Falun Gong Defiant on Protest

Followers of the Falun Gong movement vowed Tuesday to keep flying banners denouncing the Chinese government's crackdown at a sit-in protest Monday outside Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong, even though the police had warned them to remove the banners.

A spokeswoman for Fulun Gong said that the protest had begun on Sept. 24 and would continue. Some of the banners were removed Saturday by the Hong Kong authorities, but the protesters replaced them. HONG KONG Followers of the Falun Gong movement vowed Tuesday to keep flying banners denouncing the Chinese government's crackdown at a sit-in protest Monday outside Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong, even though the police had warned them to remove the banners.

A spokeswoman for Fulun Gong said that the protest had begun on Sept. 24 and would continue. Some of the banners were removed Saturday by the Hong Kong authorities, but the protesters replaced them. HONG KONG Followers of the Falun Gong movement vowed Tuesday to keep flying banners denouncing the Chinese government's crackdown at a sit-in protest Monday outside Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong, even though the police had warned them to remove the banners.

A spokeswoman for Fulun Gong said that the protest had begun on Sept. 24 and would continue. Some of the banners were removed Saturday by the Hong Kong authorities, but the protesters replaced them.