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China executes cult members over McDonald’s murder
Source: Reuters
China executes cult members over McDonald’s murder
Reuters in Beijing
Monday 2 February 2015 09.21 GMT
China has executed two members of a banned religious cult, a father and his daughter, for murdering a woman in a McDonald’s restaurant after she rebuffed an apparent recruitment attempt, state media said.
The 37-year-old woman, Wu Shuoyan, was attacked last May in the eastern province of Shandong by members of the Church of Almighty God, which had preached that a global apocalypse would take place in 2012. The case sparked a national outcry after it was revealed that Wu was beaten to death for refusing to give her telephone number to members of the group.
Zhang Fan and her father, Zhang Lidong, were executed after the supreme court approved their sentence, the official Xinhua news agency said. It added that they had been allowed to meet family members before being killed.
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The group, which originated in central Henan province, believes that Jesus was resurrected as Yang Xiangbin, wife of the sect’s founder, Zhao Weishan, according to previous Xinhua reports.
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Reuters in Beijing
Monday 2 February 2015 09.21 GMT
China has executed two members of a banned religious cult, a father and his daughter, for murdering a woman in a McDonald’s restaurant after she rebuffed an apparent recruitment attempt, state media said.
The 37-year-old woman, Wu Shuoyan, was attacked last May in the eastern province of Shandong by members of the Church of Almighty God, which had preached that a global apocalypse would take place in 2012. The case sparked a national outcry after it was revealed that Wu was beaten to death for refusing to give her telephone number to members of the group.
Zhang Fan and her father, Zhang Lidong, were executed after the supreme court approved their sentence, the official Xinhua news agency said. It added that they had been allowed to meet family members before being killed.
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The group, which originated in central Henan province, believes that Jesus was resurrected as Yang Xiangbin, wife of the sect’s founder, Zhao Weishan, according to previous Xinhua reports.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/02/china-executes-cult-members-mcdonalds-murder
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