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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7906

19 February 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/china/hong kong

19/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - British Liberal Democrat Graham Watson, chair of the Committee of Freedoms and Citizens' Rights in the European Parliament, regarded as legitimate the request of the Falung Gong movement to hold conferences and meetings in Hong Kong. Mr. Watson, who was in Hong Kong at the head of a delegation of the EP's Liberal Group stressed that Hong Kong legislation recognised the right to freedom of religion and assembly, and that the Falun Gong, as long as it remained...

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