Associated Press Worldstream
April 5, 2003 Saturday
An exhibit displaying the works of a painter who is a [practitioner] of the Falun Gong spiritual
movement had to be relocated after a theater closed the show at the request of the Chinese embassy,
the organizer said Saturday.
The exhibit, which shows paintings by the Chinese-born Zhang Cui Ying, will reopen in a hotel next
week after a local theater where it was initially shown shut it down, said Adrian Sturdza, who
organized the exhibit.
Two Chinese embassy officials disrupted the exhibit's March 31 vernissage at the theater, telling
visitors they were taking part in an illegal event. The theater then shut the exhibit down, said
Sturdza, who also is a Falun Gong [practitioner].
"Last month, some Chinese embassy official told me that they would not allow this exhibit to
take place in Romania," Sturdza said. "I laughed at him, telling them that Romania is not
China."
[...]
Zhao Deyong, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Bucharest, confirmed that the embassy had asked
the theater to cancel the exhibit and that two diplomats went to observe it on opening day.
[...]
Sturdza said the organization was legal in Romania as a cultural association. The exhibit is to
reopen Tuesday in the lobby of Bucharest's Intercontinental Hotel, he added.
[...]
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