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Irish Times: China detains foreign Falun Gong members November 20, 2001 Chinese police today detained over 30 Western followers of the banned
Falun Gong group after a demonstration on Tiananmen Square, the group
and other sources said. German embassy spokesman Mr Tilo Klinner said the embassy received
several phone calls today from German citizens who said other German
nationals were being detained. "We are trying to confirm it ourselves,"
Mr Klinner said. A Beijing-based German reporter whose colleague witnessed the incident
said 33 foreign Falun Gong members were detained, including eight
Germans, five Swedes, four Swiss and at least one citizen from the
United States, Canada and Australia. "They were posing as just a group of tourists taking group photos and
were there for several minutes before being arrested," he said. Plain-clothed and uniformed police grabbed the protesters after they
unfurled Falun Gong banners, he said. A French Falun Gong group sent a statement to AFP saying followers from
nine Western countries had organised a demonstration. The "purely peaceful protest" was made "to make an appeal in the name
of
the millions of practitioners who have for the past two years faced
acts
of terrorism from their government without any recourse to appeal," the
French Falungong Association said. Posting date: 11/20/2001
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