Hallands Nyheter (Swedish newspaper): Falun Gong practitioner from Varberg (Sweden) was not allowed to enter Hong Kong [Excerpt]


STOCKHOLM/HONGKONG (TT)

June 28, 2002

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Yesterday, Swedish time, Mimmi Svensson was still in the airport in Hong Kong.

"Immigration police have put me in a big room here in the airport together with two other women. There are six guards in the room, she told TT via her cell phone.

Mimmi Svensson told that she was hand picked out of a queue in Hong Kong's international airport after showing her passport, on the afternoon, Swedish time.

"I am hundred percent sure that there is a blacklist."

On the afternoon the meaning was she was going to be put on a plane to Taipei. But instead she was placed in a big room with bunk beds over the night, in wait for a flight to Sweden.

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Mimmi Svensson tells she travelled as a private person and tourist but that her purpose was to inform the surrounding world about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

Her friend Maria Sahlin in Stockholm believes that Mimmi Svensson was hindered from entry because the president of the China, Jiang, is expected to visit Hong Kong for the five-year celebration.

Seven other Falun Gong practitioners from four different countries have also been stopped at Hong Kong's international airport since the weekend, said a spokes woman yesterday for the meditation movement for AFP. The reason is mostly due to the five-year celebration.

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Translated from: http://www.hn.se/a_n2_standard.php?id=113988&avdelning_1=109&&avdelning_2=169&

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