Yin Jiangen (尹建根) — Media Profile & Archive
This archive preserves the source record for Yin Jiangen (尹建根), a self-media writer from Zhuzhou, Hunan, detained in August 2025 over articles criticizing local officials and sentenced in August 2026 to two years and three months for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Sources are listed in chronological order with verification notes. Where facts come from a single civil-society or rights-network account, they are attributed as such throughout.
Source chronology
August 9, 2026 — Weiquanwang (wqw2010 blogspot): sentencing report. Headlined “因言获罪 湖南株洲自媒体人尹建根于2026年8月6日被安徽省和县法院判刑2年3个月,” the report states that Yin was sentenced at first instance on August 6, 2026; that he had been seized across provincial lines on August 11, 2025 after refusing to delete an article criticizing the Liyang Town party secretary; that all charges rested on 450-plus critical articles published under the names “笔耕下的阳光” and “春天那束光”; and that his lawyers’ September 2025 applications for bail, jurisdiction change, and arrest supervision were all refused. It includes his biography (born 1965, Zhuzhou resident, self-media person, Fazhi Zaixian reporter) and the case timeline through the December 2025 transfer to the procuratorate for prosecution review. This is the primary published account of the detention and prosecution. Verification: VERIFIED (page fetched; content internally consistent with the CHRD database record and the Issue-131 bio).
August 31, 2026 — Weiquanwang monthly prisoner roster, Issue 131. Lists 尹建根 among the five prisoners newly learned to have been sentenced (“2 年 3 个月： 尹建根”), with a bio noting the August 6, 2026 sentence by the Hexian County Court, detention at the Hexian County Detention Center, and a term ending November 10, 2027. The English edition gives “Yin Jiangen” at “2 years and 3 months” in the same section. Verification: VERIFIED (local mirrors of both language editions fetched; names match by positional correspondence; facts cross-match the CHRD record).
September 13, 2026 — Free China Movement news report (freechina.live, EN + ZH). “When Criticism Becomes Criminal Evidence: Yin Jiangen Appeal Court Delays Ruling After Acquittal Plea” reports that the appeal hearing of September 10, 2026 ended without a ruling; that defense lawyer Zhang Tingyuan argued for acquittal; that the court called the case major and complex; and that observers were reportedly denied entry to the proceeding, with one unverified allegation of an observer being injured. The companion ZH version (“当批评成为犯罪证据：尹建根二审无罪辩护后法院未当庭宣判”) is the same report in Simplified Chinese. Verification: VERIFIED (site’s own contemporaneous reporting; URL live; facts consistent with the August sentencing record). Recorded as related coverage, not as an independent primary source for the detention facts.
September 13, 2026 — Free China Movement press release (EN + ZH). “Free China Movement Calls for Yin Jiangen’s Conviction to Be Overturned and for His Immediate Release” (ZH: “新闻稿：自由中国运动呼吁撤销尹建根有罪判决并立即释放”). Advocacy statement; establishes the organization’s public position on the case, not new facts about the detention. Verification: VERIFIED (site’s own press release; recorded as related coverage).
Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience Database: 尹建根 / YIN JIANGEN. Database record: born 1965, male; last detention August 11, 2025; charge 寻衅滋事罪 (“picking quarrels provoking troubles”); sentence 2 years 3 months; term ending 2027-11-10; location 安徽省和县看守所 (Anhui He County Detention Center). Case summary identifies him as a Hunan Zhuzhou self-media person and blogger (“笔耕下的阳光”), detained by Hexian police after refusing to delete criticism of the Liyang Town party secretary, and notes the connection to his reporting on petitioner Chen Dezhen’s case. Verification: VERIFIED (record retrieved via the database’s public search, October 2026; anchors cross-match Weiquanwang and Issue-131).
Evidence gaps
- No official court verdict, procuratorate document, or PRC government record for this case was located; the prosecution account comes from Weiquanwang’s reporting and the CHRD database summary.
- The first-instance trial record (February 2026) is reported only as “开庭，未当庭宣判” with no further detail in sources reviewed.
- No outcome of the September 2026 appeal was reported in sources reviewed as of this writing.
- No consular or diplomatic dimension was found; no PRC official source addresses this individual case.