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Four Falun Gong strikers detained in Macau

Reuters, Sep. 3, 2001
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MACAU — Four members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement staging a hunger strike in Macau on Sunday were taken to a police station for questioning and released four hours later.

A police spokeswoman said the four activists were taken away because they had not received approval from authorities to stage a protest outside the building housing China's Liaison Office in the former Portuguese colony.

A sect member at the scene, who declined to be named, said the hunger strike was aimed at putting pressure on China to release 300 imprisoned Falun Gong members on the mainland.

None of the four members detained in Macau was charged. They later joined three other sect members, who had prior approval to stage a hunger strike in a park, to continue their protest.

Although Falun Gong is not officially registered in Macau, the group is not banned there, as it is in mainland China.

Independent observers believe the sect has fewer than two dozen members in Macau, which was returned to Chinese rule in December 1999.
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