Person profile: Lian Changnian (廉长年)
This archive preserves the dated reporting on the Church of Abundance case involving Lian Changnian. Allegations remain allegations; no verdict has been located.
August 2022 — church ban and detention
Morning Star News, citing ChinaAid and Bitter Winter, reported that the Church of Abundance was banned as an unregistered organization after Lian Changnian, Lian Xuliang, and other church workers were detained. USCIRF records Lian Changnian’s August 17, 2022 detention and later formal arrest on a fraud allegation.
2025 — trial without verdict and re-detention
Bitter Winter reported trial proceedings beginning June 24, 2025; ChinaAid later reported a July 9 hearing. Christian Post reported that Lian, his son, and Fu Juan were detained again on November 2, 2025 while awaiting a verdict and that Lian Changnian was taken from hospital care to the Weiyang District Detention Center.
Bitter Winter · Christian Post
2026 — roster and unresolved status
Rights Defense Network Issue 131 lists 廉长年 in the Shaanxi detained-without-trial group as of August 31, 2026. Reports in September 2026 confirm that his son Lian Xuliang returned home, but they do not confirm Lian Changnian’s release.
The Red Lighthouse · FreeChina.live related coverage
Evidence limits
Torture, mistreatment, witness-coercion, and health-deterioration allegations come from advocacy and religious-freedom sources and remain attributed. The “fraud” allegation is the reported basis of the prosecution, not an established finding of guilt. No verdict or reliable current-status confirmation for Lian Changnian was located.