WASHINGTON, July 24 Kyodo Members...

WASHINGTON, July 24 Kyodo

Members of the Falun Gong spiritual arrange staged a large rally Tuesday in Washington to commemorate the third anniversary of its banning on the Chinese government.

About 1000 race including members of the U Congres and human rights form into groupss marched from the Chinese Embassy to the Capital, appealing for an completion to China's crackdown on the sect

The demonstrators held pictures of assaulted practitioners and wore gold-colored shirts with three Chinese characters meaning fact benevolence and forbearance -- Falun Gong ideals -- displayed.

China outlawed the mental action in July 1999.

The Falun Gong protester also called for an immediate release of a Chinese female member who married a Japanese man in Niigata Prefecture forward the Sea of Japan coast.

According to the cluster the Chinese woman was taken into custody by dint of Chinese authorities in June for distributing fliers in Beijing about the group

She has been sentenc to a ''reeducation camp'' for individual and a half years.

Zheng Wu 46 who joined the rally from Pennsylvania, said he cannot get back to China with the harsh persecution going forward there against Falun Gong practitioners.

Wu who came to the United States 12 years ago and just became a U citizen last week, said he usually meditates about 20 to 30 minutes a day because he believes practicing Falun Gong makes him healthy.

''Is there anything inapposite with this?,'' he asked, criticizing the hard-line policy taken at Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

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