{"id":31569,"date":"2012-12-23T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31569 "},"modified":"2012-12-23T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:16:00","slug":"31569-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31569","title":{"rendered":"Family urges China to release jailed preacher after he suffers a stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Published December 23, 2012<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>BEIJING &#8211; &nbsp;Family members of a charismatic Christian preacher whose church is banned as a cult in China are calling for his release from prison after he apparently suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk and speak normally.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>The family members of Gong Shengliang petitioned government offices in Beijing this past week and released an open letter earlier this month after seeing his condition.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>His sister, Gong Shuzhen, says the family asked the prison to release Gong, only to be rebuffed.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Prison authorities have declined comment.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Gong&#8217;s South China Church attracted some 100,000 followers before a crackdown. Amid police pressure against the group, Gong&#8217;s aides beat followers-turned-informants. He was arrested in 2001 and is serving a 19-year sentence for encouraging the beatings and raping at least two followers.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Continue reading the<\/span><strong style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/12\/23\/family-urges-china-to-release-jailed-preacher-after-suffers-stroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">&nbsp;original article.&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Family members of a charismatic Christian preacher whose church is banned as a cult in China are calling for his release from prison after he apparently suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk and speak normally.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}