Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Religion or Belief: Christian – Protestant
Date of Detainment: November/30/2023
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Zhou Songlin is detained for his religious activity.
In November 2023, Chinese authorities arrested Zhou Songlin, a pastor of the unregistered Hefei’s Ganquan Church.
In February 2026, the Shushan District Court sentenced him to 4 years, 6 months' imprisonment, fined him 30,000 yuan, and ordered the confiscation of 366,000 yuan in private property for alleged "fraud," a charge weaponized by the government to target unregistered house churches.