• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • ABOUT CHINA
    • NEWS
    • TESTIMONIES
    • OP-EDS
    • FEATURED
    • GLOSSARY
    • CHINA PERSECUTION MAP
  • FROM THE WORLD
    • NEWS GLOBAL
    • TESTIMONIES GLOBAL
    • OP-EDS GLOBAL
    • FEATURED GLOBAL
  • INTERVIEWS
  • DOCUMENTS AND TRANSLATIONS
    • DOCUMENTS
    • THE TAI JI MEN CASE
    • TRANSLATIONS
    • EVENTS
  • ABOUT
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
  • TOPICS

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

three friends of winter
Home / China / Testimonies China

At Least 15 Believers Arrested Within a Week

09/17/2018Lin Yijiang |

shenzhen
Chinese authorities continue persecutions against The Church of Almighty God; this time, in Guangdong Province.

The Chinese Communist Party has recently launched large-scale operations to arrest and persecute members of The Church of Almighty God. It is the most widely targeted xie jiao in China. Association in any form with one is punishable with three to seven years or more in prison under Article 300 of Chinese Criminal Code.

Bitter Winter has reported from Liaoning, where more than 700 believers were arrested in June, as well as Jiangsu with at least as 350 arrests.

We now have reports from Guangdong, where at least 15 believers were arrested within a week. All names used in the article are pseudonyms.

On August 11, four plain-clothes police officers barged into the home of Mei Fang in Heyuan city. The officers raided her place and confiscated her religious texts. Ms. Mei was hosting another fellow believer, Liu Yu, at this time. Both of them were arrested after the raid.

Later, the police also stationed more plain-clothed officers near Ms. Mei’s home, as they believed Ms. Liu to be in contact with three other believers. Soon, one of them was arrested while other two remain unaccounted for.

On the same day, the police also raided a congregation site in the city. While the precise number of believers arrested remains unclear, one woman named Xiao Yue was amongst those detained.

On August 17, arrests and raids continued in Shenzhen city. Police officers showed up at Liang Zhi’s home. His place was raided, and later, he was taken away for interrogation. The police asked him about the various places he used to visit. He was, however, let go within 24 hours.

When he returned to his home, he found that his bicycle had been bugged. He saw two tracking devices, hidden inside the handlebars. The lights on them were still blinking. To avoid being monitored as well as lead the police to other believers unintentionally, Mr. Liang decided to go on the run and keep off the radar.

The police were, however, able to arrest seven others in the city on that day. Those arrested include five women picked up from a congregation site as well as a couple that was apprehended at another location.

In addition to these arrests, homes of several other believers were reportedly raided as well. 

Reported by Lin Yijiang

 

 

Image of Shen Zhen, Guangdong (picture from internet)

 

Tagged With: The Church of Almighty God

Lin Yijiang profile picture
Lin Yijiang

Uses a pseudonym for security reasons.

Related articles

  • Church of Almighty God Refugees: Why They Should Be Granted Asylum

    Church of Almighty God Refugees: Why They Should Be Granted Asylum

  • Church of Almighty God Refugees: A Letter to the President of South Korea

    Church of Almighty God Refugees: A Letter to the President of South Korea

  • Church of Almighty God: False Demonstrations in Korea—Again

    Church of Almighty God: False Demonstrations in Korea—Again

  • Chiesa di Dio Onnipotente – Più di 10.000 membri arrestati nel 2022

    Chiesa di Dio Onnipotente – Più di 10.000 membri arrestati nel 2022

Keep Reading

  • Church of Almighty God Refugee Cases Discussed in New Book
    Church of Almighty God Refugee Cases Discussed in New Book

    Massimo Introvigne and Rosita Šorytė explore while some asylum applications are still rejected, and what can be done about it.

  • Church of Almighty God Refugees: Favorable Decisions by Italian Supreme Court and Court of Rome
    Church of Almighty God Refugees: Favorable Decisions by Italian Supreme Court and Court of Rome

    Judges recognized that the CAG is severely persecuted in China, and members are harassed by the CCP even abroad.

  • More than 10,000 Church of Almighty God Members Were Arrested in 2022
    More than 10,000 Church of Almighty God Members Were Arrested in 2022

    More than 3,000 were tortured and at least 14 were killed. These are the shocking figures of the church’s own yearly report on persecution. And they are believable.

  • Heavier Sentences for Church of Almighty God Members
    Heavier Sentences for Church of Almighty God Members

    As part of the campaign aimed at eradicating the movement, jail terms have been substantially increased.

Primary Sidebar

Support Bitter Winter

Learn More

Follow us

Newsletter

Most Read

  • Wenzhou, Parents Asked to Sign a “Kindergarten Family Commitment Not to Believe in Religion” by He Yuyan
  • Empowering the Next Generation of Uyghurs to Challenge China’s Genocide by Marco Respinti
  • China’s New Crackdown Targets “Self-Media” by Zhou Kexin
  • Thailand and Pakistan: No Friends of Uyghur Refugees by Marco Respinti
  • Russia, Hare Krishnas Accused of Planning Attacks Against Military Conscription Bureaus by Massimo Introvigne
  • Why “Cults” (and “Brainwashing”) Do Not Exist by Massimo Introvigne
  • A Uyghur View: Putin Got His Arrest Warrant—Xi Jinping Should Be Next by Kok Bayraq

CHINA PERSECUTION MAP -SEARCH NEWS BY REGION

clickable geographical map of china, with regions

Footer

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief

MASSIMO INTROVIGNE

Director-in-Charge

MARCO RESPINTI

ADDRESS

CESNUR

Via Confienza 19,

10121 Turin, Italy,

Phone: 39-011-541950

E-MAIL

We welcome submission of unpublished contributions, news, and photographs. Each submission implies the authorization for us to edit and publish texts and photographs. We reserve the right to decide which submissions are suitable for publication. Please, write to INFO@BITTERWINTER.ORG Thank you.

Newsletter

LINKS

orlir-logo hrwf-logo cesnur-logo

Copyright © 2023 · Bitter Winter · PRIVACY POLICY· COOKIE POLICY