(Clearwisdom.net) The Associated Press reported on January 5, 2006 that Falun Gong practitioners protested on January 6, 2006 (Bangkok Time) on a sidewalk outside the Chinese embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. The practitioners gathered to protest the recent arrest of several of their fellow practitioners in Thailand. The banner that the practitioners held read, "The CCP [Chinese Communist Party] is the criminal. Thailand: Immediately free Falun Gong practitioners."

Falun Gong practitioners peacefully protest in front of the Chinese embassy in Bangkok

In addition, according to The Epoch Times' report on January 4, 2006, "Five Falun Gong refugees to Thailand remain detained at the Immigration Detention Center (IDC) in Bangkok, over two weeks after being arrested across from the Chinese Embassy for peacefully protesting the state persecution of Falun Gong adherents in China." Huang Guohua is still being detained, his four-year-old daughter Huang Ying has been released.

The report states, "The Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group ( www.falunhr.org ) submitted a formal complaint about the arrests and associated police violence to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights." And at the same time, the group revealed to people around the world that the Chinese Communist regime instigated the Thai police to persecute Falun Gong practitioners and requested the Thai government to immediately release the detained practitioners. Falun Gong practitioners in Thailand intend to continue protesting at the Chinese Embassy.

Posting date: 1/8/2006
Original article date: 1/7/2006
Category: News & Media Reports
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/1/7/118222.html

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