Update: Three Christians released from detention in Shaanxi

Three house church leaders that were arrested in Taochuan village, Shaanxi province on June 14 for "illegal religious activities" (click here for more details) have been released, according to a June 27 report from ChinaAid. Xu Fenying was released on June 19 and Liu Caili and Huang Shumin were released on June 24. The three have filed an administrative lawsuit against the Luonan County Public Security Bureau of Shaanxi Province on the grounds that the authorities had no legal basis to confiscate their literature or subject them to fines and detention.

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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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