Article 300: CCP’s Secret Weapon of Religious Persecution
A study of 200 court decisions published in the scholarly Journal of CESNUR demonstrates that living a normal religious life in a banned group is enough to go to jail in China.
Xie Jiao Organizations
Xie jiao indicates the religious movements prohibited in China.
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