Author: Ravi Bajpai

Ravi Bajpai A Christian man who was detained for about five months after Chinese police raided an unregistered church gathering has been granted refugee status in New Zealand. The country’s appellate immigration body has ruled the man faces a real chance of being arrested and detained again if he were to return to China and practice his faith through an unregistered church. “The appellant has already been detained for five or six months simply for going to church,” tribunal member S Benson said in a September 3 decision by the Immigration and Protection Tribunal (IPT). The man, whose identity is…