Copyright Restrictions

We hope that all people who care about religious freedom will visit the website of the Committee for the Investigation on Persecution of Religion in China (CIPRC). Many faithful Christians are taking life risk to collect documents for this website.  You can know the truth and resources of religious persecution in China from these detailed, factual, and firsthand documents. We do desire scholars, specialists, organizations, and news agencies from around the world to use these invaluable accounts freely.

However, We do not condone any infringement of our rights protected under the law of the United States. After the infringement of our documents by several well-respected human right organization, now we have to apply some restrictions to the use of these materials. 

All the news, pictures, and documents published on the website are owned by CIPRC pursuant to Title 17 of the United States Code.

             If any person or organization can show that they have quoted or used our resources in prominent positions of any of their works and cited the CIPRC and this website as the source of the material, we will be happy to allow the free use of the material on the website as long as they continue to cite the CIPRC website for any of the resources found on the website.

             If you are planning to use the material for an event or convention, or publish within a book or other similar medium, we now ask that you obtain our written permission before you use or publish any of the resources owned by the CIPRC in this website. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

The Committee for the Investigation of Persecution of Religion in China (CIPRC)

December 16, 2002