Chinese court tells Dutch collector to return 1,000-yr-old Buddha statue
A Chinese court has asked a Dutch art collector to return an over 1,000-year-old relic that was stolen from a temple in Fujian's Sanming city in 1995. The relic, a Buddha statue contains the mummified remains of a Buddhist monk. The collector claims he bought the statue in Hong Kong in 1996 but denied that it was the stolen relic.