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China court indicts Hong Kong trader for imported Bibles
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| 5 JAN 02
| Rueters
Posted on 01/05/2002 5:36:59 PM PST by tomakaze
China court indicts Hong Kong trader for imported Bibles
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A court in China's Fujian province has issued an "evil cult" indictment to a Hong Kong businessman for transporting Bibles into China and may hand him a death sentence, a Hong Kong rights group said on Saturday.
The court in the city of Fu Qing said Hong Kong trader Li Guangqiang had "used an evil cult to damage a law-based society", the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a statement.
Li Guangqiang in April and May 2000 took 33,000 bibles in two lots into China's Fujian Province to supply an underground Christian group called the Shouter's sect, the group said. He was arrested on his second trip.
Li, 38, is a long term resident of Hong Kong. He was responding to a request in October 2000 by a leader of the sect, Yu Zhudi, who travelled to Hong Kong and said the group needed bibles.
On December 30, a Chinese court in Hubei's Jingmen city gave the founders of the underground South China Church, Gong Shengliang and Li Ying, a death sentence, calling their group an evil cult.
Because Li's indictment mentioned an "evil cult" he may be sentenced to death, the rights group said.
The group said it called on the Hong Kong government to support Li and demand that China specify the definition of "evil cult".
It said that although China had never made public how many such groups there were, the rights group estimated at least 16 Christian organisations had been listed that way.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christianpersecutio
geee... aren't new trading partners and bestest buds just the ginchiest?
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posted on
01/05/2002 5:36:59 PM PST
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tomakaze
To: tomakaze
Dang... I duped. this thread aint lng for the world. my bad.
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01/05/2002 5:38:10 PM PST
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tomakaze
To: tomakaze; *Christian persecutio
bump
To: tomakaze
looks like there'll be no Fu Qing bibles.
To: Governor StrangeReno
RE: looks like there'll be no Fu Qing bibles.
Thats it. I'm taking up a collectiong to hire a midget to do rimshots around here.
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01/05/2002 6:48:36 PM PST
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tomakaze
To: tomakaze
I am sure that the secular extremists would agree with the Chinese government on this one.
To: tomakaze
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