Conviction New religious movements Messianic / communal movement Hunan, China · 1999

China: 'Lord God Sect' founder executed after conviction for raping eleven followers

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

founder of the 'Zhusheng Jiao' (Lord God Sect), claiming to be the Lord God

Organization

Zhusheng Jiao (Lord God Sect)

Spiritual nexus

The rapes were presented to believers as the prerogative of the god they followed — doctrine as the mechanism of access.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

1999-10-01 · conviction and death sentence; upheld and carried out

Hunan courts; Hunan High People's Court, China. Liu Jiaguo, who founded the Zhusheng Jiao in 1993 claiming to be the Lord God, was convicted of raping eleven female followers — two of them under fourteen — along with fraud and the cult-organising count. The Hunan High People's Court upheld his death sentence and he was executed in October 1999; his deputy Zhu Aiqing received seventeen years.

Primary record

national news agency execution report Deseret News / wire: 'China executes leader of cult for rape and fraud'.: Contemporaneous wire report.
advocacy context case background Dui Hua Human Rights Journal: background on the Lord God Sect prosecutions.: Human-rights research context on the case set.

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