This archive collects reporting on Tu Jincan (涂金灿), a Beijing folk publisher from Hubei Province.
Business and background
The Tenzhu political-prisoner database records Tu as born in 1962 in Xiaogan, Hubei, and describes his Beijing genealogy-and-biography publishing business founded in 2008. It also records earlier political activity and detention.
2023–2026 case
The database reports criminal detention on November 21, 2023 on suspicion of illegal business, formal arrest in December 2023, prosecution through the Haidian authorities, and a March 24, 2026 sentence of three years and six months. URL: http://tenchu.org/pocd/public/pocs/3495
August 31, 2026 — roster
Rights Defense Network / 维权网 Issue 131 places 涂金灿 / Tu Jincan in its four-year sentence group. That differs from the three-year-six-month sentence in the detailed database record; both are reported without attempting to reconcile them by inference.
Evidence limits
No independently obtained court judgment or PRC official case narrative was located. Some additional source links referenced by the database could not be independently opened in the research pass, so they are not used as standalone factual support here.
Person profile: Tu Jincan 涂金灿