BEIJING (AP) — A U.S.-based monitoring group says a top leader in China's underground Protestant church movement has been sentenced to two years in a labor camp for organizing illegal religious gatherings.

The group China Aid says pastor Shi Enhao was sentenced over the weekend after being detained on June 21 in the eastern city of Suqian. Labor camp sentences are handed out without trial on the recommendation of police and can be extended beyond the usual two year term.

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