China Closes Illegal Falun Gong Web Site

China has closed a Falun Gong web site which is alleged to have spread illegal materials.

The site, launched by a local worker of a computer company in this capital of northeast China's Jilin province in May this year, has published books and articles of Li Hongzhi, founder of the Falun Gong cult, and practitioners' comments, and instigated Falun Gong practitioners to attack the government organs, police sources say.

The site even issued an emergency appeal calling on Falun Gong adherents to stage demonstrations in Beijing after Falun Gong was outlawed on July 22.

(China daily 1999/08/17)