Update: Christian woman released in Zhejiang province


The church before the destruction
Photo from ChinaAid

According to a June 18 report from ChinaAid, a Christian woman sentenced in December 2006 to three and a half years in prison for protesting the government's destruction of a church building in Xiaoshan, Zhejiang province (click here for more information), was released on March 4. Shen Zhuke is the last of eight Christians detained following the demolition to be released.

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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

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Communist state

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

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