BBC Worldwide Monitoring: Austrian Falun Gong protester arrested in China

May 14, 2002, Tuesday

Kurier, Vienna

Text of report by Austrian newspaper Kurier on 14 May

(in German)

Austrian citizen Alexander Hamrle has been arrested in the northern Chinese city of Changchun. Hamrle, a member of the Falun Gong movement, wanted to protest in public against the persecution of [Falun Gong].