South China Morning Post: Petition To Urge Release Of Falun Gong Practitioner

September 16, 2003

Sophie Xiao, a Falun Gong spokeswoman, says she will petition the Hong Kong government to seek the release of her mother - detained in Beijing accused of disrupting social order. Yue Changzhi, 62, was arrested in the capital in July for distributing handbills about the spiritual group, Ms Xiao said.