A Chinese court sentenced U.S. pastor David Lin to life in prison in 2009, but he's been released ahead of China's ...

David Lin, 68, was detained in China in 2006 after helping to construct an unapproved church building. He was later sentenced to life in prison for contract fraud, a charge he denied. Lin was one ...

U.S.-Chinese pastor David Lin was released from Beijing on Sunday after 18 years in prison for reasons the American ...

David Lin, 68, was detained after he entered China in 2006, later convicted of contract fraud and sentenced to life in prison, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom ...

China has freed David Lin, a U.S. pastor who had been in jail since 2006, the State Department said Sunday, marking the release of a man who Washington claims was wrongfully detained. U.S ...

The state department announced that Pastor David Lin, a U.S. citizen wrongfully detained in a Chinese prison for nearly two ...

China has released American citizen David Lin, a pastor who has been held in the country for almost two decades, the US State Department confirmed on Sunday. A spokesperson for the State ...

China on Sunday released U.S. pastor David Lin, who has been in jail since 2006 in what the State Department has deemed was a wrongful detainment. The now 68-year-old pastor was formally arrested ...

David Lin, 68, from Orange County in California has “returned to the United States and now gets to see his family for the first time in nearly 20 years”, a department spokesperson said.

David Lin, 68, had been detained since 2006, and had received a life sentence for contract fraud from the Chinese government. “We welcome David Lin’s release from prison in the People’s ...