ICC Note: The Chinese government continues to oppress their people for their Christian faith. Church leader Hu Shigen was recently sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for, according to the government, “damaging national security and harming social stability.” This is the second time Hu Shigen is sentenced to prison. He had previously served 20 years in prison for the now-abolished charge of counter-revolution and was released in 2008.

08/25/2016 China (Christian Today): Another innocent Christian is being deprived of his freedom for standing up for his faith in God.

Christian church leader Hu Shigen has been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment in China, as the communist country continues its crackdown against human rights activists.

According to a report from BBC News, Hu was convicted after a trial that lasted only a few hours. He was jailed for “damaging national security and harming social stability”—charges that the Christian church leader pleaded guilty to.

Aside from his imprisonment, Hu was also stripped of his political rights for five years.

Chinese state media described Hu as the “leader of an underground church” that was only supposedly pretending to be a religious body, but in reality, is an organization meant to draw attention to abuses being committed by the government in China.

The government-controlled press in China also reportedly quoted prosecutors who charged Hu as saying that the “ideology and behaviors” of the Christian church leader “seriously harmed the country and social stability.”

This is not the first time that Hu is being imprisoned in China. He had previously served 20 years in prison for the now-abolished charge of counter-revolution. He was released in 2008.

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