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The Special Rapporteur brought the following reports to t he attention of the
Government:
Zeng Guangbo , 36 years old, a Chinese house church leader from Nanyang
city, Henan province was arrested on 1 March 2004 for the second time that
year while trying to pass the Inner-Mongolia border to Russia for a house
church ministry there. According to an eyewitness, Zeng was taken away by
Nanyang Public Security Bureau after he was detained at the border with
Russia.
Pastor Cai Zhuohua, 32 years old, a house church leader ministering at six
house churches in Beijing was allegedly arrested by three officers believed
to be from the Department of State Security on 11 September 2004 after
attending a Bible study session that morning. On 27 September Cai’s wife,
Xiao Yunfei, and her brother, Xiao Gaowen, and sister-in-law, Hu Jinyun,
were also arrested in Hengshan county, Hunan province. All four arrested
were reportedly being held at Qinghe Detention Center, Haidian District,
Beijing.
On 6 August 2004, more than 100 house church leaders were allegedly
arrested in Tongxu County, Kaifeng City, Henan Province. The group was
beginning a two week retreat when more than 200 military police, Public
Security Bureau and other officers surrounded the venue. No arrest warrants
or official identification papers were shown during the arrest. Among those
arrested were the leaders Zhang Wanshun of Sanmenxia City, Mr. Zhang
Tianyun of Nanyang City and Mr. Yu Guoying of Tongxu County. The
raided meeting of the 100 house church leaders was held at the home of Ms.
Xiang Zi, the wife of one of the retreat organizers. She was arrested along
with their three children, aged between eight and eleven years. The retreat
was sponsored by the non-denominational house church network, Henan
House Church.
On 6 August 2004, Liu Fenggang, Dr. Xu Yonghai and Zhang Shengqi were
reportedly sentenced to terms of imprisonment of three years, two years and
one year respectively by the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou City
in Zhejiang Province. The three were convicted under Article 111 of the
Chinese Criminal Law. The crime they were to have committed was
"illegally soliciting and providing national intelligence to overseas
organizations". They were alleged to have committed the crime by
providing public court information about the trial of a house church
Christian, Ms Li Baozhi, to an overseas magazine.
On 6 August 2004, eight underground Roman Catholic priests and two
underground Roman Catholic seminarians were arrested in Sujiazhuang
Village in Quyang County, Hebei Province, during a religious retreat. Nine
of the ten arrested belonged to the Baoding Diocese. Amongst those
detained were Huo Junlong, the administrator of the Baoding Diocese in
Hebei, Zhang Zhenquian of Baoding and Huang of Sujiazhuang.