He Seqin, female, is a native of Kaili City, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (hereinafter referred to as Qiandongnan Prefecture), Guizhou Province. She is a Christian and a clergy member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kaili City, Guizhou Province, serving as one of the leaders of the church’s congregation.
Since the establishment of the Kaili Seventh-day Adventist Church meeting point in Guizhou Province around 2000, due to her active and enthusiastic service in various matters at the meeting point, she quickly became a backbone of the church’s evangelistic ministry and a leader in related ministry work, earning the praise of fellow believers and fellow ministers; However, for over 20 years, the congregation has operated as an unofficial house church and has refused to recognize or accept the “Three-Self Church” management model strictly controlled by the authorities. As a result, although the congregation submitted an application for legal recognition to the Guizhou Provincial Bureau of Religious Affairs long ago, it has never been approved; In July 2020, the number of believers at the meeting point surged dramatically, and the number of meeting locations expanded from one to three. The authorities in Qiandongnan Prefecture established a task force to conduct a comprehensive investigation of all meeting sites. He and four other clergy members, including church elders, were summoned and taken away by the police in Kaili City, Qiandongnan Prefecture. They were subsequently placed under criminal detention on suspicion of “fraud” and have been out of contact ever since; On September 4, 2020, the four individuals were formally arrested by the Kaili City Procuratorate on the same charges. They were accused of the fact that, since the “Application for Legal Status of the Church Meeting Site” submitted by their church had not been approved by the state, and that all offerings contributed by the congregation constituted fraud, thereby rendering all worship and ministry activities within the church illegal; On August 14, 2021, the cases of the four were heard in a consolidated trial at the Kaili City Court of Qiandongnan Prefecture, and they were ultimately sentenced in secret to prison terms ranging from 12 to 3 years for “fraud”; Among them, He Seqin was sentenced to three years in prison, with her sentence set to expire in July 2023; additionally, over 1.4 million yuan in church offerings were ordered to be seized, with the court stating that the funds would be “returned to the victims in accordance with the law by the Kaili Municipal Public Security Bureau”; She appealed the verdict. Reportedly, the Qiandongnan Prefecture Intermediate People’s Court appears unwilling to hold a public hearing on her appeal and has shown no interest in new evidence submitted by her defense attorneys; the second-instance trial is currently pending.
He was previously detained at the Kaili City Detention Center in Qiandongnan Prefecture (Guizhou Province/Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture/Kaili City/Yongle Road, Postal Code: 556099).
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