AUSTRALIA

Members of the Falun Gong movement re-enact means of torture which they says its practitioners are regularly subjected to by a branch of the Chinese security service known as 610, in Sydney June 11, 2005. Protesters rallied in several Australian cities on Saturday urging the government to grant political asylum to a Chinese diplomat who is in hiding saying he fears for his safety and that of his family if returned to China. Chen Yonglin, a 37-year-old political affairs consul, told the Australian Immigration Department last month that he had been troubled by his role at China's Sydney consulate prosecuting practitioners of Falun Gong. The movement, which embraces a form of meditation blended with Buddhism and Chinese mysticism, is denounced by the Chinese government as an evil cult. REUTERS/David Gray