Kan Xiaoyong — Media Profile & Source Archive
Key sources (listed newest first; one-line descriptions):
- U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, 2026 China country profile — victim-list entry for Kan Xiaoyong: status “Not Released”; religion “Christian – Protestant”; abuse type “Imprisonment.” https://uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/China%20-VL%20Country%20Profile%202026%20(2).pdf
- IDEA Switzerland (idea.ch), sample advocacy letter, December 2024 — asks the Chinese president to release Kan Xiaoyong (66) and wife Wang Fengying (64) of Dalian, arrested October 20, 2021, sentenced January 12, 2024 to 14 and 4 years. https://www.idea.ch/fileadmin/news/gefangener/Musterbrief_CH_Englisch_12_2024.pdf
- USCIRF, 2025 Annual Report (China chapter) — notes a court “unjustly sentenced Protestant pastor Kan Xiaoyong to 14 years in prison” in January 2024. https://chinaaid.org/news/the-united-states-commission-on-international-religious-freedoms-uscirf-2025-annual-report-calls-for-china-as-a-country-of-particular-concern/
- Human Rights Without Frontiers, FoRB Newsletter China 2024 (PDF) — cites the Bitter Winter sentencing report. https://hrwf.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/China-2024.pdf
- Worthy Christian News, January 2024 — online preacher, wife, and four members sentenced; torture claims at hearing undisputed by prosecution. https://www.worthynews.com/92667-china-pastor-and-wife-sentenced-to-lengthy-jail-terms-for-online-preaching
- Christian Daily International, January 2024 — sentencing details (RFA-based): 14 years for Kan, 4 for his wife, 3–10 for four members; moved Wuhan→Dalian 2018, Home Discipleship Network; initial sentence expectations exceeded 20 years. https://www.christiandaily.com/news/chinese-pastor-sentenced-to-14-years-for-peddling-superstition
- Bitter Winter (Tan Qiu), January 15, 2024 — fullest case account: Ganjingzi District People’s Court verdicts, charge mechanics (illegal business + xie-jiao-type), fraud acquittal, Wuhan background. https://bitterwinter.org/dalian-house-church-pastor-kan-xiaoyong-sentenced-to-14-years-in-jail/
- Mainland Affairs Council (Taiwan), 宗教自由 compilation, July 2024 (PDF) — official table row: 闞小勇牧師, Dalian 门训家园网, suspected 利用迷信破坏法律实施 + 非法经营, 14 years, others 3–10 years; cites ChinaAid (2024-01-12), RFA (2024-01-14), 光传媒. https://ws.mac.gov.tw/001/Upload/295/relfile/8036/80465/e0e1bd78-944e-4ba8-a105-71ca131e252a.pdf
- Rights Defense Network / 维权网, Issue 131, August 31, 2026 — §K name-index entry “Kan Xiaoyong” among 1,638 reported current-custody cases. (Source roster reproduced on freechina.live.)
Source note: The FreeChina roster entry is a name-only listing from Rights Defense Network Issue 131, 2026-08-31 — a reported-custody index, not an independent verification of custody. The most detailed reporting comes from Bitter Winter and Christian Daily, both downstream of Radio Free Asia and ChinaAid reporting from January 2024. The Chinese character form 闞小勇 is taken from the Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council’s 2024 compilation; no mainland official source or court judgment for this case was located. Custody status is reported (Issue 131; USCIRF “Not Released”), not independently verified.