TOKYO — Chinese authorities have released a Chinese woman living in Japan who was detained in China from May last year for her activities in the Falun Gong, a sect outlawed in China, Japanese diplomats there said Monday.
According to the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, Luo Rong, 39, was sentenced by China to labor reeducation for about a year and a half after she was arrested May 24 in Beijing along with two Japanese while passing out Falun Gong leaflets to passersby.