Enforced Disappearances · Full chronicle and history

According to a post by X user @LeiYang8964, Li Qing is suspected to have been rushed to Pennsylvania overnight on October 14, 2026. The information currently comes from a single source, and the specific background and subsequent developments remain unclear.

On September 30, a netizen posted that "Xiao Wu" (Feng Rui, who runs the WeChat public account "Chiapas East Wind TV"), an independent media figure who has long focused on labor rights, was suspected of having gone missing. His social media accounts have stopped updating since September 14, and his 100,000-character long article "2025 Labor Rights Incidents" was deleted.

U.S. Congress bipartisan lawmakers introduce a resolution, urging the Trump administration to prioritize the immediate unconditional release of Uyghur doctor Guli Xian Abbas, who has been forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government for eight years.

On August 12, 2026, the international organization Chinese Human Rights Defenders issued a statement pointing out that it had been a full year since Hubei rights defender Yin Xu'an, who is seriously ill, was intercepted while being taken to Beijing for medical treatment and forcibly disappeared, and urged the Chinese authorities to immediately disclose his whereabouts and health condition and release him unconditionally.

On August 3, 2026, Li Ru, a resident of Loudi, Hunan, was taken away by officers from the Lianpengshan Police Station while sightseeing in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao. He was later handed over to stability maintenance personnel from his household registration location, and subsequently lost contact; his personal safety remains unknown.

According to a post by X account Luo Xiang, the contributor who reported on the Three Gorges Dam collapse has gone missing. The whistleblower's final submission included an 'internal use' employee information registration form, which detailed personal political affiliation, family background, overseas connections, contact methods, internet usage habits, assets, and requirements for fingerprint and voiceprint collection.

Liang Wenjie, Deputy Chairperson and spokesperson of the Mainland Affairs Council, said at a press conference that in July there were reports of 10 Taiwanese missing in the mainland, including a group of four traveling together that is currently being detained for unknown reasons.

Four people from a Taiwanese tour group traveling to China have gone missing under unclear circumstances, raising concerns about personal safety within China.

On June 16, 2026, human rights activist Zhou Fengsuo publicly disclosed that Wang Yiyan, a PhD student at the University of Colorado in the US who researches internet freedom, had been secretly arrested by the Chinese Communist Party and forcibly disappeared for two years after returning to China.

Wang Yiyan, a Chinese scholar based in the United States who has long studied China's internet firewall and anti-censorship tools, went missing for nearly two years after returning to China in the summer of 2024; on June 15, 2026, "Chinese Human Rights" issued a statement calling on the Chinese government to disclose his legal status and guarantee his personal safety.

Since March 19, 2026, Jeyens Reskhan, a Kazakh children's literature writer from Xinjiang and former chairman of the Hami Prefecture Writers Association, was taken away by police on suspicion of extremist thought and has since gone missing. His family has received no official notice and does not know his whereabouts.

On March 17, 2026, Wang Sanyuan, a 73-year-old pastor of Changchunli Christian Church in Jinan, Shandong, was taken away by the police. The authorities issued no notice of any kind, and his family has nowhere to turn to file a complaint. Observers outside China point out that this may be a settling of scores over his earlier involvement in the struggle to protect church property.

After Enxu lost contact, Wang Yuhang posted missing-person information on social media and reported to the police that Enxu was missing; more than ten days later, the police said that Enxu had not been unlawfully deprived of personal freedom.

Gaukas Wang (Wang Yiyan), a US-based Great Firewall and anti-censorship researcher, lost contact with the outside world after returning to China in the summer of 2024 and has been missing since July 2024. Chinese Human Rights issued a statement in June 2026 expressing concern.

Duan Weihong, who had been detained by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection system for six years, successively made public appearances in Nanjing and Fujian, gaining limited freedom.

Mi Chunlei was taken away by the local public security economic investigation department between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, and subsequently failed to perform his duties for a long period.

Uyghur retired doctor Abbas was forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government in Xinjiang and subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a secret trial.

Duan Weihong went missing from her Beijing office a few weeks after Sun Zhengcai was brought down, with her executives and assistants disappearing simultaneously, and was subsequently detained by the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Gui Minhai, a shareholder of Causeway Bay Books, went missing from his apartment in Pattaya, Thailand, which subsequently triggered the disappearances of multiple booksellers and a banned-books archive scandal.

On June 1, 2004, Jiang Yanyong and his wife Hua Zhongwei were taken away by the authorities while on their way to the hospital; Hua Zhongwei was released two weeks later, Jiang Yanyong was released on July 19, and the authorities denied the incident.

Hu Liren said that Shanghai Bell Alcatel engineer Zhao Jun and his wife Xu Meiqi, director of the laboratory department of Shanghai Huaihai Hospital, were arrested together with their children in 1999 for practicing Falun Gong, and the whole family went missing afterward; their parents waited for more than 20 years without seeing them return. He said that the then-director of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau and head of the Falun Gong task force was Wu Zhiming.