国际特赦发表锡安教会牧师王琳之妻苏紫明专访：被控“诈骗”与“非法经营”，仍被羁押Amnesty International publishes interview with Su Ziming, wife of detained Zion Church pastor Wang Lin: charged with 'fraud' and 'illegal business operations', still detained

国际特赦组织澳大利亚分会 2026 年 10 月 8 日发表题为《中国对家庭教会的打压：对被拘中国牧师王琳之妻苏紫明的专访》的文章。文章开头确认：2025 年 10 月 9 日，王琳牧师在针对锡安教会的大抓捕中被警方带走；锡安教会是“家庭教会”，即独立于官方批准的宗教体系、缺乏正式注册的新教教会。王琳被捕后的数月里，妻子苏紫明与年幼的儿子、女儿持续被监视和骚扰，出境受限、长期与家人分离；如今苏紫明与孩子住在美国，丈夫仍被羁押在中国。[1]

关于丈夫如何成为信仰领袖，苏紫明说：王琳成为牧师前是一名律师，2006 年成为基督徒后辞去法律工作、进入神学院，在美国神学深造数年；2017 年底夫妇回国，王琳成为北京锡安教会的信仰领袖，“他最大的喜乐就是和别人在一起”。2018 年当局关闭锡安教会聚会场所后，许多成员在骚扰中被迫离开北京（包括被迫搬迁、失业威胁），会众四散全国；疫情期间信徒靠线上聚会与查经维系，教会逐渐变成跨省网络，而非单一堂会。[1]

关于当局的手段，苏紫明说，在针对锡安教会的案件中，当局指控教会领袖收取“诈骗所得”，把信徒的奉献算作非法获取的资金；教会培训与神学课程则被定性为从事“非法经营活动”——她的丈夫王琳两项罪名都被指控。她认为，这反映了近年来一个更广泛的趋势：一些教会领袖像许多人权捍卫者一样被控“煽动颠覆”等重罪，但当局也越来越多地用“诈骗”“非法经营”这类罪名，去打击机构与社群本身的正常运作与管理。她说，当局的目标不是真的查财务问题，而是针对信仰群体本身，“最终目标是压垮教会、让它消失”。[1]

关于家属受到的影响，苏紫明说，丈夫被捕前一家已长期生活在巨大压力下：被迫反复搬家、无故被赶走、买房签约受阻，“走到哪里都像有人盯着”；孩子因父亲的工作在国内无法正常上学。2025 年 11 月她试图带两个孩子离境，在上海机场被拦下：机场安检把她带到一旁的问询室，称她处于出境禁令之下，直到凌晨 4 点左右才让她抄下限制令的细节，孩子们目睹了母亲与一屋子警察对峙的全过程。经持续的国际关注与施压，当局最终解除出境禁令，一家得以离开中国。她说，即便在美国安全了，创伤仍在，孩子常问：“妈妈，你会不会也被抓走？”[1]

苏紫明还解释了家属决定公开的原因：多年来一些教会案件很少受到公众关注，而据说当时被拘的人曾遭受虐待；他们认为，如果案件获得国际知名度，当局在对待在押者时往往会更谨慎。这不仅对锡安教会的家属重要，对其他因信仰受逼迫的家庭教会和信徒也重要。国际特赦在文末呼吁“与苏紫明和她的家人站在一起”，签署请愿，要求中国当局释放王琳、停止针对信仰领袖及其家庭与社群。[1]

交叉印证：《基督邮报》10 月 12 日报道，锡安教会自 2025 年 10 月遭突袭以来，18 名成员随后被正式逮捕，其中 8 名牧师和同工被关押在南方广西地区的北海市，被控“诈骗”与“非法经营”——与苏紫明所述王琳的两项罪名一致。2025 年 10 月 9 日至 10 日，警方在多地针对锡安教会抓捕，带走主任牧师金明日等多名牧师同工；金明日被羁押 266 天后于 2026 年 7 月 3 日获释赴美，10 月 9 日获颁兰托斯人权奖（本站 10 月 9 日已记录）。[2][3]

