Falun Gong "hijacked" Chinese satellite

Falun Gong is a proscribed organisation in mainland China, Amnesty International has claimed that detained members of the Falun Gong have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment by the Chinese government.

The Daily said that Falun Gong's "hijack" of the TV satellite severely affected China's TV programmes and "jeopardised China's national security".

The organisation is alleged to have replaced the normal footage with its own signals which contained reference to the cult.

The paper quotes the vice president of the China Satellite users society as saying the alleged hijack was the same as breaking into other people's houses, and was an "overt challenge to modern civilised society".

The director of China's International Institute of Space Law claimed that hijack "trampled on international conventions".

Here's the People's Daily article, while this is the Amnesty International report. µ