Beijing - Another 45 alleged Falun Gong organisers were jailed over the weekend for up to 13 years in the ongoing government crackdown on the spiritual movement, Miriam Donohoe reports.
One was jailed for 13 years for renting a safe house for Falun Gong members and organising the manufacture of banners and printing Falun Gong leaflets. Two were jailed for 10 years for making banners and organising people to try to raise them in Tiananmen Square.
Hundreds of Falun Gong organisers have been jailed and thousands sent without trial to labour camps this year. The spiritual movement was banned in July 1999. Members last week started a walk from Dublin to Cork to highlight the case of a Trinity College post-graduate student who has been in a labour camp for more than a year.