{"id":2059,"date":"2014-07-09T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2014-07-09T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:11:29","slug":"chinese-christian-pastors-12-year-prison-term-a-miscarriage-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinese-christian-pastors-12-year-prison-term-a-miscarriage-of-justice","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Christian Pastor&#8217;s 12-Year Prison Term &#8216;A Miscarriage of Justice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">2014-07-08<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/church-07082014151723.html\/china-pastor1-july2014-305.gif\/image\" width=\"305\" height=\"263\" \/><br \/>\nChristian pastor Zhang Shaojie in detention in February 2014.<br \/>\nPhoto courtesy of lawyer Liu Weiguo.<br \/>\nAuthorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have handed a 12-year <!--more-->jail-term to a prominent Christian pastor for &#8220;fraud&#8221; and &#8220;gathering a crowd to disrupt public order,&#8221; sparking concerns that the government is broadening its campaign against large religious groups.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence handed down to Nanle county pastor Zhang Shaojie suggests the ruling Chinese Communist Party is becoming less and less tolerant of organized religion, even in its state-approved form, rights activists said.<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered Zhang, a former president of the government-sanctioned Protestant association and adviser to the county People&#8217;s Political Consultative Conference, to pay a fine of 100,000 yuan (U.S.$ 16,000).<\/p>\n<p>Zhang&#8217;s daughter Zhang Yunyun said the sentence was handed down last Friday, and that the family plans to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of the congregation had planned to go to the courtroom, but a lot of [them] were confined to their homes by plainclothes police,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/church-07082014151723.html\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014-07-08 Christian pastor Zhang Shaoji &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinese-christian-pastors-12-year-prison-term-a-miscarriage-of-justice\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,131],"tags":[571,573,1349,572],"views":1391,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}