A Hunan Christian Was Detained by Police

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At 3:00pm of June 18^th, 2002, led by Fuying Wang, the village security officer, Guoqin Wu (male, 36-year old), the team leader of Internal Security Protection Team of Longshan County, Hunan Province, together with some police from the suburban police station of the county capital, broke into the house of Shaoqun Zhang (female, 32-year-old). Without showing any legal documents, they ransacked the house. Having found nothing, they took Shaoqun Zhang to the Public Security Department of Longshan County for interrogation about her religion faith.

On June 19^th, some police went to Shaoqun Zhang’s mother’s house, searching for evidence of her religious activities. But, still nothing was found.

On June 20^th, the Public Security Department of Longshan County announced the conviction about Shaoqun Zhang: “illegal believing in God”. Then she was taken to the suburban police station of the county capital for 15-day detention. Sister Zhang was released on July 5^th after paying a fine of 300 RMB (about $37).