China Sentences Five Church Leaders

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Five members of an unregistered Chinese Protestant congregation have been sentenced to two years in a labor camp following a police raid on their church, a monitoring group said Wednesday.

The report comes less than a week after five leaders of the same church in the northern province of Shanxi were sentenced to prison terms of up to seven years on charges including illegal assembly, the toughest punishments against unofficial church leaders in more than three years.

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Posted December 2, 2009 at 7:35 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. julia wrote:

Guess Obama’s human rights comments fell on deaf ears.

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