Ezra Jin Mingri is released after 266 days in Chinese detention and arrives in Los Angeles to reunite with his family.His release follows a meeting in Beijing in which U.S. President Donald Trump raised Jin’s case with Chinese leader Xi Jinping less than two months earlier, and he had been held alongside 17 other church leaders in a major crackdown.Advocacy groups including the
Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation and the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China confirmed his release, circulated photos with his daughter
Grace Jin Drexel, and said the case highlights Beijing’s tightening control over religious practice.