Possible labour camp detentions of Chinese Christian group members reported

BBC Monitoring, Sep. 3, 2002
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Text of report by staff reporter entitled: ” Members of Protestant Sect Sent to Labour Camp”] by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post (Business Post supplement) on 3 September

Three members of an underground Protestant group have been sentenced to re-education through labour for allegedly organizing training classes for Christians, a Hong Kong Christian source said yesterday.

The three men were identified as Chen Ren, Wu Sisheng and Wang Fei – all core members of a group known as the Shouters in Fujian’s Quanzhou city, the source said. Police raided the training class on 2 June and arrested 31 members.

The trio was sentenced on 15 July on the charge of illegal assembly, the source said. Chen and Wu were sentenced to three years and two years respectively. Wang was sentenced to one year.

The source said efforts were under way to find out what had happened to the other people who had been arrested.

Under labour re-education, police may send suspects to penal facilities without going through a court of law.

News of the latest crackdown could not be confirmed independently with Fujian’s police yesterday.

The Christian source suggested the arrests and incarceration might be related to the smuggling of Bibles by the group.

Beijing has branded the Shouter group a cult. However, members of the group dispute the accusation.

Overseas Christians generally see the Shouters as a unique Christian group, but do not count them as a cult.

Publication date: 2002-09-03

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