Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that house church leaders Liu Fenggang and Xu Yonghai have been formally charged with revealing state secrets. (boxun.com)

According to sources in China, Liu Fenggang's wife, Bi Yuxia, was notified by telephone by the Zhejiang Procuratorate on February 23 that Liu had been formally charged, and that the family were entitled to retain the services of a lawyer. When Xu Yonghai's wife Li Shanna learned of Liu's situation, she telephoned the procuratorate and was told that Xu had also been formally charged, and that she could hire a lawyer for him. Under Chinese law, revealing state secrets is an offence punishable by a prison term of five years to life. (boxun.com)