Christian bookstore owner Chen Yu was fined almost 30,000 dollars for selling “illegal” books in Taizhou city. The Christian books were imported from Taiwan and the U.S., among other countries.
According to an article from persecution watchdog group, International Christian Concern, On September 1, 2019, Chen, who operated an online bookstore was detained for selling unapproved religious publications. Consequently, the police launched a nationwide investigation to track down the bookstore’s customers through sale records and confiscated their purchased books.
Last week, Chen received a sentence of seven years in prison and the Chinese Communist Party will burn all 12,864 books in his bookstore. His iPhone was also confiscated.
According to Disrn, the Chinese Communist Party has begun to search for all Chen Yu’s customers to destroy what they’ve bought.
This isn’t the first time the Chinese Communist Party has targeted Christians.
China has been censoring religious leaders to make sure they don’t mention “God” in their teachings. Further, the Chinese Communist Party has forced churches to install surveillance cameras so they can monitor the teachings, and they completely shut down a house church for refusing to comply.