cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/50573702
Hubei authorities should release activist Yin Dengzhen from Wuhan Women’s Prison and ensure she receives adequate medical treatment. Yin is serving a 4.5-year prison sentence and is suffering from lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes), which was diagnosed in December 2024. Her health has deteriorated due to a denial of adequate medical care in detention.
“The ongoing incarceration and treatment of Yin Dengzhen is a blatant violation of Chinese and international law and may amount to torture,” said Angeli Datt, research and advocacy coordinator at the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD). “Authorities are denying her adequate medical care with despicable disregard for her life.”
Beijing police administratively detained Yin on January 16, 2025 as she tried to file a petition with the Supreme People’s Court. Police alleged Yin had “disrupted the order of state organs” and held her for seven days. Shiyan City police then seized Yin from her Beijing apartment on January 26 and brought her to Shiyan, her Hubei Province hometown, and criminally detained her that day.
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While held in pre-trial detention between January and July 2025 at Shiyan City Detention Center, Yin’s health deteriorated to the point where she was no longer able to walk or eat on her own. She was admitted twice to Shiyan People’s Hospital and hospitalized from July to September 2025. At that time, Yin weighed approximately 80lbs, could not get out of bed, and had to be fed through a nasogastric tube.
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