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An evangelical church leader imprisoned in Sichuan province, China, on charges of fraud, insists he is innocent and has refused to accept the prosecution’s offer to release him if he would just plead guilty, China Aid reports.
Hao Ming, a leader with Deyang Qingcaodi Reformed Church who was imprisoned under charges of “fraud” after his house church refused to join China’s state-controlled body that regulates Protestant churches, has refused to confess his “crimes” and accept the charges in exchange for his release.
Elder Hao Ming refused to make a deal with authorities to confess to false charges or dismiss his lawyers in exchange for release.
A Christian rights group is calling for the release of a church elder who was forcibly detained by police officers in front of his 6-year-old daughter at his home in Anhui province, central China, on what it says are trumped-up charges of "fraud."
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