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UN Releases Formal Opinion on Church Historian’s Arbitrary Detention

Posted Apr 05 2005

 
Midland, Texas (CAA)-Feb. 7, 2005
Tortured House Church Leader Testifies for the First Time;
UN Releases Formal Opinion on Church Historian’s Arbitrary Detention

Thursday, February 10, 2005 at the National Press Club in Washington DC, a 34- year old member of an underground house church in China will recount her experience of torture, sexual abuse and arbitrary imprisonment by Chinese police. Ms. Liu Xianzhi, a member of the South China Church, escaped from China last month after serving six years in a labor camp making Christmas lights and rugs. In 2001, police arrested Ms. Liu and tortured her into falsely testifying that the pastor of the South China Church, Gong Shengliang, “raped” her. Ms. Liu stated that her experience in prison continues to haunt her, “When I hear dogs barking, loud knocking on the door, the sound of police sirens, or I see men who are not wearing shirts (like my interrogators), I have an overwhelming sense of fear.” She is one of 8903 members of the South China Church who police have arrested for their religious beliefs, including Pastor Gong, who is serving a life sentence in prison based on multiple confessions obtained through torture.

The Honorable Senator Sam Brownback, along with other Congressional leaders, will express their grave concern over religious persecution in China. Senator Brownback is Chairman of  the Helsinki Commission and serves on the Committee on Appropriations; the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; the Committee on Foreign Relations; and the Joint Economic Committee. Bob Fu, president of the China Aid Association and a former prisoner of religious conscience, will also release a formal opinion by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the case of a leading historian of the underground church, Mr. Yinan Zhang. Zhang was arrested September 26, 2003 and sentenced to two years of re-education through labor October 27, 2003 by an administrative tribunal in Henan Province. The government convicted him of attempting to subvert the national government” by misinterpreting statements culled from his personal prayer journals and Christian essays.

For more information, please contact 432-689-6985

Address for Thursday’s Press Conference:
Murrow Room, National Press Club
529 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20045

2 Responses to “UN Releases Formal Opinion on Church Historian’s Arbitrary Detention”

  1. soisaavaito Says:
    December 17th, 2007 at 2:49 pm

    I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:

  2. asdf Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    The only propaganda here is religious propaganda. Religion being merely an institution of lies, myths and superstition. Why do we tolerate religion? We shouldn’t. However religion has always been used to usurp nations, indigenious people from their rightful lands by supplanting their true racial identities with false ones, and geopolitical polarization. From Chinese (which is what they truly are) they are falsely led to believe that they are Christian Chinese and should support Western post-colonial agendas. From Chinese, they may become Muslim Chinese in support of Iran and Emirates sinister plans to dominate all of Asia turning each country into a muslim fanatical nation.

    This site is small fry compared to government (UK, US) sponsored propaganda sites like BBC and Epoch Times. The point of conflict is you guessed it. Religion. Their excuse, to assert the rights of foreign nationalities bent on usurping any nation (namely China) or one of its territories, and to deny the rightful heirs to the nation namely the Chinese people themselves proper (without the religious affix or should that be afflictions).

    The very basis of all religion has always been unproven myth, lies and metaphysical nonsense. Am I to take the words of these people on any current news event as the truth?
    From allegations of torture or imprisonment for demanding (yes DEMANDING) special rights and privileges not as an individual but as a body that originates outside that country in question. No I choose to believe that these people are filthy liars always with an ulterior sinister motive. Buddhism itself is also a foreign element not from China. Its origins lie in India. Islam (Uighur) originates from Iran, Mecca and all the Emirate countries that have been taken by such a deceitful ploy (the most recent success of these vermin can be seen in the declaration of indepence of Kosovo).

    “There is only true freedom. Freedom FROM religion.” Do not let these scum twist these words otherwise. Freedom from being influenced by these power hungry scum. Freedom from its dominion. Freedom from being misled by lies, myths, and con-man chicanery that is commonplace among their ilk. Often quoting from their garbage religious text which quotes real events mixed with their non-sensical generic rantings of all things they purport to understand. Why then do we have science if these religious figures have all the answers?

    Their second tactic involves labelling an “evil”. Communism is evil. Not it is not. It is an inefficient means to govern a nation, but so is a Democracy. They will then associate all things extremist to that system of government namely nationalism. Oh, but it’s okay if the Democratic nations do it under the synonymous word “pariotism”. And when they attack another country under the guise of liberating that country, what they are really doing is the old time practice of conquering yet another nation in order to fuel their plans for economic expansion, i.e., “making allies” against some “evil”.

    They control the media, and are an active participant in the dissemination of lies to further influence your neutral assumptions of things. They would like to control what you see, hear, or have an opinion on or against (or purport to since they would like you to view it from their point of view). I’m not talking about China FYI, although they do it as well, but this has only been reactive to the pro-aggresive actions taken by those violent against China and its sovereign right to rule its own country with NO obesiance to jewish-christian-catholic, islamic, buddhist charlatans. China for Chinese instead of China for Christians, Muslims, Buddhist (falungong ding dongs / nepal-mongoloid halfbreed tibetans as a race? lol). A nation with less liars. I can see no wrong in their motives.

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