Over the past two years, 🇨🇳 authorities have targeted house churches with charges like “illegal business activity” or cult-related offenses. Now, seeking to add “inciting subversion” signals an escalation in the crackdown on religious belief.
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🚨 #EarlyRain Covenant Church leader #LiYingqiang has been in pre-trial detention for nearly six months.
Once again, 🇨🇳 authorities are treating #ReligiousFreedom as "inciting subversion."
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🚨 A detention center in Sichuan has denied #EarlyRain Covenant Church preacher #DaiZhichao access to legal counsel since Jan. 2026. He remains detained on “inciting subversion” charges solely for practicing his faith.
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🔴 Update: Four #EarlyRain church members remain detained. #LiYingqiang & #DaiZhichao remain at Deyang City Detention Center, their families received written arrest notices. #YeFenghua & #JiaXuewei have been transferred to #RSDL. All face charges of "inciting subversion."
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Police in Liangshan, Sichuan have put nonprofit leader #SongHaibing — a theology student at #EarlyRain Covenant Church — into administrative detention, seizing his work phone and computer. This follows multiple church member detentions since Jan. 6.
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