CHINA: CHRISTIAN ATTORNEYS TORTURED, ARRESTED
One defender of human rights receives electric shocks; officials whisk away another.
LOS ANGELES, October 4

(Compass Direct News) – China’s crackdown on religious freedom advocates ahead of the Beijing Olympics extended to two Christian human rights attorneys the past two weekends.

Attorney Li Heping released a statement saying a group of men ordered him to stop practicing law, beat him and struck him with electric batons for nearly five hours on Saturday night (September 29). The previous Saturday (September 22), Christian human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng and his family were reportedly arrested a day after he sent an open letter to the U.S. Congress listing human rights abuses. the rest