China Indicts HK(Hong Kong) Man For Importing Thousands of Bibles

Taipei Times ^ | January 6, 2002 | AP Hong Kong Staff

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China indicts HK man for importing thousands of bibles

AP, HONG KONG

A court in China has indicted a Hong Kong businessman who allegedly imported large quantities of bibles to an underground Christian group in China, a human rights organization said yesterday.

The court of Fuqing in the southeastern province of Fujian said Li Guangqiang, 38, from Hong Kong, had "used a cult to undermine the enforcement of the law" by taking bibles to the Shouters Sect, said the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.

Li allegedly took 33,080 bibles to the group, which has over 500,000 members in China, in two trips in April and May. Two members of the group, Yu Zhudi and Lin Xifu, who made the request for the bibles, were also indicted, the rights group said.

Saying Li might face the death penalty, the rights group called on the Hong Kong government to offer assistance to Li and demand the Chinese government define its definition of the cult charges.

Phone calls to the Fuqing city prosecutor went unanswered yesterday. Calls to the city's court and detention center weren't answered.

Last month, a Chinese court sentenced to death Gong Shengliang, the leader of banned Christian group South China Church on the same charge.

Chinese Christian churches not under the state controlled non-denominational church are prosecuted, along with the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual sect and other religious groups.

The rights group estimated that at least 16 Christian organizations are banned.

The Shouters Sect was banned in 1995 as an "aberrant religious organization," according to the human rights group Amnesty International. The Shouters Sect has a charismatic style of worship, which involves shouting out prayers and singing.

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Pray for the people under this evil Anti-God opppression of the Communist Chinese Government.

And pray for America.

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[kellynla]

BUMP...Time for W to start turning the screws on the Chicoms. Semper Fi

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W did all he could to force through permanent most favored nations status for China.

[BobWNY]

This news came just after the ease of export of high speed computers by Bush....I bet he feels like an idiot. He should revoke his decision in regards to China.

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Bibles

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Snow Bunny]

America is going to regreat BIG time making China a favored nation. I prayed so hard it would not happen and it has. It concerns me a lot.

[droberts]

... Fuqing ...

Er, OK.

[Arator]

Yea, life is good under the ChiComs. Who needs freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and all that other rubbish. Trade of cheap goods (go long as they contain no political of religious content) is all that matters.

But a wise man once said that "Man shall not live by bread alone...".

Why do the "free" traders think we can?

[MadIvan]

Go to Hong Kong. You'll find that even Falun Gong is allowed to practice freely in HK. The legacy of Empire does have its benefits. Then see how free trade works for them. Maybe, just maybe, you'll get educated.

Though I doubt it.

Ivan

[Arator]

Phone calls to the Fuqing city prosecutor went unanswered yesterday.

"Fuqing city prosecutor" is right. LOL.

[Arator]

Go to Hong Kong. Then see how free trade works for them.

If I go, I will see, hear, and read exactly what the ChiComs want me to see, hear, and read.

Material wealth is meaningless when the soul is caged.

That you regard ChiCom ruled Hong Kong as some sort of social ideal tells me all I need to know about you. You are, aparently, a materialist to the core. You measure everything by the less than mightly Eurodollar. The false god GDP is the only god you care to "worship", to the extent you worship anything. Your politics teeters precariously on this foundational error. As such, it takes little force to knock the entire creaking edifice down.

[Arator]

less than mightly Eurodollar

Make that "less than almighty Eurodollar".

[Mark17]

China Indicts HK(Hong Kong) Man For Importing Thousands of Bibles

I wonder if he was planning to shoot those commies with his double barreled killer Bibles? I wonder what those commies fear?

[jjbrouwer]

The court of Fuqing sounds an interesting place to visit. Must be above board if it is a legal institution.

[MadIvan]

If I go, I will see, hear, and read exactly what the ChiComs want me to see, hear, and read.

You have no idea how utterly idiotic you are being. I just told you that Falun Gong, which is banned everywhere else, is active and raising money in Hong Kong. Hell, they were asking money from me on street corners.

In terms of people complaining, again, you prove you know absolutely nothing about Hong Kong, its people or what it is like to be there. Of course if you did, you'd have to give up your most cherished beliefs and even question Comrade Pat. And we can't have that amount of freedom of thought entering your head, now can we?

Ivan

[klee]

The court of Fuqing sounds an interesting place to visit. Must be above board if it is a legal institution

We must have the same sick minds to see the perverseness in the name 'fuqing'.

[Kiwigal]

I think Ivan misses the point. The article is about a Hong-Kong businessman importing bibles to CHINA and religious persecution in that country, not about freedom of religious expression in Hong-Kong itself. One trip to Hong-Kong does not an expert make, in any event.