Media Profile & Archive — Zhang Wenying (张文英）
For the profile of Zhang Wenying, see Zhang Wenying (张文英）.
This archive preserves the key published reports documenting Zhang Wenying’s case — the elder of an unregistered Seventh-day Adventist congregation in Guizhou sentenced to 12 years on fraud charges — in chronological order.
2021 — ChinaAid: four church leaders heavily sentenced
On August 14, 2021, the ChinaAid Chinese-language news site reported that four leaders of the Kaili Seventh-day Adventist meeting point had been heavily sentenced on fraud charges and that the case was under appeal at the Qiandongnan Intermediate Court. The report states that the more-than-two-decade-old congregation had repeatedly applied to the religious-affairs bureau for legal status without success; in July 2020 the Qiandongnan public security bureau formed a task force, investigated the meeting point, and detained four leaders, treating congregants’ offerings as fraud proceeds because the meeting point lacked state approval. The Kaili City Court sentenced Zhang Wenying to 12 years, Jiang Kui to 6 years, Xie Zhiqun to 5 years and He Se-qin to 3 years, and seized over 1.4 million yuan in offerings. The report includes video testimony from elderly congregants (Wan Shuping, Tang Yongfang, He Lianzhu, Xu Qiongzhen) stating that all offerings were voluntary and that Zhang Wenying never pressured anyone to give. — link
2021 — CPPC record #01040
In August 2021, the 中國政治犯關注 (CPPC) project published its case record for 張文英（女） (CPPC #01040): a Christian from Kaili City, Guizhou; elder and meeting-point head of the Kaili Seventh-day Adventist church; detained July 2020 on suspicion of fraud with three other clergy; arrest approved September 4, 2020; first-instance verdict August 14, 2021 — 12 years’ imprisonment for Zhang (term to July 2032), 3–6 years for the others; all four appealed; the second-instance court upheld the verdicts. Previously held at the Qiandongnan Kaili City Detention Center; the current serving prison is undocumented. The record includes images of the (name-redacted) official arrest-approval notice and congregants’ testimony screenshots. — link
Database record
CHRD Prisoners-of-Conscience database entry for 张文英 / Zhang Wenying (entered August 31, 2021): female, Kaili, Guizhou; last taken July 2020; charge: fraud; sentence: 12 years; release date July 2032; held at Qiandongnan Kaili City Detention Center. Cites the ChinaAid and CPPC sources above (a third cited link, cncivilrights.com, is no longer reachable). — CHRD database search
Archival notes
- The cncivilrights.com case page cited by the CHRD record (religious-belief/3024.html) returned a 404 when checked on October 10, 2026; the ChinaAid and CPPC records preserve the same case facts.
- The fraud charges are the charges brought by the authorities; the monitoring organizations reporting the case characterize it as targeting unregistered religious activity. Both framings are attributed in the profile above.
- An official judicial notice with redacted names, reproduced in the CPPC record’s images, corroborates the arrest-approval stage; no official source naming Zhang Wenying directly has been located.
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