Country: Ireland
Name: Brian Trought, 23, Master student in University College Cork
Location of incident: Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
Description:
Mr. Trought (middle of picture) participated in the first appeal on Tiananmen square, with 35 other westerners. While being forcefully lifted into a police van after beginning the appeal, police stamped on his legs several times to force them down.
Later, he walked away from the scene of the appeal, but was asked to go to Qianmen police station (a police station just off Tiananmen Square) in police custody for questioning. The film from his camera was exposed and he was questioned, with four others as to why he was visiting China.
While in detention in Qianmen station, Mr. Trought met three international journalists whom the police had also detained. Mr. Trought commented that “The journalists were there to have their footage inspected by police to ensure no details of the appeal, or the treatment of western Falun Gong practitioner during their arrests was documented.”
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