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Revelations of Torture Spur Wife of Chinese Lawyer to Action
January 19 MPBS24/7 (A CDN REPORT) – Geng He, wife of missing Christian lawyer Gao Zhisheng, is demanding answers from the Chinese government following new revelations of torture of her husband. “This is the first time that I heard about the details,” Geng, now living in the United States, told Radio Free Asia last week. “My husband did not tell me – would not tell me – how he was tortured.” |
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Chinese Christians Blocked from Attending Lausanne Congress
Summary: DUBLIN, October 15 MPBS24/7 REPORT From CDN – As organizers prepared for the opening of the Third Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelization tomorrow in Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese police threatened or detained some 200 delegates who had hoped to attend. House church groups in China had raised significant funds to pay the expenses of their chosen delegates, a source told Compass. When house church member Abraham Liu Guan and four other delegates attempted to leave China via Beijing airport on Sunday (Oct. 10), authorities refused to allow them through customs, reported the Chinese-language Ming Pao News. Officials detained one delegate and confiscated the passports of the other four until Oct. 25, the closing date of the conference. China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security had notified border control staff that the participation of Chinese Christians in the conference threatened state security and ordered them not to allow delegates to leave, Liu told U.S.-based National Public Radio. The China Aid Association reported that on Wednesday (Oct. 13), approximately 1,000 police officers were stationed at Beijing International Airport to restrain an estimated 100 house church members who planned to leave for the Congress via Beijing. China accused the Lausanne committee of not issuing an invitation to China’s state-controlled church, but according to the Ming Pao report, delegates were required to sign a document expressing their commitment to evangelism, which members of the state-controlled churches could not do because of regulations such as an upper limit on the number of people in each church, state certification for preachers, and the confinement of preaching to designated churches in designated areas. |
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Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Missing Again
Two weeks after release, Christian vanishes while in police custody. DUBLIN, May 7 MPBS24/7 REPORT From(CDN) — Gao Zhisheng, a Christian human rights lawyer released by Chinese officials on April 6 and missing again since April 20, is “definitely in the hands of Chinese security forces,” Bob Fu of the China Aid Association (CAA) told Compass. |
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China Moves Uyghur Christian Prisoner, Allows Family Visit
Court rejects appeal of 15-year sentence for Alimjan Yimit. DUBLIN, April 29 MPBS24/7 REPORT From(CDN) — Authorities in Xinjiang Province recently moved Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit from a prison in Kashgar to a prison in the provincial capital Urumqi and allowed the first visit from family members since his arrest in January 2008, sources told Compass. |
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Chinese Pastor Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
Harsh punishment for house church leader based on apparently far-fetched charge. LOS ANGELES, December 8 MPBS24/7 REPORT From(CDN) — Chinese authorities have quietly sentenced Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit (Alimujiang Yimiti in Chinese) to 15 years in prison on the apparently contrived charge of “providing state secrets to overseas organizations,” according to China Aid Association (CAA). |
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