Human Rights Watch World Report 1993 states that on 15 June 1992, in the Hu Guan district of Chang Zhi, Shanxi province, Public Security Bureau (PSB) personnel conducted a raid on a gathering of more than 100 Christians (Human Rights Watch 1992, 162-163). Twelve church leaders and laymen were arrested and those inside the "church house" were assaulted with electric batons (Ibid.).

The attached document about the problems of religious work, which was produced by the Central Parliamentary Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, states that
"each level of Public Security Bureau should take effective actions to decisively stop the using of religious problems to instigate the public to cause trouble, disturb the security of society, destroying the country's oneness and ethnic unity" (5 Feb. 1991, 6).

For further information on the PSB and Bureau of Religious Affairs mandates, please refer to the attached excerpts from Report of the Australian Human Rights Delegation to China of July 1991.

Additional and/or corroborative information on the above topic could not be found among the sources currently available to the DIRB.

Australia. 1991. Report of the Australian Human Rights Delegation to China, 14-26 July 1991. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

China. Communist Party, Central Parliamentary Committee. 5 February 1991. Regarding Circular to Further Improve the Numerous Problems of Religious Work. Translated by Steven Chan.

Human Rights Watch. December 1992. Human Rights Watch World Report 1993. New York: Human Rights Watch.

Australia. 1991. Report of the Australian Human Rights Delegation to China, 14-26 July 1991. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

China. Communist Party, Central Parliamentary Committee. 5 February 1991. Regarding Circular to Further Improve the Numerous Problems of Religious Work. Translated by Steven Chan.