AFP: Jailed Taiwanese Falun Gong Practitioner Freed By China

TAIPEI - A Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioner has been released and returned to the island after he was illegally jailed for two weeks in China, his wife said Tuesday.

Lin Hsiao-kai, 29, who became a Falun Gong [practitioner] three years ago, returned to his home in Changhua, central Taiwan, on Tuesday, his newlywed wife Chen Shu-ya said.

Chen said her husband needs to take a rest although he was not tortured while jailed on the mainland.

At a press conference a week ago, Chen said she believed her husband was arrested because he had Falun Gong data in a lap-top computer he carried with him as he travelled to Shanghai.

Despite the release of Lin, Taiwan Falun Gong [practitioners] launched a round-the-island bicycle ride from downtown Taipei Tuesday as part of efforts to publicicse four other Taiwan-linked Falun Gong [practitioners] jailed in China.

The four, all Chinese women married to Taiwanese men, had been illegally jailed in China for up to two years, Chang said.

"The campaign was aimed to raise the awareness of Taiwan people towards the Chinese government's prosecution of Falun Gong," Chang Ching-hsi, head of the Taiwan Falun Gong unit, told AFP.

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At least 1,600 Falun Gong followers have been killed, 500 others illegally sentenced, 20,000 sent to re-education camps and 100,000 arrested and jailed, according to the [group].

It is not clear how many Falun Gong followers there are in Taiwan, but Chang said the group has been expanding at a rapid pace and now estimates [about] 300,000 people.

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