China on Monday jailed the leader of an unofficial Protestant church for nine years for 'incitement to subvert state power.'
China on Monday sentenced a prominent pastor who operated outside the Communist Party-recognized Protestant organization to nine years in prison. BEIJING, CHINA -- China on Monday jailed the leader of an unofficial Protestant church for nine years for "incitement to subvert state power."
China's officially atheist government is wary of any organized movements outside its own control, including religious ones. Chengdu's official court system website said Wang had been convicted in an open trial by a court in the city, where Early Rain Covenant Church had been based.
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