Zhang Wenbin （张文斌） — Media Profile & Archive
For the profile of Zhang Wenbin, see Zhang Wenbin （张文斌）.
This archive preserves the dated public record on Zhang Wenbin of Shandong — detained since April 2020 with no publicly recorded trial — including source provenance, verification status, and evidentiary limits.
Chronology
- March 30, 2020 — During the COVID-19 outbreak, Zhang Wenbin posts videos under his real name on WeChat calling for “习近平下课” and “共产党下课”. The videos draw about 88,000 views in eighteen hours; his WeChat account is permanently banned the same day. (CPPC case page 2020-05-13; CHRD PoC record)
- April 1, 2020 — Shandong police take Zhang away on suspicion of 寻衅滋事 (“picking quarrels and provoking trouble”). After five days of administrative detention he is subjected to enforced disappearance; his whereabouts become unknown. (CPPC case page; CHRD PoC record)
- April 7, 2020 — Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin Service reports the case: a Shandong university student who posted a video calling on the president to step down was summoned by police, held five days, and became incommunicado. (RFA Mandarin, via CHRD record citation)
- May 5, 2020 — The Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ Prisoners of Conscience database enters Zhang Wenbin’s record: male, Shandong native, charge 寻衅滋事罪， no release date, detention location unknown. (CHRD PoC record)
- May 13, 2020 — The Rights Defense Network’s political-prisoner archive （中国政治犯关注） publishes case CPPC00883 for 张文斌： Shandong university student due to graduate in 2020, programmer, “incommunicado to this day, not released,” secret detention location unknown. (CPPC case page)
- August 31, 2026 — The Rights Defense Network lists 张文斌 in its monthly prisoner report, in the 羁押未判 (detained without trial) group for Shandong. (Issue 131)
Source records
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Prisoners of Conscience database (tenchu.org), record: 张文斌 / ZHANG WEN BIN, entered 2020-05-05, retrieved 2026-10-10. The database the Issue 131 report names as its individual-record source. Sole individual record for this ZH name in the database’s 4,372 records. Establishes ZH identity, Shandong origin, 2020-04-01 detention on 寻衅滋事 suspicion, enforced disappearance, no release date, unknown location. Database search.
- Rights Defense Network （维权网）, 中国政治犯关注， “張文斌（CPPC編號：00883）”, 2020-05-13. ZH-name case record with biographical detail (Shandong student, programmer, video timeline, 5-day administrative detention then disappearance, incommunicado, location unknown); 8 captioned images of the videos. link.
- Radio Free Asia, Mandarin Service, April 7, 2020 report on the Shandong student video case. First international report of the case. link (cited via the CHRD record’s citation).
- Rights Defense Network （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. Places 张文斌 / Zhang Wenbin in the 羁押未判 (detained without trial) group, Shandong region — the custody baseline.
Wrong-person / name-collision records (do not merge)
张文鹏 / Zhang Wenpeng — a 32-year-old Shandong-born human-rights lawyer detained in Sanya, Hainan in September 2024 on 寻衅滋事 charges. Different characters （鹏 vs 斌）, different person, different case.
Contradictions / evidence gaps
- 2021–2026 gap: the CHRD PoC record was entered 2020-05-05 and carries no updates; no 2021–2026 individual record for this person was found. The 2026-08-31 roster listing is the only later dated record. Continuous detention across the gap is NOT asserted — only the dated facts on each side.
- Date of birth, city within Shandong, university name: not established.
- No trial, sentence, or release has been publicly recorded; none may be inferred.
- No PRC official acknowledgment of the detention was found.
Related profile: Zhang Wenbin （张文斌）.