Eye for an eye: China bans US religious leader as payback for sanction over Falun Gong detention


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A US religious official was sanctioned by China on Wednesday for “promoting cults” in retaliation for an earlier United States sanction on a Chinese official over religious freedom.

Johnnie Moore, a US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) commissioner, and his family members will be denied entry to the Chinese mainland as well as Hong Kong and Macau, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular press conference on Wednesday

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