Qiao Xinxin / 乔鑫鑫 — Media Profile & Archive
Person profile: Qiao Xinxin / 乔鑫鑫 (Yang Zewei / 杨泽伟).
Case chronology
- March 2023: Qiao Xinxin helped launch the Ban the Great Firewall movement (BanGFW / 拆墙运动).
- May 31, 2023: He disappeared from his home in Vientiane, Laos. Human-rights organizations later described the case as a cross-border seizure.
- July 2023: Dui Hua reports that the Hengyang People’s Procuratorate indicted him for “inciting subversion of state power.”
- August 2023: A joint NGO statement reported that he had been returned to China and was held in Hengyang, Hunan.
- 2024: Dui Hua reported a five-year sentence following a closed-door trial, with an expected sentence expiry in June 2028.
Source record
Dui Hua Foundation, “Prisoner Updates 2024 #8”: https://duihua.org/prisoner-updates-2024-8/
Amnesty International / CIVICUS / FORUM-ASIA, joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review of Laos: https://www.amnesty.org/ru/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ASA2686212024ENGLISH.pdf
Joint NGO statement hosted by the European Criminal Bar Association: https://ecba.org/extdocserv/projects/HR/20230811_ZS_enforced_disappearance_statement.pdf
U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China, 2024 Annual Report: http://cecc.gov/sites/evo-subsites/cecc.house.gov/files/2024-12/2024-CH20-Human-Rights-Violations-in-the-U.S.-and-Globally.pdf
Evidentiary notes
No public verdict text was located. Claims about the Laos operation are source-attributed. Reports about later prison placement or mistreatment are not treated as independently established facts.