Monday, October 31, 2016

From @chinaaid : "Christian woman's trial to take place this month, court claims"

The China Aid Association is a non-profit Christian organization - based in Midland, Texas - with a mission to uncover and reveal the truth about religious persecution in China, focusing especially on the unofficial church. They do this, they explain in their website, by exposing the abuses, encouraging the abused and equipping the saints to advance the kingdom of God throughout China.

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Christian woman's trial to take place this month, court claims
Distributed by ChinaAid, September, 2016 ...

GUIYANG, GUIZHOU, CHINA – Charged with “illegal business operations,” a Christian woman, detained for more than a year, awaits trial after the court convened to discuss her hearing earlier last month.

In late July 2015, authorities took Zhang Xiuhong, an accountant who chaired Huoshi Church’s board, into custody for withdrawing church funds at her beauty shop. The local Procuratorate formally arrested her on Sept. 1, 2015. In March, the court initiated trial procedures, which culminated in a pretrial meeting last month. Zhang’s defense lawyers, Xiao Yunyang and Li Guisheng, attended the pretrial, but the defendant was not present ...

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