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Zhang sentenced in China

November 18, 2003

VOM News, 11/3/2003: Mr. Zhang Yi-nan, a Chinese house-church writer and historian, has been sentenced to two years of laojiao—“re-education through labor”—by the Re-education Through Labor Commission of Ping Ding Shan County in Henan Province. He was allowed to see his wife at the gate of the Lu Shan County...Read more

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