BEIJING, Aug 23, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) The Falun Gong movement on Thursday condemned as "propaganda" a death sentence imposed by a Chinese court on a follower of the outlawed spiritual sect accused of a brutal axe murder.
The group's beliefs explicitly rejected violence, said the New York-based Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) Information Center, meaning that if the incident took place the murderer could not be a Falun Gong follower.
A court in the southern province of Guangxi condemned Lan Yunchang to death suspending the sentence for two years, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.
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The Falun Dafa Information Center condemned the court case as part of the Chinese government's "campaign to tarnish and incite hatred against non-violent Falun Gong practitioners".
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