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 Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject: Pastor in China Convicted for Printing, Distributing Bibles |
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Protestant Pastor in China Convicted for Printing, Distributing Bibles
By Philip P. Pan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, November 9, 2005; Page A22
BEIJING, Nov. 8 -- A prominent pastor in Beijing's underground Protestant church was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for illegally printing and distributing Bibles and other religious books, in a case that has attracted attention from Christian groups in the United States and elsewhere.
The Beijing People's Intermediate Court handed down the sentence immediately after it convicted Cai Zhuohua, 34, of conducting "illegal business practices," said his attorney, Zhang Xingshui. Two co-defendants were also convicted and sentenced to prison, he said.
Two men read a Bible outside a government-sanctioned church in Beijing. Only state-controlled churches are allowed to publish a set number of Bibles. (By Elizabeth Dalziel -- Associated Press)
The sentencing came less than two weeks before President Bush is scheduled to visit China. U.S. diplomats and human rights activists said that the Chinese government may have decided not to release a political prisoner as a symbolic gesture, as it has done in advance of other visits by U.S. presidents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110800607.html |
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