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Tue 10 Oct 2008UCC Chinese student urges Cowen to inquire about his mother's detention
A CORK-BASED Chinese student, whose mother has been held in China since June due to her links with the Falun Gong movement, has appealed to Taoiseach Brian Cowen to raise the issue of her continued detention and the wider issue of human rights during his visit to the country this week.
The parents of Tang Liang, a food science student at University College Cork (UCC), were arrested in Henan province during a crack-down on Falun Gong practitioners in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. They had been distributing a DVD containing commentaries on China’s Communist Party.
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