Hohhot Christian Trial

Co-defendant evangelist Wang Honglan has not been sentenced yet but remains in custody.

In March, “Bitter Winter” reported about the arrest and prosecution of ten Christian believers from Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia. They were accused of illegal sales of Bibles, but the peculiarity of the case was that the Bibles had been legally published in Nanjing with the government’s authorization. The prosecutor’s argument was that sales of Bibles by an illegal house church not affiliated with the government-controlled Three-Self Church is a crime even if the Bibles are in themselves “legal.”

Read more at “Ban Yanchao Gets 5 Years for Distributing Bibles”

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