HONG KONG, Jan 31 (AFP) - An Australian Falungong member on Friday claimed she had been held incommunicado in a hotel in southwestern China's Chengdu city for weeks by police wanting to know more about her activities.
Nancy Chen, 35, who was put on a flight to Hong Kong late Thursday after her release, said she was followed shortly after she arrived in Chengdu on January 21 for a visit to see her parents in Yibing town.
Chen, a member of Falungong spiritual group, which is banned in China [..said] that eight undercover officers followed her whereever she went in Chengdu, even "in the toilet" that day.
"I managed to break away from them by taking a taxi to the US consulate for assistance," Chen said while enroute to Sydney.
The mother of a six-year-old girl said a US consulate officer allowed her into the mission to make phone calls to her family informing them she was being tailed by police, but would not let her seek refuge.
There is no Australian mission in Chengdu.
Chen said she was held at her hotel the next day after she tried to book a flight back to Sydney via Hong Kong.
"I was treated like a criminal by them," said Chen, adding she was repeatedly asked who sent for her, what she was doing in Chengdu and whom she was meeting.
"They also questioned me about my trip to Chengdu two years ago," she said. She had then met local Falungong practitioners.
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