Update: Christians sentenced to "re-education through labour"

Three Christians who were arrested in Taikang county, Henan province on December 3 (click here for more), have been sentenced to one year of "re-education through labour" for "illegal proselytizing" and attending an "illegal gathering," according to a January 6 report from ChinaAid. Twenty of the other Christians arrested in the raid were sentenced to 15 days of administrative detention and fined 1,000 Yuan (approximately $175 CAD).

For more information on the persecution of Christians in China, click here.

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China Profile

Location
Asia

Population
1,336,718,015 (July 2011 est.)

Ethnicity (%)
Han Chinese (91.5), Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities (8.5)

Religion (%)
Non-religious (47.6), Ethnic Religions (21.8), Buddhism (21.4), Christianity (7.3), Islam (2.0)

Leader
President Hu Jintao

Government type
Communist state

Legal system
Based on civil law system; derived from Soviet and continental civil code legal principles

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