Post by BobfromMichigan on Jan 6, 2002 16:57:51 GMT -5
From: "Tripp Henderssen" <advocate01@earthlink.net>
Subject: Bibles not welcomed
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002
China court indicts Hong Kong trader for imported Bibles
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A court in China's Fujian province has issued
an "evil cult" indictment to a Hong Kong businessman for transporting
Bibles into China and may hand him a death sentence, a Hong Kong rights
group said on Saturday.
The court in the city of Fu Qing said Hong Kong trader Li Guangqiang
had "used an evil cult to damage a law-based society", the Information
Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a statement.
Li Guangqiang in April and May 2000 took 33,000 bibles in two lots
into China's Fujian Province to supply an underground Christian group
called the Shouter's sect, the group said. He was arrested on his second
trip.
Li, 38, is a long term resident of Hong Kong. He was responding to a
request in October 2000 by a leader of the sect, Yu Zhudi, who travelled to
Hong Kong and said the group needed bibles.
On December 30, a Chinese court in Hubei's Jingmen city gave the
founders of the underground South China Church, Gong Shengliang and Li
Ying, a death sentence, calling their group an evil cult.
Because Li's indictment mentioned an "evil cult" he may be sentenced
to death, the rights group said.
The group said it called on the Hong Kong government to support Li
and demand that China specify the definition of "evil cult".
It said that although China had never made public how many such
groups there were, the rights group estimated at least 16 Christian
organisations had been listed that way.
+++++++++++
"Judaism is a Crime Syndicate masquerading as a religion" - M. Hoffman
Subject: Bibles not welcomed
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002
China court indicts Hong Kong trader for imported Bibles
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A court in China's Fujian province has issued
an "evil cult" indictment to a Hong Kong businessman for transporting
Bibles into China and may hand him a death sentence, a Hong Kong rights
group said on Saturday.
The court in the city of Fu Qing said Hong Kong trader Li Guangqiang
had "used an evil cult to damage a law-based society", the Information
Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a statement.
Li Guangqiang in April and May 2000 took 33,000 bibles in two lots
into China's Fujian Province to supply an underground Christian group
called the Shouter's sect, the group said. He was arrested on his second
trip.
Li, 38, is a long term resident of Hong Kong. He was responding to a
request in October 2000 by a leader of the sect, Yu Zhudi, who travelled to
Hong Kong and said the group needed bibles.
On December 30, a Chinese court in Hubei's Jingmen city gave the
founders of the underground South China Church, Gong Shengliang and Li
Ying, a death sentence, calling their group an evil cult.
Because Li's indictment mentioned an "evil cult" he may be sentenced
to death, the rights group said.
The group said it called on the Hong Kong government to support Li
and demand that China specify the definition of "evil cult".
It said that although China had never made public how many such
groups there were, the rights group estimated at least 16 Christian
organisations had been listed that way.
+++++++++++
"Judaism is a Crime Syndicate masquerading as a religion" - M. Hoffman