Huang Lei (黄磊) is the founder and pastor of Panshi Bible Family Church in Yueyang, Hunan Province. Religious-freedom monitoring organizations report that he was detained during coordinated police raids on the church in July 2026 and transferred into criminal detention when his initial administrative detention expired.
July 2026 raids
Voice of the Martyrs Korea reports that police raided several Panshi Bible Church gathering sites and homes on July 11, 2026, searched the premises, confiscated religious materials and collected biometric information from some detainees. Huang was detained along with preacher Hu Hongtao and elder Yang Jianjun.
Bitter Winter reports that when the three men’s administrative detention expired on July 26, they were transferred into criminal detention on suspicion of “illegal use of information networks.”
Status and evidence limits
Bitter Winter reported on August 25, 2026 that Huang, Hu Hongtao and Yang Jianjun remained at Yueyang First Detention Center with limited access to legal counsel. Rights Defense Network Issue 131 also lists Huang in custody as of August 31, 2026. He has not been reported as sentenced, and no current status beyond those dated reports is inferred.
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