‘1500 jailed in pre-Games clean-up’
Michael Sheridan; 21/4/08
Members of a peaceful Chinese spiritual movement say more than 1500 of its supporters have been detained in the run-up to the Olympic Games and that one of them, a popular folk singer, has died in custody. The arrests have been carried out against Falun Gong, a group that practises traditional meditation and exercise. The Chinese Government banned Falun Gong in 1999, calling it “an evil cult”. The official media have not reported the arrests, but there has been lively discussion among music fans on websites over the fate of the singer Yu Zhou, 42. “F…k authority. Another beautiful soul has left the world,” one distraught fan commented.
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China, Falun Gong
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