• 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
    • OP-EDS
    • FEATURED
    • TESTIMONIES
  • 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 / News China

Member of the Shouters Detained in Yantai, Shandong

05/23/2018Bitter Winter |

Source: Direct Reports from China
Date: May 21, 2018

Bitter Winter has learned about the arrest of a member of the Shouters – Christians in the tradition of Chinese preachers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee that have been long targeted by the Chinese Government. After being on the list of wanted persons for two years because of his belief, Zhang Guangming (pseudonym, male, 56 years old) from the city of Yantai in Shandong Province, was arrested on December 13, 2017. His family has not been allowed to see him since.

According to Zhang’s wife, when she came home from work on the evening of Zhang’s arrest, she found that the house was in a mess, a computer was gone, and her notebook was damaged and left open. On the CCTV footage recorded by the community’s security office, she saw that at around 5 p.m., Zhang was about to drive his car away when five police officers in plain clothes got out of a black car and forced him back home. Later, they took him away.

After asking around, the woman learned that the police had been monitoring her husband for a long time. He was detained in a police station of Yantai Public Security Bureau Laishan Branch and sent to the Fushan Detention Center in Yantai the following day.

When Zhang’s wife and her son went to the detention center to visit him, the prison refused their request, telling them that no one was allowed to see him. Till now, Zhang’s family members have never seen him since his arrest. According to unconfirmed information, as of early May, Zhang was still detained in the Fushan Detention Center in Yantai.

Zhang’s wife, heartbroken, with tears running down her face, said, “In China, murder, robbery, and fraud are all lighter crimes than believing in God. We Christians do nothing wrong, we are not anti-communists or anti-socialists, but they condemn us at will and define us (the Shouters) as a cult, this is a frame-up! We have tried to hire a lawyer, but no one dared to take this case for fear of being implicated. Due to the stress, I started losing some of my memory, I constantly worry that the door is not locked up. I need to check it many times at night, so I can’t sleep well. I am also worried because my husband is too old to bear the suffering…. All I can do is – pray to the Lord, may the Lord lead him and show mercy to him.”

Zhang Guangming’s elder brother, who was a church leader of the Shouters, was arrested in April 2014 when he was preaching the gospel in the city of Binzhou. Zhang escaped the arrest since he was preaching in another town, but was put on the national wanted list and was living in hiding since then. On December 3, 2017, Zhang Guangming and his wife visited their son who lived in another town and was arrested after some days when he came home.

Tagged With: Christian Faith in China, Shouters

Related articles

  • Harbin: Christian Music School Teachers Awaits Trial

    Harbin: Christian Music School Teachers Awaits Trial

  • Our Lady of Naju: Catholic New Religious Movement Followers Harassed in Hong Kong

    Our Lady of Naju: Catholic New Religious Movement Followers Harassed in Hong Kong

  • Bride Trafficking: China and Pakistan, Partners in Crime?

    Bride Trafficking: China and Pakistan, Partners in Crime?

  • Christian from Wenzhou Prosecuted in Sichuan

    Christian from Wenzhou Prosecuted in Sichuan

Keep Reading

  • Two Sentenced for Attending a Christian Conference in Malaysia
    Two Sentenced for Attending a Christian Conference in Malaysia

    One year of jail is the penalty for a pastor and a co-worker from Shanxi who went to an event organized by famous evangelist Tang Chongrong

  • Church of the Rock: Wife of Detained Pastor Speaks Out
    Church of the Rock: Wife of Detained Pastor Speaks Out

    Hao Ying claims that the authorities refuse to schedule an appeal trial for her husband, Pastor Geng Zejun.

  • David Lin: China Promises to Free in 2030 American Pastor Detained Since 2006
    David Lin: China Promises to Free in 2030 American Pastor Detained Since 2006

    His life imprisonment sentence has been reduced after American pressures, but eight further years in jail may be too much for his frail health.

  • Henan Preacher Arrested for Purchasing Christian Books Online
    Henan Preacher Arrested for Purchasing Christian Books Online

    Chen Lijun was detained in August. His wife reports he is still in jail, and his family is in desperate conditions.

Primary Sidebar

Support Bitter Winter

Learn More

Follow us

Newsletter

Most Read

  • Pro-Chinese Propaganda by The World Muslim Communities Council: Uyghurs Strike Back by Gulfiye Y
  • Zhanargul Zhumatai: “Help Me, I Just Want to Leave China” by Ruth Ingram
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 1. The Aesthetic Mind by Massimo Introvigne
  • Stricter Rules on Private Tutoring Protect Ideology Rather than Parents by Wang Zhipeng
  • Japan Religious Donations Law. 4. The Return of Brainwashing by Massimo Introvigne
  • Hong Kong: Christian Scholar Peng Manyuan Released but Not Rehabilitated by Gladys Kwok
  • The Weaponization of the CCP’s “Zero COVID” Against Tibet by Marco Respinti
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 3. Art as Communication by Massimo Introvigne
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 4. Art and Illustration by Massimo Introvigne
  • L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 5. Professionals vs. Amateurs by Massimo Introvigne

CHINA PERSECUTION MAP -SEARCH NEWS BY REGION

clickable geographical map of china, with regions

Footer

Instant Exclusive News
Instant Exclusive News

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

Follow us

LINKS

orlir-logo hrwf-logo cesnur-logo

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