ICC Note:
ICC partner, China Aid, has awarded the wife of an imprisoned Christian human rights lawyer with the Courage Award for Defense of Religious Freedom in China. Jin Bianling, the wife of Jiang Tianyong, has fought hard for the release of her husband from detention. Jin said, “Hope in Christ is far beyond our experience. It is not about regaining what we lost… We need to know the fact that God will always be with us, even during human rights disasters.” China has worked hard to detain human rights defenders who protect the rights of Christians and the oppressed in China. A crackdown spanning the last few years has seen the arrest and disappearance of scores of lawyers like Jiang.
2/1/2017 China (China Aid) – Today, the wife of an imprisoned human rights defender thanked China Aid for awarding her husband the Courage Award for Defense of Religious Freedom in China in a statement written for China Aid’s 15th anniversary forum.
Jin Bianling, the wife of kidnapped rights protector Jiang Tianyong, detailed her constant worry for her husband and his fellow lawyers, who were detained during a nationwide crackdown in China on human rights lawyers, and expressed her gratitude that Jiang’s sacrifice was being honored. Currently, Jiang is being held at an unknown location, and Jin said her family has partnered with lawyers, other Chinese citizens, and the international community in an attempt to discover his whereabouts.
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