Gansu (China), SVM News, November 28, 2007: In China, a christian pastor was sentenced 18 months imprisonment for distributing tracts in Gansu province and a rector of a Catholic seminary and one of his seminarians arrested and jailed in Yujiang. 40 house church leaders also were detained in Henan.
Pastor Liu Huiwen (38) was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by Gansu Dongxiang Nationality Autonomous County People's Court on October 25, 2007 for Distribution of Christian Literature Among Muslims. The document released by the court on November 27.
Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service reports that Pastor Liu Huiwen was detained on April 28, 2007 after distributing flyers at a funeral and was arrested on May 31. He was charged against discriminating work and insulting people of ethnic minorities when he published and distributed a flyer called "A Letter to Our Muslim Friends."
Beijing Defence Attorney Li Dunyong, the defense counsel for Pastor Liu, argued that his public letter neither contain any discrimination or insults against people of ethnic minorities nor exceeded the boundary set for freedom of speech.
But the court rejected his arguments and said Pastor Liu's public letter arised indignation from the Muslims and some of them used curse words and threatened to physically assaulted him, so he fled from the scene. After that, the police officers arrived on being informed of this incident and took Liu Huiwen to the public security bureau. In the meantime, the police officers confiscated 153 copies of the public letter that they collected from the people in the local area and confiscated 9,000 copies of the public letter, 523 copies of the Bible, 1,745 discs and some tapes and propaganda photos and other objects from the room Liu rents.
Cout said Liu's conduct has violated the provisions set in Article 250 of "The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" and constitutes the crime of publishing works that discriminate against and insult people of ethnic minorities. And the court has sentenced him 18 months imprisonment as per Article 210 and Article 64.
In the southern province of Guangdong in Central China, a Roman Catholic priest, Father Zeng Zhongliang, rector of the Yujiang diocese seminary in Jiangxi and one of his seminarians, Wang Bin were arrested by the police on November 25. Both are being held in a prison in Yujiang.
Fathr Zeng had organised a meeting with the entire diocesan clergy at Fuzhou town, whose members are mostly affiliated with the underground Church. He acted on behalf of his local bishop Mgr Thomas Zeng Jingmu of 85-years of age who has been under house arrest.
The diocese of Yujang has about 15,000 underground Catholic believers and priests; Catholics that is who are not registered with the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and therefore not recognised by the government.
In another incident of christian persecution in China, a group of PSB officers raided China Gospel Fellowship (CGF) and detained 40 house church leaders while they were having a Bible class on November 18 at Peichang village of Fanhu town in Xiancheng county in Henan
"CGF is one of the largest house churches in China. All the detainees were the senior leaders of CGF and among them Pastor Shen Yiping, it's founder also included," Bob Fu of China Aid Association said.
Out of 40 detained leaders, 21 of them were released on November 24 and 19 are still being detained at the county detention center.
The family members of the 19 detainees were notified by the Police Department to send blankets and 360 yuan ($50) for 15 days' living expenses.
SVM News: http://salemvoice.org/svmnews280.html
Pastor Liu Huiwen (38) was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by Gansu Dongxiang Nationality Autonomous County People's Court on October 25, 2007 for Distribution of Christian Literature Among Muslims. The document released by the court on November 27.
Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service reports that Pastor Liu Huiwen was detained on April 28, 2007 after distributing flyers at a funeral and was arrested on May 31. He was charged against discriminating work and insulting people of ethnic minorities when he published and distributed a flyer called "A Letter to Our Muslim Friends."
Beijing Defence Attorney Li Dunyong, the defense counsel for Pastor Liu, argued that his public letter neither contain any discrimination or insults against people of ethnic minorities nor exceeded the boundary set for freedom of speech.
But the court rejected his arguments and said Pastor Liu's public letter arised indignation from the Muslims and some of them used curse words and threatened to physically assaulted him, so he fled from the scene. After that, the police officers arrived on being informed of this incident and took Liu Huiwen to the public security bureau. In the meantime, the police officers confiscated 153 copies of the public letter that they collected from the people in the local area and confiscated 9,000 copies of the public letter, 523 copies of the Bible, 1,745 discs and some tapes and propaganda photos and other objects from the room Liu rents.
Cout said Liu's conduct has violated the provisions set in Article 250 of "The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" and constitutes the crime of publishing works that discriminate against and insult people of ethnic minorities. And the court has sentenced him 18 months imprisonment as per Article 210 and Article 64.
In the southern province of Guangdong in Central China, a Roman Catholic priest, Father Zeng Zhongliang, rector of the Yujiang diocese seminary in Jiangxi and one of his seminarians, Wang Bin were arrested by the police on November 25. Both are being held in a prison in Yujiang.
Fathr Zeng had organised a meeting with the entire diocesan clergy at Fuzhou town, whose members are mostly affiliated with the underground Church. He acted on behalf of his local bishop Mgr Thomas Zeng Jingmu of 85-years of age who has been under house arrest.
The diocese of Yujang has about 15,000 underground Catholic believers and priests; Catholics that is who are not registered with the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and therefore not recognised by the government.
In another incident of christian persecution in China, a group of PSB officers raided China Gospel Fellowship (CGF) and detained 40 house church leaders while they were having a Bible class on November 18 at Peichang village of Fanhu town in Xiancheng county in Henan
"CGF is one of the largest house churches in China. All the detainees were the senior leaders of CGF and among them Pastor Shen Yiping, it's founder also included," Bob Fu of China Aid Association said.
Out of 40 detained leaders, 21 of them were released on November 24 and 19 are still being detained at the county detention center.
The family members of the 19 detainees were notified by the Police Department to send blankets and 360 yuan ($50) for 15 days' living expenses.
SVM News: http://salemvoice.org/svmnews280.html
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