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Luo Ping (罗平) — Media Profile & Archive

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Media Profile & Archive — Luo Ping (罗平)

This archive accompanies the Person Profile of Luo Ping, a member of the New City (世纪新城) Church in Kunming, detained during a Sunday-service raid on April 12, 2026 and formally arrested on May 20, 2026 on suspicion of “organizing illegal gatherings.”

Case overview

The New City (世纪新城) Church case is a 2026 Kunming house-church prosecution. Three members — preacher Yu Shaolin (虞少林), Li Qun (李群), and Luo Ping (罗平) — were detained during a Sunday-service raid on April 12, 2026 and formally arrested on May 20, 2026 on suspicion of “organizing illegal gatherings.” The case illustrates how the charge is applied to small, unregistered congregations: the church has roughly thirty members, many of them long-term patients, and served as a mutual-support refuge before the raid.

Chronology of documented events

  • April 12, 2026 — Police raid the New City Church’s Sunday service in Kunming; Yu Shaolin, Li Qun, and Luo Ping are taken away. (ChinaAid, 民生观察)
  • May 20, 2026 — The Guandu branch of the Kunming Public Security Bureau serves formal arrest notices; the three are charged on suspicion of “organizing illegal gatherings” and held at the Guandu District Detention Center. (ChinaAid; arrest notice image of Yu Shaolin published)
  • May 22, 2026 — ChinaAid publishes its report on the arrests, noting the church’s open letter seeking prayer and legal help, the repeated summoning of remaining believers, and the Guandu branch’s non-response to a request for comment.
  • May 29, 2026 — 民生观察 publishes its report on the arrests with the same dates, charge, and detention facility.
  • August 31 – September 1, 2026 — Free China Movement publishes case-phase coverage: pretrial conference set for September 2, trial for September 16, citing ChinaAid and Chinese rights-monitoring sources; issues a statement calling for a fair trial, medical care, and religious freedom.

Media records

  1. ChinaAid (对华援助新闻网), “中国收紧宗教控制：云南一家庭教会传道人及信徒遭’非法聚集’罪名批捕”, May 22, 2026. https://www.chinaaid.net/2026/05/blog-post_785.html — Christian persecution monitoring organization (US-based NGO). Names 罗平 explicitly as one of the three detained believers; establishes raid date (April 12), arrest date (May 20), charge (组织非法聚集罪), detention facility (官渡区看守所); publishes Yu Shaolin’s arrest notice image; quotes the church’s open letter and an Open Doors partner; notes police non-response. Renders the co-detainee’s name as 李勤 (see discrepancy note).
  2. 民生观察 (msguancha.com), “昆明世纪新城教案虞少林等三人被批捕”, May 29, 2026. https://msguancha.com/plus/view.php?aid=25471 — independent Chinese-language rights media. Independently corroborates the case facts — April 12 raid, May 20 arrests, charge, Guandu detention facility, ~30-member congregation, open letter, Open Doors partner quote. Names Yu Shaolin and “另外2名教会同工” without naming 罗平; identity linkage for 罗平 comes via ChinaAid, CHRD, and FCM’s own coverage.
  3. Free China Movement, “自由中国运动呼吁昆明家庭教会案保障公平审判、医疗照顾与宗教自由” (ZH statement), September 1, 2026. https://freechina.live/简体中文-simplified-chinese/zh-kunming-house-church-fair-trial-religious-freedom-statement-2/ — FCM’s own published statement. Names 传道人虞少林 and 教会成员李群、罗平; records the September 2 pretrial conference and September 16 trial schedule.
  4. Free China Movement, “昆明世纪新城教会案进入审理阶段：9月2日庭前会议，9月16日开庭”, August 31, 2026. https://freechina.live/简体中文-simplified-chinese/zh-kunming-house-church-trial-september-2026/ — FCM’s own reporting; trial-phase coverage citing ChinaAid and Chinese rights-monitoring sources; names 李群、罗平 as detained since April.
  5. CHRD Prisoners of Conscience database (tenchu.org), record for 罗平 (Luo Ping), entered 2026-06-11. https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/searchpage (query name=罗平) — human-rights monitoring database; identity anchor: male, Kunming, 世纪新城教会 member, 2026-04-12 detention, 组织、资助非法聚集罪 charge, 官渡区看守所; its summary cites the ChinaAid and 民生观察 reports as its sources.
  6. CHRD / 维权网, 《中国大陆在押政治犯、良心犯月度报告》 Issue 131 (2026-08-31). Roster listing — 罗平 in the §VII Yunnan un-sentenced tally. Previously verified via chinatruth.net rehosts (2026-09-25); the rehost pages now return 404 (site removed them). Cited with broken-URL flag.

Records explicitly excluded (do-not-merge)

  • Amnesty International French write-a-thon page for 刘萍 (LIU PING, New Citizens Movement, sentenced 2014) — different surname (刘/Liu vs 罗/Luo).
  • zhuichaguoji.org notices naming 云南 + 罗-surname persons (e.g., 罗白秀, 2016 寻甸 case) — weak match / different person.
  • Any 罗平 in unrelated contexts (place names, corporate persons) — none attributable.

Evidentiary limitations

No court document, indictment text, or verdict has been located. Charges are reported as suspicion/指控 — reported, never as convictions. No verdict or release information; no age, occupation, or family details for Luo Ping beyond church membership; trial outcome after September 16, 2026 is unconfirmed in sources located.

Co-detainee name discrepancy: ChinaAid writes 李勤; CHRD and FCM’s reporting use 李群. This archive uses 李群; the discrepancy should not be resolved by guessing. CHRD’s summary writes “余传道” where the person is 虞少林 — a transcription variant, not a separate identity.

For the case narrative, see the companion Person Profile.