From @chinaaid : "Xinjiang woman receives three-year sentence for holding Bible study"

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Xinjiang woman receives three-year sentence for holding Bible study
Distributed by ChinaAid, January, 2017 ...

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ILI KAZAKH AUTONOMOUS PREFECTURE, XINJIANG, CHINA – A local court in China’s western Xinjiang sentenced a Christian woman to three years in prison on Friday for holding a Bible study.

Ma Huichao, who was taken into police custody along with four other Christians when officials claimed their Bible study met without government approval, stood trial in mid-November for “gathering a crowd to disturb public order." ...

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