AFP: China Releases Three Falun Gong Members from France
September 4, 2001 GRENOBLE, Sep 4, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Three
Chinese members of the Falun Gong movement who live in
France and who were detained while visiting relatives
in China have been released, a support group announced
here Tuesday. The trio, a couple and their teenage daughter, were
seized in a raid on August 7 while visiting family in
north China's inner Mongolia region. Ivan Samson, a member of a support group, said the
family had made it known that they were "doing well,
were out of prison but they can't say when they will
come back to France." The spiritual group identified the family as Chi Jian,
a researcher in the southeastern French city of
Grenoble, his wife Sun Fenglong and their daughter Chi
Yifan, all of whom hold French residency. The Chinese government has a previous record of
detaining overseas nationals or residents when they go
to China to visit relatives, the Falun Gong
information center said. Human rights groups estimate that hundreds of Falun
Gong followers have been sentenced to jail terms and
tens of thousands sent to labor camps, while more than
100 are reported to have died in police detention.
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