Yang Cai was a member of the Church of Almighty God.
Address: No. 147, Sheep Farm, Mongolkure Municipality (昭苏县城镇羊场147号).Yang Cai. Member of the Church of Almighty God.
[Though not confirmed, the victim is assumed to be ethnically Han Chinese, as this is statistically very likely.]
Address: Female, Han. She resides at Mongolkure county-seat, Sheep Farm 147 (昭苏县城镇羊场147号).
current location
[Presumably in Ili, as this is where the trial was held.][Unclear, as the victim has been sentenced.]
chronology of detention(s)
She was officially detained on December 14, 2018, though the police had already conducted a raid of her home on November 11, a month earlier. The public security bureau applied for the official arrest warrant on January 8, 2019, with the procuratorate approving it on January 14. The indictment was filed on July 24, 2019.
On September 15, 2019, she was sentenced to 4 years in prison.Reported date of the most recent arrest: December 1, 2018.
Sentenced on December 14, 2018.
Testimony 2:
Officially etained on December 14, 2018, though the PSB had already conducted a raid in her home on November 11, which is potentially the actual arrest date. Arrest warrant was issed on January 8, 2019 by the Mongolkure PSB and by the Mongolkure Procuratorate on January 14. The prosecution brought the charges forward on July 24, 2019, and hearings commenced on September 12 the same year.
On September 15, 2019, sentenced to 4 years in prison (to be released on December 13, 2022).
suspected and/or official reason(s) for detention
Sentenced for "organizing and using heterodox groups to undermine law enforcement".
The procuratorate accused Yang of joining the Mongolkure branch of the Church in 2013 and of keeping religious materials used by the branch in her home (a total of 123 books and 37 compact discs, as well as an MP4 player and some memory cards). She used the aliases "Xiaohe" and "Jiejing" (小河、洁静).
Yang was also accused of writing reports to Bitter Winter that "twisted Xinjiang's stability policy and smeared the government". In one instance in 2018, the defendant Wang Xiuyun provided Yang with information about a Hui imam being sent to a re-education camp, as well as over 300 villagers being arrested at the "Second Commune" (二公社). Yang then reportedly wrote the article and gave it to Zhao Xiuhui, who sent it to higher Church authorities.
Yang served as the leader of the Mongolkure branch since the end of 2017, organizing gatherings and collecting donations. In her testimony, Yang said that she used her property at the No. 3 Alley, Happiness Street (幸福街三巷) in Mongolkure for Church gatherings in 2013-2014. She said that one of her neighbors was a relative of the Hui imam (Ma Yusu), and that she had heard from Wang Xiuyun that he had been sentenced to 7 years in prison, presumably for praying at a mosque. Yang also said that an ethnic-minority (non-Han) person had once come to her house to buy tobacco and alcohol, and told her that he had been sent to a re-education camp in 2017 for "playing around on WeChat" and that over 300 people from his village were also detained.
In court, she admitted to being guilty.Belonging to the Church of Almighty God, which has been designated by the CCP as an "evil cult". As a result, charged with breaching Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code.
Testimony 2: The procuratorate accused Yang of joining the Mongolkure branch of the Church in 2013 and of keeping religious material used by the branch in her home (a total of 123 books and 37 CD's, as well as an MP4 player and some memory cards). She used the aliases Xiaohe and Jiejing (小河、洁静). Yang was also accused of writing reports to Bitter Winter that "twisted Xinjiang's stability policy and smeared the government". In one instance in 2018, defendant Wang Xiuyun provided Yang with information about a Hui imam being sent to a re-education camp, as well as over 300 villagers arrested in the "Second Commune" (二公社). Yang then reportedly wrote the article and gave it to Zhao Xiuhui who sent it to higher Church authorities. Yang served as the leader of the Mongolkure branch since the end of 2017, organizing gatherings and collecting donations. In her testimony, Yang said she used her property at Alley 3, Happiness Street (幸福街三巷) in Mongolkure for Church gatherings in 2013-2014. She said one of her neighbors was a relative of the Hui imam named Ma Yusu and that she had heard from Wang Xiuyun that he had been sentenced to 7 years in prison, presumably for praying in a mosque. Yang also said that an ethnic minority person had once come to her house to buy tobacco and alcohol, and he said he had been sent to a re-education camp in 2017 for "playing around with Wechat", and that over 300 people from his village were also detained. In court, she admitted to being guilty.
last reported status
Sentenced.Presumably serving a 4-year prison sentence.
how testifier(s) learned of victim's situation
The court verdict is an official document from the Xinjiang judicial system. [It is also very likely that this verdict was the basis for the HRWF database entry, and as such the two cannot be seen as independent sources.][Most likely through contacts in the region, or through official court documents.]
Testimony 2: this is an official document from the Xinjiang court system.
