Chinese pastor, free after 7 years in prison, says he is unable to get an ID

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Chinese pastor Rev. John Sanqiang Cao said he is facing severe restrictions upon his release from a seven-year prison sentence, including the inability to get an ID.

Unable to buy a train ticket, or even see a doctor at a hospital, a Chinese pastor found that even after his release from prison, he is not quite free. The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison while coming back from a missionary trip in Burma. Now back in his hometown of Changsha in southern Hunan province, he is without any legal documentation in his country, unable to access even the most basic services without a Chinese identification.

In prison, his Chinese passport had expired, he said, and he could not renew it. Cao said he has been to the police station many times since his release, and had even hired a lawyer. So far, he said police had not given him a satisfactory answer as to why his records no longer exist. A police officer at the Dingwangtai police station in Changsha, where Cao's hukou registration is supposed to be, said he did not know how to address Cao's claims.

 

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