杨金德 (Yang Jinde) — Media Profile & Archive

Person Profile: 杨金德 (Yang Jinde) — Political Prisoner Profile

Identification method

The Issue 131 roster's Chinese edition lists 杨金德 in its sentenced-to-18-years group, but gives no case detail. A record in an independent prisoners-of-conscience database (queried directly, October 10, 2026) gives the same Chinese characters with the romanization "Yang Jinde," a Nanyang, Henan auto-sales businessman, detained October 12, 2010, with a final 18-year sentence — matching the roster's sentence figure. Across the database's 4,372 records, exactly one entry matches this name, and all name-variant queries resolve to it. The identification rests on: exact Chinese name + romanization + case geography + detention date + the final 18-year sentence matching the roster band.

Source chronology

July 30, 2011 — First-instance judgment (Tanghe County Court, Nanyang). Six charges convicted; combined 21 years and 6 months, executed as 20 years, plus a 400,000-yuan fine (reported via the advocacy-database record).
October 11–28, 2011 — International media coverage of the torture claims. Shanghai Daily reported the case (summarized in WikiLeaks' Global Intelligence Files as a 20-year jailing); NPR reported on October 28 that Yang, then 43, a Nanyang car dealer, claimed torture at a Nanyang police-dog training base (blind in one eye, deaf in one ear) through lawyer Zhu Mingyong and his sister Yang Jinfen, noting a 21.5-year sentence. Both figures predate the final ruling.
October 24, 2011 — Sina News, "Behind the allegation of torture of a 'gang boss'" (黑老大遭刑讯逼供的背后). A long-form account of the case, the torture allegations, and the official response.
November 3, 2011 — Second-instance ruling (Nanyang Intermediate Court). Five charges; 18 years' imprisonment, 400,000-yuan fine, term to September 26, 2028.
November 4, 2011 — Radio France Internationale (Chinese). Reported the second-instance 18-year sentence ("杨金德因上访被控涉黑二审被重判18年").
2022 — Chinese Political Prisoner Concern record (CPPC 01112). Compiles the full case: birth date, company, dispute, petition, detention, trial, both rulings, the torture allegations with the family's account, the official denials and medical-exam findings, and the Henan Provincial No. 2 Prison address.
March 4, 2022 (entry date) — Prisoners-of-conscience database record. DOB 1968.9.29; detained 2010.10.12; charge listed as disrupting social order; 18 years; term to 2028.9.26; Henan Provincial No. 2 Prison, Xinxiang.
August 31, 2026 — Rights Defense Network Issue 131. Lists 杨金德 in the sentenced-to-18-years group.

Media records

Chinese Human Rights Defenders' Prisoners of Conscience database — direct query record for 杨金德 (retrieved October 10, 2026) — VERIFIED
Chinese Political Prisoner Concern, 杨金德（CPPC编号：01112） (2022) — VERIFIED (opened and read)
NPR, "Chinese Activists Turn To Twitter In Rights Cases" (October 28, 2011), via mirror — VERIFIED (opened and read)
WikiLeaks Global Intelligence Files, CSM summary of Shanghai Daily (October 11, 2011) — DUPLICATE of the same case reporting (canonical: Shanghai Daily/CSM)
Sina News, "黑老大遭刑讯逼供的背后" (October 24, 2011) — PARTIALLY VERIFIED: title and topic confirmed; article body could not be decoded in retrieval (character-encoding fault) — publisher click-verification noted
Radio France Internationale (Chinese), November 4, 2011 — UNOPENED: retrieval blocked by policy at research time — publisher click-verification noted
Rights Defense Network Issue 131 monthly report (August 31, 2026) — VERIFIED (read locally, Chinese edition)
An Epoch Times article (October 2011) on the torture claims is referenced by the CPPC record but was not opened — not cited as evidence here.

Official-source / consulate check

Official position found and incorporated: Henan police stated that investigations and medical examinations found no torture in the case; the Nanyang Intermediate Court ruled the torture claim not established. Reported via the CPPC compilation and the Sina long-form account.
No consular involvement: Yang is a Chinese national with no foreign-national element; no consular case found. Not applicable beyond the recorded official denials.

Conflicts and limitations

The torture allegations and the official denials directly contradict each other; neither is independently verified. The page must keep both attributed.
Earlier reports cited 20 or 21.5 years; these refer to the first-instance judgment and its combined figure, not the final 18-year sentence.
The latest dated custody-location evidence is March 4, 2022 (Henan Provincial No. 2 Prison). No later dated source confirms his present location.
The roster and database records are monitoring compilations, not court documents; the judgment figures come via advocacy-database compilation.