ChinaAid: "Henan court rejects house church pastor’s final appeal against 12-year sentence"

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Henan court rejects house church pastor’s final appeal against 12-year sentence
Distributed by ChinaAid, September, 2014 ...

NANLE COUNTY, HENAN, CHINAA – China Aid learned today that Pastor Zhang Shaojie’s final appeal against his 12-year sentence for “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order” and a fabricated fraud charge was rejected by the Puyang Intermediate Court in China’s central Henan on Aug. 21.

Li Fangping, one of Zhang’s attorneys, confirmed that he received a phone call from Judge Ma, who presided over the case, saying that the original verdict was being upheld. Ma told Li on Aug. 21 that the second verdict had already been sent to Zhang ...

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