Chinese Death Ruling for Banned Sect Posted by Scott Manning on January 10, 2002 | Comments (1)

BEIJING - A court in China sentenced the leader of a banned Christian sect to death Sunday, a human rights group said.

The founder of the South China Church, Gong Shengliang, was convicted by the Jingmen City Intermediate Court on charges including ``using a cult to undermine the enforcement of the law,'' the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said. The church is banned by the government as cult. Full Story...