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Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have gone on trial in China, charged with hacking into a cable television network and broadcasting pro-Falun Gong messages.
The Chinese state news agency, Xinhua, said television services in the cities of Changchun and Songyuan in north-east China were suspended for up to four hours in March this year.
Fifteen Falun Gong practitioners are now on trial in Changchun on charges of sabotage and organising a cult.
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