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Three United States green-card holders and Falun Gong members who arrived in Hong Kong on Monday after being detained in Shenzhen protested outside the Xinhua office yesterday.

 Dr Feng Lili, Alicia Chen Zhao and Huang Yun, who were held for 13 days at the Futian Detention Centre, practised Falun Gong outside the news agency's Happy Valley headquarters.

 They put up a banner saying what Falun Gong preached should be considered a legitimate creed on the mainland.

 The three were detained after meeting Falun Gong members in Shenzhen. Police accused them of disrupting social order and sent them to the detention centre.

  Dr Feng, a California-based immunobiologist, believed they were released because of pressure from the US Congress and the media.

 She and Ms Chen, a marketing manager from San Francisco, were kept in one cell. Mr Huang, a software engineer based in Silicon Valley, was locked up with other male inmates.

 Dr Feng said she and Ms Chen were ordered to make combs during their detention. Mr Huang had to clean cells.

 'We were taken to a cell to stay with about 38 other criminals who looked like drug traffickers,' Dr Feng said. 'There was only one bed in the unit, no chairs and no tables. The only toilet was in the living room.

 'We were not allowed to wear shoes or to get more clothes from my family members although the temperature was just two degrees.

 'When I think of other mainland members who have been beaten up by the police, my suffering seemed little.'  The three intend to return to the US today.



US trio takes outrage to Xinhua