Pastor John Cao | China On March 5, 2017, police arrested Cao San-Qiang (John Cao), a Chinese pastor known for his work among Myanmar’s poor. Authorities charged Pastor Cao with “organizing illegal crossings of national borders” and, one year later, sentenced him to...
Gao Zhisheng | China Gao Zhisheng is a Christian human rights lawyer who has spoken up in the defence of other Christians and minority groups in China. Because of his work, he has had his legal practice shut down, and has faced arrest, torture, and long stretches of...
Cheng Hongpeng | China Chinese Christian Cheng Hongpeng was sentenced to three years in prison after Chinese officials raided a choir practice on 25 June 2014. As the believers practiced hymns at a factory owned by a church member, about 50 uniformed and plainclothes...
Write to Government Officials on behalf of the following prisoners in China: Yang Zhaocun, Wang Lulu, Cheng Yajie, Liu Yan and Zheng Lan, and Gao Zhisheng On April 18, 2017 a court in Changji, Xinjiang, sentenced Christians Yang Zhaocun and Wang Lulu to five years in...
Zhao Weiliang | China Chinese Christian Zhao Weiliang was sentenced to four years in prison after Chinese officials raided a choir practice on 25 June. As the believers practiced hymns at a factory owned by a church member, about 50 uniformed and plainclothes...
