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Mr President, religious freedom is a fundamental human right and, as a previous speaker said, the Chinese Constitution claims, at Article 36, to allow for freedom of religious belief, yet the rhetoric is not the reality.
One example given by Amnesty International was the case of Zhang Rongliang, who was the leader of one of the largest house church networks in China. He was detained in his village; the police searched every house in that village, confiscating any Christian material; his wife and child have been in hiding; he has been imprisoned five times for a total of 12 years, during which time he was severely tortured.
This House has also raised the case of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, the Tibetan monk, who was sentenced to death by the Chinese authorities in an unfair trial. He is now in prison for life, but no one knows where he is being held, and his family would like to know.
Until China deals seriously with religious freedom, we will have to highlight human rights abuses in this House. We have to speak up for those who do not have the freedom to speak for themselves."@en1
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