May 1, 2005, Sunday

Falun Gong practitioners rallied outside the Singapore High Commission in Canberra today over the arrest of two practitioners in Singapore.

A Falun Gong spokesman said the group was asking the Singapore government to reconsider the guilty verdict handed to Ng Chye Huay and Cheng Lu Jin on April 27.

Among seven counts against the pair were charges of assembly without a permit and possession and distribution of illegal video compact discs (VCDs).

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