Jin Hanqin (金汉琴） — Political Prisoner Profile
Case chronology
- 1997: Jin Hanqin and her sister Jin Hanyan graduate from the Shiyan Agricultural School; the promised public-sector placement under the 1997 graduate-placement document is not honored. (Chinese Human Rights Defenders database)
- 2005: The sisters are given 15 days’ administrative detention and later one year and nine months of re-education through labor after attempting to take up the promised posts. (Chinese Human Rights Defenders database)
- 2007–2012: Repeated detentions: months in a black jail at the Sigou tobacco station (2007), seizures from Beijing and confinement in the Tumen Town government compound (2008), confinement and forced medication at the Maoping welfare home (2012). (Chinese Human Rights Defenders database)
- November 2013: The independent outlet Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch reports the sister, Jin Hanyan, intercepted in Beijing and confined in a black jail in Jiulongsi village — corroborating the family’s documented persecution. (民生观察， 2013-11-11)
- April 2022: The sisters petition in Beijing and are intercepted by Yunxi personnel. June 14, 2022: criminal detention for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”; June 28, 2022: transfer to the Shiyan detention center. (Chinese Human Rights Defenders database)
- 2022: Yunxi County Court sentences both sisters to eight years and six months; term recorded to December 13, 2030. (Chinese Human Rights Defenders database)
- 2023–2025: Appeal; Shiyan Intermediate Court second-instance judgment vacates the sentences; February 24, 2025 retrial application to the Hubei High Court — outcome not publicly confirmed. (Chinese Human Rights Defenders database)
- August 31, 2026: Listed as in custody in the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 mainland-China political-prisoner monthly report. (维权网）
Media and source records
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders, prisoner-of-conscience database (record entered August 4, 2022) — the case-bearing record for 金汉琴： identity, petitioning history, 2005–2022 detentions, the 2022 case, sentencing, appeal, retrial application, and detention facility. Source type: recognized human-rights NGO database. Note: the record’s 2009 Boxun and China Digital Times “other source” links could not be opened during verification (see limitations).
- 民生观察 (Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch), November 11, 2013 — “湖北金汉艳等一组访民被截访关黑监狱的消息” (“Petitioners incl. Jin Hanyan of Hubei Intercepted and Confined in a Black Jail”). Names the sister Jin Hanyan, intercepted in Beijing on November 8, 2013, by Tumen Town officials and confined in a black jail in Jiulongsi village. Full text (Chinese). Source type: established independent Chinese-language rights media. Relevance to Jin Hanqin: family-case background (weak match for her individually).
- Rights Defense Network (维权网）, Issue 131 — 《中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告（2026年8月31日）》 — Jin Hanqin listed as in custody, August 31, 2026. Chinese edition: chinatruth.net (ZH); English edition: chinatruth.net (EN). Source type: established independent Chinese-language rights-monitoring organization.
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders database record for Jin Hanyan (金汉艳） — sibling record with mirrored case facts; cross-confirms the family case and the sister relationship. For publisher reference (the sister is a separate person’s record).
Related records
Profile: Jin Hanqin (金汉琴） — Political Prisoner Profile. Note: her sister Jin Hanyan (金汉艳） is a separate person with her own case record.
Evidence limitations
The retrial-application outcome (filed February 24, 2025) is unverified — the sentence should not be presented as final or as vacated as current fact. The 2009 Boxun and China Digital Times links cited by the database record could not be opened during preparation; the publisher should click-verify them. No independent international-media coverage was located. The August 31, 2026 custody listing is the most recent status evidence available.