24/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - According to a press statement, Hans-Gert Pöttering, president of the EPP-ED group at the European Parliament, has protested in a letter to the Chinese Ambassador to the European Union, Guan Chnegyuan, about the arrest of eight Catholic priests and more than a hundred protestants and call demanded their immediate release. Pöttering warned of the "human rights situation in China, which had to be significantly improved before the Olympic Games" in Peking planned...