4 U.S. Followers of Falun Gong Held
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HONG KONG — Chinese police Wednesday detained four American and two Hong Kong members of the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement, a Hong Kong human rights group said.
Police in Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, took the six from their hotel rooms, the Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said.
The group said the Americans are engineers and scientists.
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