Three Falun Gong members practice medidation exercises outside the Hong Kong branch of the mainland Chinese Xinhua news agency building, background, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1999. The members who hold U.S. residency rights were arrested by Chinese authorities in the southern city of Shenzhen, sere released Monday after being held for 13 days as part of the nationwide clampdown on the Falun Gong meditataion group which Chinese authorities have labelled "an evil sect." From right to left: Zhao Chen, an electronic commerce marketing manager living in San Francisco, Dr. Lili Feng, a biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and Alan Huang, a software engineer living in San Jose. (AP Photo/Anat Givon)