Tang Jitian, Wang Cheng and Jiang Tianyong were released on Sunday, after being detained in Heilongjiang province, near the Russian border. All three said that they signed confessions admitting that they had ‘disturbed public order’ during their detention. The three had been protesting against the detention of some five or six members of Falun Gong which was banned in 1999 as an ‘evil cult’. There is ‘absolutely no legal oversight at all’ of the detention of the Falun Gong members, say the lawyers. Source: New York Times
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