核实说明：本记录记录的是“国际特赦组织发表苏紫明专访”这一可核实的公开机构行为。专访中的个人经历陈述（机场被拦细节、监视骚扰经过等）为苏紫明本人的自述，本站未独立核实；王琳仍被羁押、被控罪名的状态，有《基督邮报》的独立报道相互印证。本站将继续跟进王琳案的司法进展与 8 名在押同工的情况。[1][2]

Amnesty International Australia published on October 8, 2026 an interview titled 'China's crackdown on house churches: An interview with Su Ziming, wife of detained Chinese pastor Wang Lin'. It confirms that on October 9, 2025, Pastor Wang Lin was taken away by police in the crackdown on Zion Church — a 'house church', i.e. a Protestant church operating independently of the state-approved religious system and lacking official registration. In the months after Wang's arrest, his wife Su Ziming and their young son and daughter endured constant surveillance and harassment, restrictions on leaving China and prolonged family separation; today Su and the children live in the United States while her husband remains detained in China. [1]

On how her husband became a faith leader, Su says Wang was a lawyer before becoming a pastor; after becoming a Christian in 2006 he left the legal profession, entered seminary and spent several years in theological studies in the US; at the end of 2017 the couple returned to China and Wang became a faith leader at Beijing Zion Church — 'his greatest joy came from being with others'. After authorities shut Zion's venue in 2018, many members were driven out of Beijing through harassment (including coerced evictions and job threats) and the congregation scattered across the country; during the pandemic believers stayed connected through online services and the church gradually became a cross-province network rather than a single congregation. [1]

On the authorities' tactics, Su says that in the case against Zion Church, authorities accused church leaders of receiving 'fraudulent proceeds', treating believers' tithes and offerings as unlawfully obtained funds, while church training programmes and seminary courses were deemed 'illegal business activities' — her husband Wang Lin has been charged on both counts. She sees a broader recent trend: while some church leaders, like many human rights defenders, are prosecuted on national-security charges, authorities have increasingly used charges such as 'fraud' and 'illegal business operations' to target the normal operations and management of the institutions and communities themselves. The goal, she says, was never really about finances but about the faith communities themselves — 'to crush the church and make it disappear'. [1]

On the impact on family members, Su says the family had long lived under immense pressure even before her husband's arrest: repeated forced moves, evictions for no reason, blocked home purchases — 'wherever we went, it seemed like someone was watching' — and the children unable to get an education in China because of their father's work. In November 2025 she tried to leave with her two children and was stopped after entering Shanghai airport: security took her to an interview room, said she was under an exit ban, and refused to show legal documents until around 4am, when she copied down the restriction details, with the children watching their mother confront a room full of police officers. After sustained international attention and pressure, the authorities lifted the exit ban and the family left China. Even safe in the US, she says, the trauma remains: the children often ask, 'What if you get arrested too?' [1]

Su also explains why the families went public: other church cases over the years received little public attention, with reports that those detained then were abused; the families believe that when a case becomes internationally known, authorities often become more cautious in how they treat those in custody. Amnesty closes with a call to 'stand with Su and her family' and sign a petition urging the Chinese authorities to release Wang Lin and stop targeting faith leaders, their families and communities. [1]

Cross-check: the Christian Post reported on October 12 that since the October 2025 raids on Zion, 18 members were later formally arrested, with eight pastors and co-workers held in Beihai city in the southern Guangxi region on 'fraud' and 'illegal business operations' charges — matching the two charges Su says Wang faces. On October 9-10, 2025, police carried out arrests targeting Beijing Zion Church across several cities, taking Senior Pastor Jin Mingri and other pastors and co-workers; Jin was released on July 3, 2026 after 266 days in detention and arrived in the US, receiving the Lantos Human Rights Prize on October 9 (recorded by this site on October 9). [2][3]

Verification note: this record documents the verifiable public act — Amnesty International publishing the Su Ziming interview. The personal accounts in the interview (the airport stop, the surveillance and harassment) are Su's own testimony and have not been independently verified by this site; Wang's continued detention and the charges against him are corroborated by the Christian Post's independent reporting. This site will continue to follow the judicial progress of Wang Lin's case and the situation of the eight detained co-workers. [1][2]