Wang Yi had led the Early Rain Covenant Church and was arrested a year ago as part of an ongoing crackdown on all unauthorized religious groups in the country
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.China on Monday sentenced a prominent pastor who operated outside the Communist Party-recognized Protestant organization to nine years in prison.
“It is actually about the freedom of publication and there has been no social harm,” Si said in a phone interview. More widely, the party has demolished places of worship, barred Tibetan children from Buddhist religious studies and incarcerated more than a million members of Islamic ethnic minorities in what are termed “re-education centres.”
At least two members of Early Rain fled to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy that China claims as its own territory.
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