China Jails Protestant Pastor For 9 Years
December 30, 2019
4:58 pm
China on Monday jailed the leader of an unofficial Protestant church for nine years for “incitement to subvert state power”.
Pastor Wang Yi, whose Early Rain Covenant Church was the target of a government crackdown last year, was also found guilty of “illegal business operation” by a court in Chengdu, southwest China, according to an announcement on an official court website.
Wang was detained in December 2018 in a raid by authorities in which dozens of members of his “underground church” disappeared.
China’s officially atheist government is wary of any organised movements outside its own control, including religious ones.
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