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  • Long-Awaited Trials for Pastoral Couple
    Yang Rongli is smiling. She is surrounded by group of people, many of whom are holding cameras.
    Yang Rongli (light jacket) upon her 2016 release.
    Photo: ChinaAid

    Yang Rongli and Wang Xiaoguang are a pastoral couple who have been subjected to ongoing persecution from the Communist government for many years. In 2009, they were sentenced for allegedly disrupting public order. As a result, Yang spent seven years in prison, while Wang served three years. In August 2021, the couple had been arrested again. This time, they were accused of fraud in relation to the donations received by the church from its members. After almost four years, both cases have finally gone to court, through which the husband and wife were each tried separately.