Profile: Sun Qing (孙清)
This page preserves the source record behind the profile of Sun Qing (孙清), an online-speech detainee from Huzhu County, Qinghai, held since May 2020 on the suspected charge of inciting subversion of state power. Sources are graded; allegations remain attributed rather than stated as fact.
Source chronology
- China Political Prisoner Concern — case 01241, 孙清 (published December 22, 2022): The most detailed case narrative located: Sun, of Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Haidong, Qinghai, was an online activist whose posts from 2014 onward criticized government policies, leadership, COVID-19 measures, and ethnic policy; identifies the three Twitter accounts (@maowus2, @ruoguang86, @cittakusala) and his WeChat activity; states that in May 2020 the Qinghai provincial public-security state-security task force ordered Huzhu County police to detain him and place him under criminal detention on the suspected charge of inciting subversion of state power, and that the Huzhu County Procuratorate approved formal arrest on that charge; the case was tried at the Huzhu County Court in December 2022. The page also carries an image of the indictment (起诉书) — primary-document-derived material. Limitation: at the time of writing, sentencing status was uncertain (“may have been sentenced, exact sentence unclear”); birth date and occupation unknown. Source grade: recognized human-rights monitoring organization; allegations attributed, not independently adjudicated. Case page.
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) — Prisoners of Conscience database record for 孙清 / “SUN QING” (record entered December 30, 2022): Retrieved directly from the database; exactly one record matches the name (no collision in a full database dump). Corroborates: native of Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Haidong, Qinghai; detained May 2020; suspected charge 煽动颠覆国家政权罪; held at the Huzhu County Detention Center; tried December 2022, not yet sentenced at record entry. Source grade: recognized human-rights NGO prisoner database — the individual-record source named by the Rights Defense Network’s Issue-131 report. Limitation: record-level provenance only; no court document attached. Database search page.
- 维权网 (Rights Defense Network) — Issue-131 roster of political prisoners in custody (August 31, 2026): Lists “Sun Qing” in the Qinghai regional group under 羁押未判 (detained, not yet sentenced) — the most current dated status evidence located. Name-only entry; carries no case facts beyond name, region, and unsentenced status.
- Source citations documented but not independently read: CHRD cites a Beijing Spring article (beijingspring.com, December 23, 2022) — the page returned an HTTP 500 on three read attempts and is recorded as broken; and a Twitter status (@speechfreedomcn) — not readable under the current fetch policy. Both are preserved here as cited-only, not as read.
Provenance and limitations
- The criminal charge is alleged/suspected; no conviction has been reported by any located source.
- The December 2022 sources disagree on whether a sentence was pronounced; the August 2026 roster’s 羁押未判 (detained, not yet sentenced) is the most current status evidence.
- No PRC court-published judgment or state-media report for this case was located; no consular or diplomatic dimension applies.
- Related but distinct people (do-not-merge): 孙庆菊 / Sun Qingju (different characters, separate profile); 孙萍 / Sun Ping (different person); 孙萌 / Sun Meng (roster surname-index neighbor only).
Profile: Sun Qing (孙清)