BEIJING, NOV 19: Four women from Hong Kong have been deported from the Chinese mainland after being arrested for displaying a Falun Gong banner, a report said on Friday.Chinese police detained the four after they displayed a banner reading `Falun Gong religion is righteous' for about three minutes in the Tiananmen Square here on Wednesday during the visit of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The four women, one holding New Zealand passport, were deported on Thursday.The women were taken to a hotel and then transferred to a detention centre where they were detained overnight but not badly treated, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported.Police confiscated the women's home-visit permits and told them they were barred from returning to the Chinese mainland. They were escorted on to two separate Hong Kong-bound flights.The 60-year-old New Zealand passport holder was identified only as Liu.Two men from Shenzhen city in mainland China were arrested with them but their whereabouts were unknown, the report said.The Falun Gong sect has been banned in China since July 22 and the parliament recently passed a law outlawing all cult organisations.
