Person profile: Feng Junying / 冯俊英
This archive collects the published records documenting the case of Feng Junying (冯俊英), a co-worker of the Linfen Golden Lampstand Church in Shanxi sentenced in June 2025 to four years and ten months in prison. Sources are graded; facts are presented as reported, not as independently verified findings.
Case chronology
- 1997 — Joins the Linfen Golden Lampstand Church as an early member.
- 2005 — Becomes manager of the church’s funds.
- 2017 — Appointed head of the church’s second pastoral district (six areas), continuing fund management; jointly manages funds with co-worker Chen Qinglan from 2018. (Database-reported.)
- 2018 — The church’s worship site is demolished by the government.
- August 7, 2021 — Detained by Yaodu District police on suspicion of fraud, with other church leaders and co-workers.
- November 25, 2021 — Released on bail; seven others formally arrested the following month; case transferred to the Linfen City Procuratorate in December 2021.
- 2022–2024 — Bail and residential surveillance under court renewals (April 2022, April 2023, October 2023, October 2024).
- June 17 / June 20, 2025 — Sentencing: Church in Chains gives June 17 for the court session; Bitter Winter and CHRD give June 20 for the verdict announcement. Feng sentenced to four years and ten months with a 40,000-yuan fine for “fraud.”
- August 15, 2025 — The Linfen Intermediate People’s Court upholds the verdicts on appeal; Feng is taken back into custody at Yuci Prison.
- August 31, 2026 — Listed by the Rights Defense Network among in-custody political prisoners.
Published source records
- ChinaAid (recognized religious-freedom human-rights NGO), “山西’临汾教案’再起：金灯台教会众领袖再次被捕，面临刑事指控” (January 11, 2022) — reports that nine Golden Lampstand Church leaders detained on August 7, 2021 included Feng; those released on bail included 冯俊英, Chen Qinglan, Li Qin, Wang Xianfeng, and Yang Hongzhen, while seven others were formally arrested on fraud-suspicion charges. Opened and read in full. Original article.
- Bitter Winter (established independent media on religious freedom), “Heavy Jail Penalties in the Linfen Golden Lampstand Church Case” (June 2025) — reports that on June 20, 2025, ten Golden Lampstand Church members were sentenced for “fraud,” including Sister Feng Junying: four years and ten months in prison with a 40,000-yuan fine. Records the 2021 detentions, the reported 50,000-member congregation, the 2018 demolition, and pressure on defendants to dismiss their Christian lawyers. Strongest source for the sentence facts. Opened and read in full. Original article.
- Church in Chains (Ireland) (established Christian solidarity and monitoring organization), “Linfen Golden Lampstand leaders receive long sentences” (2025) — lists Feng Junying among the ten defendants (4 years 10 months, 40,000 RMB fine), identifying her as the church’s financial administrator; gives the sentencing session date as June 17 and details asset seizures of over RMB 17.3 million. Cites ChinaAid and Bitter Winter. Opened and read in full. Original article.
- Bitter Winter, “Appeal Verdict Confirms Harsh Sentences for Golden Lampstand Church Leaders” (August 2025) — reports that on August 15, 2025, the Linfen Intermediate People’s Court upheld the June 2025 verdicts; records defense complaints of procedural irregularities. Feng is not individually named; the article supplies the appeal context for the re-detention date. Opened and read in full. Original article.
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience database (recognized human-rights NGO), individual record for 冯俊英 / “Feng Junying” — establishes the biography (born August 4, 1957; Guojiazhuang, Yaodu District, Linfen) and the case timeline: detained August 7, 2021; bail November 25, 2021; renewals through 2024; sentenced June 20, 2025, to 4 years 10 months with a 40,000-yuan fine for 诈骗罪; taken back into custody after the August 15, 2025 second-instance verdict; now at Yuci Prison; term to about January 2030. The database is the individual-record source named by the Rights Defense Network’s Issue-131 report. Database search page.
- Radio Free Asia (Mandarin) (established international media), “山西临汾教会九人被捕 多年抗拒加入三自教会” (2021) — covers the August 2021 detentions and the church’s resistance to the Three-Self system; does not name Feng Junying. Recorded as case background only. Original article.
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) (rights monitoring organization), Issue 131 monthly in-custody report, August 31, 2026 — lists “Feng Junying” among in-custody political prisoners.
Disambiguation record (do not merge)
The Fushun “Feng Junying” pension-withholding case (reported 2000–2002; male pronouns; an administrative dispute, not an imprisonment case) is a different person — a name-similarity collision, not the same individual.
Evidentiary limitations
No official court judgment or state-media record of this case has been located. “Fraud” (诈骗罪) is a reported charge of conviction, not an official finding; the lawyers’ and advocates’ counter-position — that the church’s tithes and offerings were voluntary religious donations — is recorded alongside it. The detail that a detention-center sentencing session excluded lawyers comes from the CHRD record alone. The sentencing-session date differs by source: June 17 (Church in Chains) versus June 20 (Bitter Winter, CHRD) — preserved as session versus verdict announcement. The internal church-role history is database-reported and appears in no other located source. No consular or diplomatic dimension applies.
Person profile: Feng Junying (冯俊英)