Person profile: Lin Minghua (林明华)
This archive preserves reporting on the repeated detentions and sentencings of Shenyang petitioner Lin Minghua.
2016–2020 — earlier cases
CPPC documents Lin’s 2016 seizure in Beijing, later formal arrest, a 2019 re-detention, and a three-year sentence imposed by the Shenyang Tiexi District Court in August 2020. The U.S. State Department report independently records the brother relationship and an earlier Tiexi court three-year sentence.
CPPC profile · State Department report mirror
2023–2024 — third case
The CHRD/tenchu prisoner record reports Lin’s December 28, 2023 seizure in Beijing, subsequent residential surveillance and criminal detention, a July 31, 2024 trial, and a September 6 sentence of three years and six months, with a stated term through June 26, 2027. LiCAS independently reported the detention of petitioner Lin Minghua in Beijing in early January 2024.
August 31, 2026 — roster
Rights Defense Network Issue 131 lists 林明华 in the three-and-a-half-year-sentence group.
Evidence limits
No published court judgment or official detention-location record was located. The most detailed chronology comes from advocacy-aligned prisoner monitors; current facility remains unknown. An RFA item cited by the database could not be independently opened and is not relied on here.