March 2025 – The China Corner by CSW

HUI CHRISTIAN PASTOR SENTENCED TO NINE MONTHS IN PRISON

2025-03-27

Hui Christian Pastor Ma Yan was sentenced to nine months in prison for ‘organising illegal gatherings’ by the Yinchuan Railway Transportation Court in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on 24 March. Ma was charged and tried on 10 February 2025 for organising a gathering of no more than ten Christians in Jinfeng District, Yinchuan, Ningxia, which was raided […]

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The Repression of FoRB in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in Northwestern China is one of the five ethnic minority autonomous regions in the country. In 1914, Ningxia was merged with Gansu Province, but was detached and became its own individual province in 1928. Later, in 1954, it was again administratively merged with Gansu until 1958 when it was separated