He was also concerned at Iceland's attitude towards the Falun Gong.

In his view, Iceland's response to the Falun Gong incident was an upsetting precedent.

Police authorities informed Ms. Qiu that her detention was in connection with her affiliation with Falun Gong.

The most worrying factor, in his view, was that the list of Falun Gong members had been circulated.

Over the past 20 years, laid off workers, dispossessed farmers, Falun Gong practitioners, and angry Tibetans have organized protests.

After the visit, Icelandic authorities had destroyed all but one copy of the list of banned Falun Gong members.

The Government's information is unambiguous in that Ms. Qiu is being proceeded against because of her affiliation with Falun Gong.

It was also said that the repression of Falun Gong is so harsh that no one dares to assist Ms. Qiu.

The Falun Gong organization has repeatedly engaged in destructive activities of every kind, violating public morals and seriously endangering public security.

As the rule of law prevails in China, however, the steps taken to counter the Falun Gong organization are strictly legal.

Falun Gong is not a religion but an anti social, anti scientific, misanthropic sect whose violent leanings are becoming daily more manifest.

Internet monitoring is also behind the constant rise in the number of Falun Gong practitioners executed by the state a total of 1,692 as of April 18.

They had also learned from police sources elsewhere in Europe that, even in peaceful demonstrations, Falun Gong members had been known to push or rush through police lines.

All the terrible events since then the Tiananmen Square massacre, persecution of Falun Gong, and repression of civic activists are the evil fruit of that un cleansed original sin.

The Government offers warm hearted assistance and patient education to the vast majority of deluded Falun Gong practitioners, fully guaranteeing all their rights and helping them return to normal life.

Moreover, while the Falun Gong must of course obey the law once inside the country, Iceland could not simply assume that they would disrupt the peace before they had even arrived.

Thus, the Ministry of Justice had forwarded to Icelandair a list of Falun Gong members who had booked flights to Iceland but could be expected to be denied entry into the country.

Therefore, to render an opinion in this case, the Working Group is not called upon to take a position on whether Falun Gong is a religion, a religious denomination, a sect, or a belief.

Will the Chinese authorities respond to them with ever greater repression, as they have with dissidents and Falun Gong, creating discord and disruption, or will they accommodate new popular demands by moving to greater democracy?

The exceptions to this state of affairs are when the Party initiates a propaganda campaign, such as the one associated with the turnover of Hong Kong in 1997, or the more recent anti Falun Gong blitzkrieg.

In talks with Falun Gong members who had arrived in Iceland the week before the visit, Icelandic authorities had learned that some members did not intend to comply with police instructions to stay in defined protest areas.

Referring to the allegation of the source that Ms. Qiu is being persecuted because of her religious convictions, the Government argues that Falun Gong is not a religion, but rather an anti social and anti scientific sect.

Ms. Árnadóttir (Iceland) said that freedom of religion had not been at issue in the Falun Gong case but rather the maintenance of public order by a small police force that was not backed up by an army or military reserve force.

The Icelandic authorities had believed they were minimizing the harmful consequences of their decision by instructing Icelandair to warn certain Falun Gong members that they would be denied entry into the country and that there was no point in purchasing an airline ticket.

A general reference to the dangers of practising Falun Gong did not convince the Working Group that in the context of this particular case the deprivation of liberty imposed on Ms. Qiu is necessary and, if so, is proportionate to the aim pursued.

When Falun, officially became a city, in 1641, it was this street that named the city to Falun.

In the case under review, the Government failed to adduce any argument explaining why and how Ms. Qiu's affiliation with, or profession of, the ideas or principles of Falun Gong was or could have been detrimental to the society as a whole, or to other individuals.

Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with close to 100,000 inhabitants.

Västra Skolan was built in 1915, based on a design by the city architect in Falun, Klas Boman.

Falun was originally famous for its copper mine, and is today an important service and industrial city even though the mine is closed (since 1992).

And aside from fur wearing Gong Li (or Leo, on a recent stop in Hong Kong), few stars in China have become known for their green choices.

Unlike civilian refugees from Germany, who were kept in interment camps throughout the country, British and American airmen were placed in hotels and bed and breakfast establishments in the Falun area, and enjoyed relative freedom.

The day has been successful enough to attract international news attention, and for groups to use the day to focus attention on particular issues such as genocide in Darfur, Falun Dafa, and serious crimes of violence against women.

The year 2001, the city, the copper mine and mining areas of Falun were added to the list of world heritage sites by the United Nations, which means that the city is worth preserving, as it is considered to be of interest for all of humanity.