ICC Note:

Zhang Kai was imprisoned for seven months for representing Christian churches in China. In a recent letter, he recounts how over the last ten years he has been, “beaten by police, hunted down, threatened by hooligans, imprisoned illegally, summoned by the government, monitored and detained…” The lawyer spoke of how the wife of a fellow human rights lawyer encouraged them while they were in prison, and how she kept witnessing about Jesus to his family. Zhang was rounded up with about 300 human rights lawyers in a massive crackdown on churches and lawyers who defended them. The lawyers recounts in his letter, “We would have died much earlier without the protection of God.”

11/17/2016 China (China Aid) – A Chinese Christian lawyer who was imprisoned for 7 months for opposing a Communist Party campaign to remove crosses from churches has shared how he was sustained in part by the prayers and encouragement of a woman similarly persecuted for her faith.

In a letter, Zhang Kai, who was released in March, shared how Wang Qiaoling, the spouse of award-winning human rights defender Li Heping, continuously showed support to both him and her husband while the government persecuted them for representing groups targeted by the government.

“Human rights lawyer is among the most dangerous professions in China,” he wrote in the lettertranslated by Chin Aid. “In the past ten years, both Li Heping and I were beaten by the police, hunted down, threatened by hooligans, imprisoned illegally, summoned by the government, monitored and detained, etc. Even our family members were investigated. We would have died much earlier without the protection of God.”

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