E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.1 Page 20 83. 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.

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