鈥楢lmighty God鈥 members jailed
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NINE members of the “Almighty God” cult have been jailed by a court in central China’s Hubei Province for between 18 months and three years, local authorities said yesterday.
The cult members were convicted of “undermining the implementation of laws by making use of cult organizations,” according to the people’s procuratorate of Zigui County.
Police found them with 422 books, 1,047 leaflets, 283 video discs and 12 memory cards with more than 101,000 video, photo and text files promoting the cult.
They recruited and brainwashed their followers, according to the procuratorate.
On Saturday, a court in northeast China’s Liaoning Province said five members of the cult had been sentenced to two or three years for spreading propaganda.
“Almighty God,” known in Chinese as Quannengshen, grabbed national headlines last year when a video posted online went viral that showed five of its members beating a woman to death at a McDonald’s fast food outlet in the eastern city of Zhaoyuan, condemning her as an “evil spirit” after she refused to give them her cellphone number.
Quannengshen, which first appearing in the 1990s in central China’s Henan Province, claims that Jesus was resurrected as Yang Xiangbin, wife of the cult’s founder Zhao Weishan.
The couple fled to the United States in September 2000.
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