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Three
Jailed In China For Printing Bibles |
| WWW,
2005 (ARCHIVED) Three Christians in China
have been sentenced to imprisonment for
printing Bibles and other Christian writings
without government authorisation.
A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced a
Protestant minister, his wife and her
brother to prison terms of up to three years
for illegally printing Bibles and other
Christian publications, one of their lawyers
said.
The conviction of house church minister Cai
Zhuohua, 34, and his family by the Beijing
People's Intermediate Court came days before
U.S. President George W. Bush arrives for a
state visit.
In atheist China, printing of Bibles and
other religious publications need special
approval from the State Bureau of Religious
Affairs. Bibles cannot be openly bought at
bookshops in a country long criticized
overseas for intolerance of religion.
Cai, arrested in September last year, was
sentenced to three years in prison on
charges of "illegal business
practices," attorney Zhang Xingshui
said by telephone.
His 33-year-old wife, Xiao Yunfei, was given
a two-year prison sentence and her brother,
Xiao Gaowen, 37, an 18-month term, the
lawyer said. Both were convicted on similar
charges.
They were expected to appeal and have 10
days to do so.
Their families and the court could not
immediately be reached for comment.
A fourth defendant, Hu Jinyun, Xiao Gaowen's
wife, was exempted from criminal punishment
on charges of "secretly storing illegal
goods" because she made contributions
by informing against her sister-in-law, the
lawyer quoted the verdict as saying.
Rights activists say that while religious
freedom is enshrined in China's constitution
and the faithful are allowed to worship at
official churches, the government is
increasingly using legal excuses to crack
down on house churches and wayward religious
groups.
The prosecutor, in the bill of indictment,
accused the defendants of illegally printing
200,000 copies of the Bible which were found
in Cai's warehouse but the verdict did not
mention a figure.
In July, Hong Kong's Beijing-funded Ta Kung
Pao newspaper quoted Ye Xiaowen, director of
the State Bureau of Religious Affairs, as
saying Cai illegally printed 40 million
copies of the Bible and other Christian
publications.
Ye accused Cai of illegally selling over two
million copies of the Bible instead of
giving them away for free, the newspaper
said, adding that Ye insisted the case had
nothing to do with religious persecution.
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