This archive collects media and monitoring records documenting the case of Guan Chenglin (关成林), a Falun Gong practitioner from Faku County, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, sentenced in August 2024 to seven years and six months in prison.
Case chronology of reporting
- August 29, 2023: Police from the Xiushuihe station in Faku County took Guan into custody and questioned him, then placed him in the Faku County detention center. The case stemmed from his forwarding videos about Falun Gong through the Kuaishou mobile app.
- September 28, 2023: The Liaozhong District procuratorate in Shenyang declined to approve arrest; Guan was released after a month in detention and placed under residential surveillance.
- December 2023 – February 2024: Investigators twice visited Guan’s home asking him to identify the phones and Kuaishou account he had used.
- July 10, 2024: Police took Guan from his home a second time; he was held at the Xinmin City detention center.
- July 30, 2024: The Xinmin court tried the case; family defenders entered a not-guilty plea.
- August 22, 2024: The Xinmin court sentenced Guan to seven years and six months with a 20,000-yuan fine. Guan appealed; a case report dated September 26, 2024 said the appeal had reached the Shenyang Intermediate People’s Court.
- January 9, 2032: Reported end of the sentence term, per the CHRD political-prisoner database. Charge and prison facility are recorded as unknown in that database.
Monitoring records
- Minghui (Chinese edition), September 26, 2024 — “遭诬判七年半 沈阳七旬关成林上诉”: the fullest narrative account — identity and hometown, 1997 practice start, the August 29, 2023 custody and September 28 non-arrest release, the July 10, 2024 re-arrest, the July 30 trial, the August 22 sentence (7.5 years + 20,000-yuan fine), the appeal filed, and Xinmin detention center custody; includes a photo captioned 关成林.
- CHRD (Chinese Human Rights Defenders) Prisoners of Conscience database — 关成林 / “Guan Chenglin” record (entered 2024-10-22): the structured case file — male, born 1954, Faku County, Falun Gong, taken 2024-07-10, 7 years 6 months, fine 20,000 yuan, term to 2032-01-09, charge and location unknown; exactly one Chinese-name hit in the full database.
- 维权网 (Rights Defense Network), Issue 131 monthly report, August 31, 2026: 关成林 listed in the 判刑7年6个月 (sentenced 7 years 6 months) group. Used for name-character resolution and sentence corroboration.
Evidentiary limitations
- The appeal outcome is unknown; the article reports only that the appeal reached the Shenyang Intermediate People’s Court. It must not be stated that the appeal succeeded or failed.
- The criminal charge is unknown per CHRD; the narrative describes the conduct (forwarding videos via Kuaishou) without naming the criminal charge applied by the court.
- The prison facility is unknown.
- Current custody status beyond September 26, 2024 has not been re-verified.
- No PRC court document, state-media, or consular record of this case was found in targeted searches.
- 关连斌 (Guan Lianbin) and 管成林 are different people; their records are not merged into this case.
Consulate / official-source check
No consular dimension (a PRC citizen detained in the PRC). No PRC court-published judgment, state-media report, or official record of this case was located. Recorded as: not found.
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