Lawyer for China’s Zion Church seeks resettlement help while transiting through Taiwan
Wang says authorities pressured her firm to dissolve after it defended Zion Church, and she is weighing resettlement options abroad for her family.
- On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, Chinese lawyer Ruth Wang arrived in Taiwan seeking resettlement after authorities pressured her to dissolve VDoor Law Firm for representing the Beijing Zion Church.
- Authorities targeted the firm because it represented the Beijing Zion Church, an unregistered house church with over 5,000 members operating in over 40 cities across China.
- Wang reported that authorities revoked her mentor Zhang Kai's legal license and suspended other lawyers for six months; she fled after being summoned to meet officials while vacationing in Japan last month.
- While Wang remains in transit in Taiwan, local authorities noted the island lacks a formal refugee policy and has grown wary of security risks from China, complicating her asylum bid.
- ChinaAid founder Bob Fu noted the case demonstrates the "enormous pressure" facing lawyers defending persecuted Christians, while Wang explores resettlement in the U.S. or Canada for her family.
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AP Exclusive: Lawyer for China's Zion Church seeks resettlement help while transiting through Taiwan
A Chinese lawyer who defended an underground church in Beijing has fled to Taiwan and is seeking help for resettlement.
Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Xiahong, who defended the Zion Church and was subsequently suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities, jumped from a plane in Taiwan early yesterday morning (March 3) seeking asylum. She and her family have been granted humanitarian leave by the Taiwanese authorities and are awaiting resettlement in a third country. Wang Xiahong was formerly a partner at the Beijing-based Kaimen Law Firm. The fir…
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