Another church in Minsk, the Belarusian Evangelical Church, had its legal status removed by the city court on September 20. However the pastor, Ernst Sabilo, has pledged to continue meeting for worship despite the court's ruling. This court ruling follows a similar ruling against the Belarusian Evangelical Reformed Church on August 22.
On September 26, police in Henan Province, China arrested a house church pastor, Ma Yinzhou, in an attempt to force him to reveal the whereabouts of his son, Ma Shulei, a fulltime house church evangelist. Shulei turned himself in on October 2 in order to save his father. However, both are now being held in police custody.
On the morning on September 28, Tong Qimiao, a Christian businessman from Zhejiang Province, was questioned by security agents in Kashgar. Since he had no idea what they were asking him about, Qimiao was unable to give them the information they were seeking. Consequently, the police seriously beat him and left him with a broken chest bone. Now in hospital, Tong has been threatened and forced to sign a statement that he was never beaten during interrogation.
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