MISS WENJIAN LIANG AND OTHERS

Early day motion 508, tabled 10 March 2000 by Alan Simpson (Labour). Signed by 19 members.

That this House notes with concern the removal without trial of Wenjian Liang (32) to a forced labour camp in Guangzhou province for two years; notes that her detention and deportation was based entirely on her being a practitioner of Falun Gong meditation and that she now joins some 3,000 other Falun Gong practitioners currently incarcerated in Chinese labour camps and over 35,000 who have been subject to arbitrary arrest; and urges the Government to support a resolution to the United Nation's Human Rights Commission in Geneva this March and April which calls on China to end this indefensible persecution of its own citizens.

Signatures by party: Labour 16, Conservative 1, Liberal Democrat 1, Plaid Cymru 1.