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Article: Imprisoned Chinese Catholic Bishop dies in custody.(Inside ...
The New American;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Roman Catholic Bishop Han Dingxiang, age 71, died in police custody on September 9, after nearly eight years of imprisonment in China. "With the exception of ...

Article: Chinese Catholic Bishop Dies in Custody
AP Online;  September 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... repeatedly detained in China for his loyalty to the Vatican died in police custody, a monitoring group said Tuesday. Bishop Han Dingxiang, 71, was cremated within six hours of his death Sunday and buried in a public cemetery with no priests or other faithful ...

Article: Beijing to Appoint New Catholic Bishop
AP Online;  September 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... repeatedly detained in China for his loyalty to the Vatican died in police custody, according to a monitoring group. Bishop Han Dingxiang, 71, had been under house arrest or other forms of detention for nearly eight years. He died while being treated for an ...

Article: China continues suppression of religion.
Catholic Insight;  March 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Father Liao Haiqing was arrested August 4, 1995. Catholic layman Huang Tengzong was arrested August 6, 1995. Bishop Han Dingxiang of Yong Nian and Bishop Jia Zhiguo of Zhending, Hebei, arrested August 27, 1995, were released from jail at the end of ...

Article: Deaths can be mysterious in China, not least because Chinese ...
National Review;  October 8, 2007 ;     544 words ... ... China, not least because Chinese officialdom has a way of forgetting that anyone has died. So it was with 71-year-old Han Dingxiang, a Catholic bishop who--according to a religious-rights group--spent some 35 years in prison, labor camps, and ...

Article: International Briefs
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  September 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... repeatedly detained in China for his loyalty to the Vatican died in police custody, a monitoring group said Tuesday. Bishop Han Dingxiang, 71, was cremated within six hours of his death Sunday and buried in a public cemetery with no priests or other faithful ...

Transcript: HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA:JOSEPH KUNG
Congressional Testimony;  April 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... We know for sure that eight bishops are now in jail They are Bishops 1) AN Shuxin ... of Baoding .., Hebei .., 2) HAN Dingxiang ... of Yong Nian .., Hebei, 3) JIA Zhiguo . ..of Zhengding .., Hebei 4) LIN xili ... of Wenzhou .., Zhejiang ...