Author: Free China Movement

Ekpar Asat (艾克拜尔·艾赛提) is a Uyghur entrepreneur and philanthropist from Xinjiang who disappeared in April 2016, weeks after returning from a US State Department leadership program, and was later confirmed to have been sentenced to 15 years in…

Person profile: Ye’erjiang Huaxi (叶尔江·胡阿西) Media Archive: Ye’erjiang Huaxi (叶尔江·胡阿西) This archive preserves the source record for the case of Ye’erjiang Huaxi (叶尔江·胡阿西), the ethnic Kazakh imam of the Alemale Village mosque in Gongliu County, Xinjiang, sentenced to…

Ye’erjiang Huaxi (叶尔江·胡阿西) is an ethnic Kazakh Muslim from Gongliu County in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. He served as the imam — the prayer leader — of the mosque in Alemale Village, Jiergelang Township, Gongliu County.…

Person profile: Yao Zhou (姚洲) Media Archive: Yao Zhou (姚洲) This archive preserves the source record for the case of Yao Zhou (姚洲), a Falun Gong practitioner from Changde, Hunan, sentenced to three and a half years in…

Yao Zhou (姚洲) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Changde City, Hunan Province. Born in 1972, she worked as a first-level administrative law-enforcement officer (一级行政执法员) at the Wuling District Tax Bureau in Changde. According to reporting by 维权网…

Person profile: Yao Yufen Media record: the case of Yao Yufen, Baishan, Jilin Key records Minghui.org, “66-Year-Old Jilin Woman Sentenced to 4 Years for Practicing Falun Gong,” 26 March 2026 — the principal profile record. Reports Yao Yufen,…

Yao Yufen is a Falun Gong practitioner from Baishan City, Jilin Province, who is serving a four-year prison term imposed in late 2024. Yao, reported to be 66 years old (one report describes her as in her 70s…

Person profile: Yao Xilin Media and document record: the 2024–2025 All Ranges Church case in Nyingchi Case background. On Christmas Day, 25 December 2024, the People’s Procuratorate of Bayi District, Nyingchi City, filed criminal charges against ten Christians…

Yao Xilin is a Christian church leader from Heilongjiang Province who was detained in Nyingchi, in the Tibet Autonomous Region, in a 2024 crackdown on the All Ranges Church, an unregistered Protestant house-church network. Born on 15 February…

Person profile: Yao Shuxia (姚淑霞) This archive preserves the source record behind the Yao Shuxia (姚淑霞) profile: a Falun Gong practitioner from Hailin City, Heilongjiang, sentenced to six years and three months in prison on March 30, 2021,…