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China: Christianity

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 10352, tabled on 13 September 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Chinese counterpart on the harassment and surveillance faced by the growing Chinese Protestant population in that country.

Answered on

9 October 2017

​We remain concerned about restrictions on freedom of religion or belief in China and have raised this issue regularly, including at the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue which took place on 27-28 June 2017.

Answered by

Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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