Text of report by Radio TV Hong Kong audio web site on 10 December

About 100 Falun Gong practitioners have performed meditation to mark Human Rights Day. They displayed banners calling on President Jiang Zemin to stop terrorizing their [fellow practitioners] on the mainland. Their spokesperson, Sophie Xiao, said persecution against the movement had worsened and that the group had sent a petition to legislators and the SAR [special administrative region] government.

[Xiao] We expressed, of course, given the worsening situation over the past two years and four months, how and to what extent China has imposed persecution of ordinary people and we would like to draw the international concern - or anybody who is kind-hearted - to call for support and to call to stop this persecution in China.