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Yang Hua is a pastor and founding member of the largest house church in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province in China.Yang has been in prison since December for resisting government attempts to seize church property.
Yang’s
Huoshi Church, which means “living stone,” was targeted by authorities
after the church purchased a larger venue to serve as a meeting space in
2014. Government pressure increased in October 2015, when authorities
issued notices claiming the locations used by Huoshi were not
officially-approved, and subsequently assessed a fine of 12,960 Yuan
(U.S. $2,030) per day.
On Dec. 9,
when Yang tried to stop officials from destroying a hard drive
belonging to the church, he was taken into custody and served two
consecutive five-day administrative detention sentences for “obstruction
of justice” and “gathering a crowd to disturb social order.”
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