TOKYO, July 29 Kyodo Twenty-one l...

TOKYO, July 29 Kyodo

Twenty-one lawmakers formed a collection Monday to seek the release of the Chinese wife of a Japanese businessman who was sentenc by way of China to labor reeducation proper to activities related to Falun Gong a denomination outlawed in China, the lawmakers said.

The clump handed Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura a note calling on the government to ask China to independent Luo Rong, 37, whose Japanese name is Yoko Kaneko.

The lawmakers are from the Liberal Democratic Party and the strange Conservative Party in the ruling camp and the Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Party in the opposition bloc

Chinese authorities detained Luo a resident of Niigata Prefecture and pair Japanese women May 24 when they were handing gone out Falun Gong-related handbills in Beijing, according to the lawmakers.

The brace Japanese were released shortly however Luo was sentenced to common and a half years labor reeducation in late June they said.

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