Singapore Ratchets Down Freedom Before Hosting APEC

Increasing pressure being put on Falun Gong practitioners to stay away from certain public areas during APEC Summit.
Singapore Ratchets Down Freedom Before Hosting APEC
Falun Gong practitioner Gao Hongmei (center) meditates at Esplanade Park in a high traffic zone for Chinese tourists. Police have told the Falun Gong group that they are not allowed to meditate there starting in November, when APEC starts. Mingguo Sun/The Epoch Times
Matthew Robertson
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/DSC_6407.JPG" alt="Falun Gong practitioner Gao Hongmei (center) meditates at Esplanade Park in a high traffic zone for Chinese tourists. Police have told the Falun Gong group that they are not allowed to meditate there starting in November, when APEC starts. (Mingguo Sun/The Epoch Times)" title="Falun Gong practitioner Gao Hongmei (center) meditates at Esplanade Park in a high traffic zone for Chinese tourists. Police have told the Falun Gong group that they are not allowed to meditate there starting in November, when APEC starts. (Mingguo Sun/The Epoch Times)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-1825547"/></a>
Falun Gong practitioner Gao Hongmei (center) meditates at Esplanade Park in a high traffic zone for Chinese tourists. Police have told the Falun Gong group that they are not allowed to meditate there starting in November, when APEC starts. (Mingguo Sun/The Epoch Times)
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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