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Chinese cops detain 29 church leaders

Chicago Tribune - December 23, 2005


BEIJING - Police in central China detained 29 underground church leaders who allegedly held an illegal meeting to discuss helping local peasants with AIDS, a U.S.-based monitoring group and a police official said.

"We had a report that 70 or 80 people were having an unauthorized gathering," said a man who answered the phone at the Xincai County Public Security Bureau in central Henan province. He would only give his surname, Hu.

A news release from the U.S.-based China Aid Association said 40 police raided the meeting of about 100 underground church leaders while they were discussing plans to help peasants who contracted AIDS through blood transfusions.


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