May 20, 2026 — All three are formally arrested; the stated charge is organizing illegal assemblies (CHRD case record).
- After May 2026 — Church members are repeatedly summoned and questioned by police; the church issues a public letter calling for prayer and seeks legal assistance; observers note the charge is one authorities commonly use against unregistered house churches (CHRD case record).
- August 31, 2026 — Listed in the Rights Defense Network’s monthly in-custody report, Yunnan regional group, among people reported as detained without trial.
Media and documentary record
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience database, individual record for “Yu Shaolin” (record entered 2026-06-11): 虞少林, male, born 1974, last taken 2026-04-12, charge 组织、资助非法聚集罪 (“Organizing or Funding Illegal Assemblies”), no sentence; held at the Kunming Guandu District Detention Center; preacher of the Century New City Church, Kunming; background (former drug addiction, conversion, ministry to drug users); April 12, 2026 Sunday-gathering raid with co-workers 李群 and 罗平; formal arrest May 20, 2026; health details; wife’s illness; church public letter; Open Doors partner comment. Database search page (established human-rights monitoring organization; single-source individual record).
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) — Issue 131 monthly in-custody report (August 31, 2026): Yu Shaolin (虞少林) recorded in the Yunnan regional group of the “Detained without trial” section and the §VIII A–Z index. The Chinese edition is the positional source of the characters 虞少林.
Evidence notes and limitations
The April 2026 detention facts come from a single monitoring-organization case record (CHRD’s Prisoners of Conscience database) and have not been independently verified. The church’s public letter and the Open Doors partner comment referenced inside that record were not individually located, so they are recorded as cited references rather than independent evidence. No court judgment, police notice, or state-media coverage of the case was located. The record’s reference to “余传道” is an apparent in-source typo for 虞少林, not a separate person. The Rights Defense Network’s monthly report is an independent roster listing of people it counts as in custody as of August 31, 2026. Nothing in the record establishes a trial date, conviction, sentence, or current facility beyond the Guandu District Detention Center report — those must not be inferred. The Zhu Zhengwu / Pu Jinshun Lingshan Church case is a separate matter within the same roster group and must not be conflated with this one.
Person profile: Yu Shaolin / 虞少林