Strasbourg, 16/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The EU and the Member States were invited, on Thursday by the EP during its emergency debates, to present the UN Human Rights Commission, during its spring session in Geneva, with a resolution denouncing the religious rights violations in China, and in particular the victims that are Tibetan and Mongol Buddhists and certain Christian churches and Muslim communities. By adopting an amendments from the Liberal and Green/ALE groups and from members of the Bonino List Olivier Dupuis, the EP added to this list "the participants in the Falung Gong movement", declared illegal in July 1999. In its resolution, the Parliament signals that, according to certain information, around 50,000 who participate in this movement have been "victims of arrests", and that around 25,000 others among them are presently incarcerated, deported or forcefully interned in psychiatric hospitals, and that 137 of them have died following violence or torture.