United Nations, Human Rights Council, 38th Session- Written Statement of the NGO CAP-LC on The Church of Almighty God

For runaway Church of Almighty God members, seeking medical care means being found by the state. Many are arrested in hospitals; others die of untreated illnesses.

Most of the detained have been monitored for days, and some elderly people were tortured to make them disclose information about fellow believers.

Countless members of this Christian new religious movement are blacklisted in China and are harassed and persecuted for years, pressured to renounce their faith.

Teenage members of The Church of Almighty God are given hefty sentences, tortured and indoctrinated, and deprived of visitation rights when in detention.