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		<title>Did Chinese State Security Agents Assassinate Zhang Hongbao?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Zhang Hongbao, the exiled leader of a Chinese Qigong Zhong Gong movement, was killed in a traffic accident on July 31 in Arizona’s number 106 highway very close to the Grand Canyon. ]]></description>
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		<title>No jail for man accused of battery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restraining orders issued
PASADENA - Hong Bao Zhang smiled as his attorney, Mark Geragos, gave him the thumbs-up after a judge announced that Zhang would not go to jail, serve probation or pay restitution to his former housekeeper.
Zhang, 52, of Pasadena, had pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery on his former housekeeper, Nan Fang He, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exiled Chinese spiritual leader pleads no contest to misdemeanor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PASADENA, Calif. - The founder of an outlawed Chinese spiritual movement pleaded no contest to a charge of hitting his former housekeeper, avoiding deportation or jail time.
Hongbao Zhang, 52, exiled founder of the Zhong Gong movement, entered the plea Tuesday to a misdemeanor count of battery, said defense attorney Mark Geragos.
He agreed to pay a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exiled leader admits battery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PASADENA &#8212; The exiled leader of a Chinese spiritual movement whose disciples have numbered in the millions pleaded no contest Friday to a misdemeanor charge of battering a housekeeper at his Pasadena home.
Hongbao Zhang is the founder and &#8220;master&#8217; of Zhong Gong, a Chinese spiritual movement that had a reported 38 million adherents in 1990.
Zhang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese guru Zhang sues opponents</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/5649/chinese-guru-zhang-sues-opponents</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Charges of grand theft, fraud, extortion are among those alleged
PASADENA &#8212; The dispute between Chinese spiritual guru Hong Bao Zhang, the housekeeper he is accused of assaulting and a group of prominent U.S.-based Chinese dissidents has reached the local courts as Zhang and his supporters filed another round of civil lawsuits.
The complaints include accusations including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Sect Leader Faces California Trial for Assault</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PASADENA (Reuters) - An exiled Chinese sect leader who aspires to someday return to his country and rule it will be tried on charges that he assaulted a housekeeper in his Pasadena, California home, a judge ruled on Monday.
After a four-day preliminary hearing, Hong Bao Zhang, 49, was ordered Monday afternoon to stand trial on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese guru&#8217;s hearing begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Spiritual leader accused of assault
PASADENA &#8212; A Chinese spiritual guru who reportedly once had 38 million followers says the criminal charges against him are false and the result of a continuing campaign of persecution by the communist Chinese government.
Hong Bao Zhang, 49, was in Pasadena Superior Court on Wednesday for his preliminary hearing, where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zhang preliminary hearing begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PASADENA &#8212; A Chinese spiritual guru accused of punching and kicking his housekeeper and slamming her head against a sofa heard her tearful testimony about the ordeal during a preliminary hearing that began Tuesday.
Nan Fang He, 49, cried as she described the extensive beating she allegedly received at the hands of Hong Bao Zhang, 49, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit added against Zhang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2003 20:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experts say suits may hinder democracy
Pasadena Star-News, Aug. 1, 2003
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/
By Marshall Allen, Staff Writer
PASADENA &#8212; Chinese dissidents who formerly followed the founder of the Zhong Gong spiritual movement have filed another lawsuit against him, intensifying a conflict that may be detrimental to the democracy movement in China, experts say.
The lawsuit is the latest in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing date set for Chinese dissident charged with attacking Pasadena housekeeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press, July 22, 2003
http://www.modbee.com/
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The exiled leader of an outlawed Chinese spiritual movement appeared in court Tuesday for the scheduling of a preliminary hearing date in his kidnapping and assault case.
Court spokesman Kyle Christopherson said Superior Court Judge Terry Smerling scheduled an Aug. 19 hearing for Hongbao Zhang.
Zhang, 49, is charged [...]]]></description>
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