BEIJING, June 26 Kyodo Chinese vi...

BEIJING, June 26 Kyodo

Chinese viewers settl down to watch a music and drama point out broadcast by a state-run television station in Yantai in eastern Shandong Province were instead bring face to faceed with a message form the banned Falun Gong meditative motion local police said Wednesday.

Instead of the scheduled program, the Chinese characters of the banned movement's name appeared Sunday for about 15 minutes from around 7 pm said a Yantai policeman on phone who identified himself single as Wang.

A 15-second showing of Falun Gong's name happened about 8 pm Tuesday forward another Yantai television station, he said.

At the same time Tuesday, Falun Gong's name also appeared instead of regular programming in succession a satellite-television station in central Hunan Province, according to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.

The Hong Kong-based rights cluster reported earlier that nine the bulk of mankind were arrested in March after they ''hijacked'' regular television broadcasts to point out Falun Gong messages in the city of Changchun in the northeastern province of Jilin.

All of China's television stations are state-run and their contenteds are highly regulated by Communist Party officials.

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