Underground Chinese Bishop Still Missing After ‘Illegal’ 9-Month Imprisonment

LifeSite News ^ | 2/23/22 | Michael Haynes

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Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu was arrested in May 2021, along with 23 priests and seminarians, and has not returned to his family since.

HENAN, China (LifeSiteNews) – An underground Chinese bishop has now been under arrest without being charged for nine months, in what has been described as an “illegal” continuation of arrest.

Chinese Catholics told AsiaNews February 21 that it has been nine months since Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu was arrested, but still he has not been charged with a crime or allowed to return to his family. “Today, February 21, it has been nine months since our bishop was detained in an unknown place, illegally,” the source told AsiaNews.

Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu of the Xinxiang Diocese, in Henan province, was arrested May 21, 2021 when 100 police officers and public security agents carried out a raid on a disused factory which had been used as a seminary for those who refused to join the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-approved church.

Ten priests and 13 seminarians were also arrested with the bishop. While the seminarians were later released and forbidden to continue their studies, the priests and Bishop Zhang were taken by the Chinese authorities for “political sessions” at “Legal Education Centers,” which include “brainwashing” in line with the CCP ideology.

The priests were also subsequently released, but Zhang was not.

According to AsiaNews, the official line from the CCP was that Zhang and the priests had been invited “for tea.” Zhang had only recently returned from hospital following an operation treating cancer, when he was taken by police.

AsiaNews noted that under Chinese law, any imprisonment longer than three months without charging the individual is illegal.

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His organs are in twelve different people by now.

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Check the DC jail. And remember. It’s not illegal when the government does it.