A court in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo on Tuesday handed down a 10-year jail term to former Hong Kong bookseller and Swedish national Gui Minhai for “illegally providing intelligence overseas.”Read More →
Brother Zhang Wenbo tells Bitter Winter how he was suspended on a rope, beaten with a steel tube, and burned with cigarettes. His only crime? Preaching a banned religion.Read More →
Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have detained dissident Xu Zhiyong — who had been on the run for seven weeks — using facial recognition technology and big data analysis, RFA has learned.Read More →
It is learned that so far more than 40 CAG Christians have suffered the CCP’s arrest and persecution after return to China. Among them, one was brutally tortured to the point of disability; one was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment; one was held in indoctrination center and unaccounted for; many went missing after return to China, and their whereabouts are still unknown. But here we only expose ten cases. Considering the safety of those Christians and their family members in China, we use pseudonym in these cases. Read More →
A state-sanctioned Chinese priest who was released on December 9, 2019, after being jailed for a year and two months, is now ousted by the government and driven out of his church.Read More →
To convert a Christian and forced her to sign four statements of renouncing her faith, the CCP isolated her and subjected her to forceful brainwashing and conversion for more than 200 days, and made her take psychotropic medication, which caused severe physical and mental trauma to her.Read More →
To extract information about the church and his personal data, the captain of the local National Security Brigade Cheng Fei used cigarette butts to burn the 20-year-old christian’s index finger, nipples and genitals, poured four pots of boiling water on his body, and even went as far as to pour boiling water on his genitals. He was later assessed as having suffered moderate burns by the hospital.Read More →
In May of 2019, the couple was arrested by the CCP police and subjected to cruel torture and punishment because of their belief in Almighty God. Liu’s two ribs got broken outright and he is still unable to work to this day. Read More →
Chinese police have launched a nationwide operation detaining at least eight people and questioning others, following a Dec. 13 meeting of liberal-minded activists and lawyers in the southeastern province of Fujian.Read More →
During the Christian Zhang Meijuan‘s custody, she was subjected to mistreatment including having to take cold showers for prolonged periods of time, which led her to develop a persistent cough, and deteriorated rapidly into advanced lung cancer, which caused her terrible agony and her death.Read More →
A court in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Monday handed down a nine-year jail term to Wang Yi, the Protestant pastor of the Early Rain Covenant Church. Wang, who founded the church, was detained by police in Sichuan’sRead More →
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues using high-resolution security cameras to monitor, follow, and arrest Christians, illegally detains, and harshly sentences them. In December 2019, three Christians from The Church of Almighty God (CAG) were sentenced to imprisonment as long as seven to eight years.Read More →
In July 2018, Christian Liu Jun was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party for his faith. In April 2019, disregarding his serious condition, the CCP once again arrested and detained him, causing a rapid decline in his health. Due to the delay in receiving treatment, Liu Jun passed away on August 10 of the same year at just 21 years of age.Read More →
When she was 24 years old in 2013, she was arrested by the CCP and sentenced to 3 years and 6 months because of her faith in God. In September 2019, she received another sentence of 12 years’ imprisonment on the same charge and is still in prison as of now.Read More →
As in other areas of China, the persecution of this Christian new religious movement in the eastern province of Shandong has intensified considerably this year.Read More →
Liu Changfen, female, born in 1968, of Zibo City, Shandong Province, is a Christian of The Church of Almighty God (CAG). She was a middle-level leader of the Church when arrested, and then in October of 2019, she was sentencedRead More →
Dai Ling’en, male, born in 1987, of Zhumadian City in Henan Province, is a Christian of The Church of Almighty God (CAG). In July of 2019, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)Read More →
A labor rights worker, a volunteer and an intern were reported incommunicado in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Thursday, while mainland Chinese activists who took part in the Hong Kong protests were sent for “drug rehabilitation,” RFA has learned.Read More →
Ouyang Qiuping, female, born in 1989, is a resident of Yining City in Xinjiang. Hu Wenlan, female, born in 1966, is a resident of Kashgar Prefecture in Xinjiang. Zhang Xue, female, born in 1990, is a resident of Yining CityRead More →
To force an elderly Christian to betray church information, the CCP abused him with corporal punishment for months, who was left with sequelae such as sciatica nerve pain and rheumatoid arthritis.Read More →
CAG Christian Li Fang in Zhejiang Province was arrested and jailed for nothing more than her belief in Almighty God. Because she refused to sign the “three statements” while serving her sentence in prison, she was subjected to forced indoctrination and maltreatment for up to 10 months, which caused severe physical and psychological harm to her.Read More →
