Document #1211618
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
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.