Radio Free Asia Reports that Four Taiwanese Falun Gong Practitioners Were Denied Entry at the Hong Kong Airport

(Clearwisdom.net)

Radio Free Asia reported on April 29 that Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Chen Qiongqi and He Xiue flew from Kaohsiung to Hong Kong on Wednesday to participate in Falun Gong activities, but were searched and interrogated by immigration officers and sent back to Taiwan.

Ms. Chen told reporters that the immigration officers went through her luggage many times. They took away her cell phone to prevent her from contacting outside assistance and kept asking her with whom she was traveling and what her purposes were for visiting Hong Kong.

After detaining and interrogating her for three hours, the immigration officers decided to send her back to Taiwan. At that time she saw her friend He Xiue, with her hands and feet tied up, being carried away by immigration officers to the tarmac. The immigration officers untied her at the tarmac and forced her to board the plane for Taiwan.

According to Ms. Chen, Ms. He discovered two needle holes on her right foot and suspected that immigration officers had injected drugs into her while she was struggling earlier. She asked one of the immigration officers and he confirmed her suspicion. Ms. Chen said that she cried when she saw that Ms. He was tied up the way she was. "Why do they treat Falun Gong practitioners like this?"

The other two practitioners flew from Tokyo to Hong Kong on Wednesday night and were also denied entry at the airport and sent back to Taiwan. They also came to Hong Kong to attend the Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference held on May 1.

Hong Kong Falun Gong spokesman Kan Hung-cheung pointed out that the fact that Hong Kong Special District government repeated denial of overseas Falun Gong practitioners from entering Hong Kong is a way of suppressing Falun Gong. He said there have been many groups of overseas practitioners rejected at the Hong Kong airport. For an experience sharing conference in February last year, eighty overseas practitioners were turned back. "The district government has yet to offer us a reasonable explanation. We request that the district government investigate the incident of the practitioner being injected with drugs and make the results available to the public, and in the meantime immediately stop sending back practitioners." Kan said.

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