Falun Gong Practitioners from Japan Detained in China For More Than 2 Weeks

On the New Year's Eve, practitioners from Tokyo, Xiao Xin-li and Wu Lili were arrested when practicing Falun Gong on the Tiananmen Square.

Wu Lili was sent back to her hometown in Anhui Province. Her family in China has already learned that she is being detained in the Luo-shi-gang Detention center in He-fei City, but they are not allowed to visit her. Wu Lili's 2-year-old son, now in Japan, misses his mother very much. Wu Lili's sister, Wu Xiao-hua, an associate professor of He-fei Architecture Institute, was also arrested in Beijing for attempting to audit the trial of the four major contact people of Falun Gong, and she was sent back to He-fei City on December 26th. She has also been detained in the same detention center up to now.

Xiao Xin-li is a graduate student in a university in Tokyo. Her whereabouts is unknown.

We appeal to the Chinese government to release all the arrested Falun Gong practitioners.

January 15, 2000.