Person profile: Yu Juncong / 余浚聪
This page collects the published reporting on the case of Yu Juncong (余浚聪), a Jasic Technology worker detained in the 2018 Jasic union-organizing case in Shenzhen, with source attributions and the limits of what is known. All case details are reported as attributed to their sources.
Identity note: The Chinese form 余浚聪 is verified against the Rights Defense Network’s Issue 131 Chinese edition, which places him in the Guangdong “detained, not yet sentenced” group alongside fellow Jasic detainees Liu Penghua, Li Zhan, and Fu Changguo. The roster’s English spelling “Yu Junccong” is a transcription variant of the same person.
Case chronology
- January 2017 — Joins Jasic Technology in Shenzhen’s Pingshan District. (Labor Notes)
- July 2017 – March 2018 — Raises grievances over illegal scheduling, double-pay deductions for days off, and mandatory company hikes; punished with denial of overtime and cleaning duty. (Labor Notes, via his wife’s account)
- May 2018 — Leads drafting of a joint letter demanding an end to illegal fines, forced hikes, and abuse, and calling for a union; 28 signatures collected and submitted to the Pingshan District union on May 10. (CHRD prisoners database)
- May 10, 2018 — Fired by Jasic. (CHRD prisoners database; Wikipedia, citing workers’ open letter)
- July 27, 2018 — Arrested attempting to re-enter the factory with other fired workers; his wife and younger brother, present in support, were also arrested. (Labor Notes)
- August 24, 2018 — Xinhua report on the Jasic incident characterizes Yu, Liu Penghua, and Mi Jiuping as directed by a workers’ center staff member. (Xinhua, as summarized in reporting)
- August 30, 2018 — Lawyer meets Yu; the lawyer is subsequently pressured to withdraw; later requests for a new lawyer are not accepted. (HRIC)
- September 3, 2018 — Guangdong police formally arrest Liu Penghua; reporting on whether Yu, Mi Jiuping, and Li Zhan were formally arrested or placed under other forms of detention that day is inconsistent across sources. (CHRD database; Wikipedia — flagged as needing citation)
- December 7, 2018 — Human Rights in China lists Yu among 32 Jasic-connected detainees: detained since July 2018, charged with “gathering a crowd to disrupt social order,” held at Shenzhen Municipal No. 2 Detention Center. (HRIC)
- March 13, 2019 — Chinese Human Rights Defenders files a complaint with UN Special Procedures over Yu and four fellow detainees; the filing states the exact formal-arrest date is unknown because no notification reached family or lawyer. (CHRD)
- August 31, 2026 — Listed in the Rights Defense Network’s monthly in-custody report, Guangdong “detained, not yet sentenced” group. (维权网, Issue 131)
Media and documentary record
- Labor Notes — “Jasic Detainee #3: The Story of Yu Juncong: Always Standing Against Injustice” (November 19, 2018): biographical profile based on his wife Huang Lanfeng’s recollections — 1993 Shangrao birth, January 2017 Jasic start, grievance history, May 2018 firing, July 27 arrest with wife and younger brother, detention at Shenzhen No. 2 Detention Center as one of four workers awaiting trial. Article (U.S. labor publication; family-attributed account).
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — “Submission to UN on FU Changguo, LI Zhan, LIU Penghua, MI Jiuping and YU Juncong” (filed March 13, 2019; published April 1, 2019): UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention filing — full identity detail (余/浚聪, born November 12, 1993, Shangrao, Jiangxi), Jasic worker/activist with a leading union-organizing role; arrest July 27, 2018 at the Jasic factory; detention at Shenzhen Municipal No. 2 Detention Center; exact formal-arrest date unknown (no family/lawyer notification); charge “gathering a crowd to disrupt social order.” Filing (human-rights NGO).
- Human Rights in China — “HRIC Urges International Attention on 32 Jasic Workers and Supporters Detained, Disappeared” (December 7, 2018): lists “Yu Juncong (余浚聪), male, Jasic worker, detained since July 2018, charged with ‘gathering a crowd to disrupt social order,’ being held at the Shenzhen Municipal No. 2 Detention Center”; lawyer met August 30 then pressured to withdraw. Bulletin (human-rights NGO).
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience database entry “余浚聪 / YU JUN CONG”: born 1993, Jiangxi Shangrao native, Jasic union-building worker and rights-defense representative; May 2018 joint letter, May 10 firing, July 2018 detentions, September 3, 2018 arrest with Liu Penghua, Mi Jiuping, and Li Zhan on “gathering a crowd to disrupt social order”; family received no formal detention notice. (NGO database record.)
- Wikipedia — 佳士事件 (Jasic incident): corroborates May 10, 2018 firing (citing workers’ open letter); notes September 3, 2018 police actions (formal arrest of Liu Penghua; “soft detention” of Mi, Yu, and Li — flagged on-page as needing citation); summarizes the August 24, 2018 Xinhua report naming Yu Juncong among workers said to have been directed by a workers’ center staff member. Article (tertiary; corroborating only).
- Wikipedia — 佳士工人声援团 (Jasic Workers Solidarity Group): “余浚聪：支持组建工会的佳士员工，撰写了给佳士科技的首封公开信” — corroborates his role as author of the first open letter to Jasic Technology. Article (tertiary; corroborating only).
- Rights Defense Network / 维权网 — Issue 131 monthly in-custody report (August 31, 2026): lists 余浚聪 in the Guangdong “detained, not yet sentenced” (羁押未判) group; Chinese edition supplies the characters; English edition gives “Yu Junccong.” (Monitoring-organization roster — dated classification, not independent confirmation of current custody.)
Evidentiary limitations
- Sources disagree on the formal-arrest record: the CHRD prisoners database gives September 3, 2018 as the arrest date for Yu with three fellow workers; CHRD’s March 2019 UN filing states the exact formal-arrest date is unknown because no notification reached family or lawyer; Wikipedia describes a September 3 “soft detention” (flagged as needing citation).
- Detention location is reported as Shenzhen Municipal No. 2 Detention Center (CHRD, HRIC, Labor Notes) but as Shenzhen Longgang District Detention Center in the CHRD prisoners database — unresolved.
- The August 24, 2018 Xinhua characterization (workers directed by a workers’ center staff member) is recorded as an attributed official claim, not an established fact; the labor-rights groups’ accounts differ.
- The Labor Notes profile is based on his wife Huang Lanfeng’s recollections as told to the writer — family-attributed, not independently verified.
- No trial, verdict, sentence, release, or official disposition has been located. The August 2026 roster listing may be stale; it is preserved as a dated classification.
Person profile: Yu Juncong / 余浚聪